Professor Roger Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
ROGER L. GEIGER is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University and former Head of the Higher Education Program. His most recent book, on universities and economic development with co-author Creso Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth, was published by Harvard University Press (2008). Additional writings on this subject are provided at http://www.tappingtherichesofscience.info.
He is also an editor of The Future of the American Public Research University (2007), where he contributed, "Expert and Elite: the Incongruous Missions of Public Research Universities". His study, Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace was published by Stanford University Press in 2004.
His volumes on American research universities in the 20th century, To Advance Knowledge: the Development of American Research Universities, 1900-1940 and Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities Since World War II, were published in new editions by Transaction Publishers (2004). He has edited Perspectives on the History of Higher Education since 1993, and is Senior Associate Editor of The American Journal of Education.