Faculty Profile
David Breneman
University Professor, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Breneman served as Director of the Public Policy Program at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that he served as Dean of the Curry School of Education from 1995 to 2007.
He was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 to 1995, where he taught graduate courses on the economics and financing of higher education, on liberal arts colleges, and on the college presidency. As a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution he conducted research for a book, Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered?, published by Brookings in 1994. He was selected as the recipient of the 1999 Award for Outstanding Service from the Council for Independent Colleges for this work.
From 1983 to 1989, he served as president of Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college in Michigan. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at Brookings from 1975 to 1983, specializing in the economics of higher education and public policy toward education.
He attended the University of Colorado-Boulder as an undergraduate and earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
Publications
The California Master Plan: Influential Beyond State Borders?
“The California Master Plan: Influential Beyond State Borders?,” co-authored with Paul Lingenfelter, in Sheldon Rothblatt (ed.), Clark Kerr’s World of Higher Education Reaches the 21st Century: Chapters in a Special History (New York: Springer, 2012). read more »
Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization
Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, with co-authors William Zumeta, Patrick M. Callan, and Joni E. Finney (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2012). read more »
Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered?
Breneman, David W. 1994. Liberal arts colleges : thriving, surviving, or endangered? Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. read more »
U.S. Higher Education and the Current Recession
Breneman, David. “U.S. Higher Education and the Current Recession,” International Higher Education, No. 55 Spring 2009, pp. 2-3. read more »
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