Biography
William
Zumeta (U.S.A.), Ph.D.,
is Professor of Public Affairs (Daniel
J. Evans School) and Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies (College of Education) at the University
of Washington where he has been since 1985. He served as Associate Dean of the Evans School from 2001-2005.
During 2005-06 he will be on sabbatical leave as Senior Associate at
the National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in San Jose, California.
Zumeta holds MPP and PhD degrees from the Goldman School of Public Policy
at the University
of California, Berkeley. He has held full-time faculty appointments
at the University of British
Columbia and UCLA
and has also taught at the Claremont
Graduate University. Earlier, he worked in city and state government
and in the Philadelphia Public Schools. Zumeta's research focuses on
public policies toward higher education and its finance. He has published
studies of federal policies affecting graduate and postdoctoral education
in the sciences; factors and forces affecting state support of higher
education; state and federal accountability policies and higher education;
and the interaction of state and federal policies and private higher
education. These studies have been published in the Journal of Higher
Education; Review of Higher Education; Economics of Education Review;
Higher Education; Thought & Action; Science, Technology and Human
Values; and Issues in Science and Technology, as well as
in numerous books, chapters, monographs and reports. Zumeta's research
has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department
of Education, the Sloan Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Lilly
Endowment, the Pew Charitable Trusts, RAND, and a number of state and
interstate agencies and national associations. Among his latest publications
are: "State Higher Education Financing: Demand Imperatives Meet
Structural, Cyclical, and Political Constraints," in E.P. St. John
and M. D. Parsons (Eds.), Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing
Contexts and New Rationales, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004,
79-107; and "Accountability and the Private Sector: State and Federal
Perspectives," in Joseph Burke and Associates (Ed.), Achieving
ccountability in Higher Education: Balancing Public, Academic, and Market
Demands, Jossey-Bass, 2004, 25-54.
