PRIMARY RESEARCH THEME:

Impacts of policy instruments and initiatives on academic conceptions of lehrfreiheit (“freedom of teaching”) and lernfreiheit (“freedom of learning”) especially in professional and career education settings. 

My research primarily examines the extent to which policy instruments or other legal actions (e.g., government mandates, judicial decisions, and legally binding, negotiated agreements) advance or inhibit the academic operations in terms of college teaching, learning, and knowledge creation.  This stream rests heavily on concepts of civil rights and civil liberties. 

In addition, my secondary research stream resides in professional/career education, particularly professional military education.  Within that domain, I typically examine barriers and supports within organizational and governmental policies as well as investigate and evaluate system designs and organizational improvement efforts.

Across these two research streams, my common inquiry revolves around topics that sit on the fringes of the academic core or relegated to the fringes from dominant groups, apply or draw on competency-driven contexts, and apply a liberating systems approach that present administrative or policy solutions.