My Washington Education: The Politics of Research

From the late 1970’s through 1990 I conducted numerous public policy related studies.  This post relates stories of how politics and research mixed and ended with my exile from Washington.  Only a distinct minority of studies in which I was involved are the subjects of the following stories. Research in Berkeley Disabled in Science NSF Grant: … Read more

Director of Statistical Support for the US Treasury

In 1982, while working for Applied Management Sciences, I took the lead on a project to provide statistical consulting services to the US Treasury.  In that capacity I directed a project for the Executive Office of the President to establish standards for the hundreds of US Government loan programs.  I directed a variety of additional … Read more

TIES

I worked at TIES (Teaching Innovation and Evaluation Services) as Director of Teaching Evaluation.  Provided a wide range of services including: Sociology- Summary reports on teaching evaluation, consulting for Distinguished Teaching Award, grant proposal preparation. Engineering-Questionnaire analysis for incoming student knowledge, data analysis for course evaluations. Computer Science-Self-paced course evaluation, support for a study of … Read more