First, seeks to understand how leadership practices influence the multiple stakeholders in higher education. In this vein he has studied presidential communication, employee empowerment, and institutional decision making. Second, over the past four years he has assisted in the creation of a unique dataset that tracks over one million community college students through the STEM curriculum and also includes key measures of success. Through this line of work he hopes to answer questions regarding the role of community colleges in the production of STEM professionals and provide insight on how community colleges can better support students in these fields. He completed a PhD at the University of Michigan and holds a Masters from Stanford University and a BS from Southern Utah University.