Education. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1962; A.B., cum laude, University of Redlands, 1955; Washington Semester, American University, 1954; AAAS-NSF Chautauqua Short Courses on Mathematical Modeling and Computing, 1973-74, on Patterns of Problem Solving, 1979-80, and on Hypermedia, 1993. Skills include survey research, statistical analysis, interviewing, institutional planning and evaluation, and computer simulation.
Teaching and Professional Service. Undergraduate and graduate courses in American government, elections and public opinion, Congress and the president, constitutional law, American political throught, and quantitative analysis at the University of Redlands, Utah State University, University of Saigon (Vietnam), Colgate University, University of Utah in Europe (Germany), National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), University of Mons-Hainaut and Interuniversity Master's Program, American Studies Center, La Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, and Humboldt State University. Academic Seminars, Washington Center, 2005, and Advanced Placement American Government at Junior Statesmen Summer School, Stanford University, 1989-93, 1995-2001, 2005. Faculty Fellow, College Board, 1990-1998.
Research and Scholarship. More than 50 monographs, articles, reviews, and papers on government, politics, and administration. Visiting Scholar on the Congress, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Director, Bureau of Government and Opinion Research, Utah State University; Research Director, Legislative Study Committee, Utah Legislature; and Associate Editor, Western Political Quarterly. Official Representative, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1991-present. Chair, California State University Social Science Research and Instructional Council, 1994-95.
Administration. Interim Vice President, Dean, Humboldt State University; Associate Dean, Utah State University; Assistant Dean, Colgate University; Department Chair, Utah State University. Prepared successful proposals and administered grants and contracts from U.S. Office of Education, American Assembly, Danforth Foundation, Utah Legislature, Utah Press; assisted in preparing successful grants from Rockefeller Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and U.S. Department of Education.
Community Service. Staff Director, Utah Legislative Study Committee, Utah Legislature; Chair, Logan City Commission on Government Organization; Vice President, Exchange Bank; Consultant, Utah Legislature; Elder, Presbyterian Church; President, Humboldt Connections for Children at Risk; Chair, Education Committee, Redwoods Chapter, American Civil Liberties Union.
Honors. Fellow, American Council on Education Academic Administration Program, Assistant Dean of Faculty, Colgate University, 1972-73; Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer, Committee on International Exchange of Scholars, Faculties of Law and of Letters, University of Saigon, 1964-65, L'Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, 2003. Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Foundation; Member, Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. Listed in Who's Who in America.