LARRY L. LESLIE

Larry L. Leslie
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Higher Education, Senior Fellow-in-Residence
Ed.D., University of California, Berkeley
Larry L. Leslie is professor emeritus and was director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona for over 13 years. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in higher education finance and policy. Much of his work addresses the social investment and economic value of higher education and the economic benefits of applied market models. In addition to his frequent consulting work for colleges and university systems across the country and abroad, his expertise has been used by many state governments and agencies such as The World Bank, the National Science Foundation, and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. His work was recognized in 1995 with the Research Achievement Award of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Professor Leslie is also noted for outstanding doctoral teaching and advising: eight of his students have won national dissertation-of-the-year awards.
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