BOOKS

• Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2026).

• “Governing Large: How Public University System Boards Can Help Shape the Future of American Higher Education,” in Public University Systems: Leveraging Scale in Higher Education, James R. Johnson, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).

MAGAZINES and NEWLETTERS

• “The Trust in ‘Trustee,’ ” Inside Higher Ed, September 9, 2025.

• “The Presidential Residence: Can This House Be a Home?”, Trusteeship (May/June 2024).

• “Investing in Partnerships, Community, and Student Success,” Trusteeship (March/April 2024).

• “A Wake-Up Call,” Trusteeship (September/October 2023).

• “A Senior Administrator Describes the Role of His Dogs in His Career,” Inside Higher Ed, October 28, 2021.

• “Get a Job and Get a Life with James Joyce—Why Reading the ‘Jocoserious’ Joyce is Useful Fun,” Liberal Education (Winter/Spring 2020).

• “Common Sense on Colleges and Workforce Development,” Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2019.

• With Penny MacCormack and David G. Brailow, “Creating Value,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, (July 2019).

• With Richard Novak, “A Winter of Discontent: Tax Policy, Trust, and the Future of Higher Education, Trusteeship (January/February 2018). 

• “Too Big to Fail,” Trusteeship (January/February 2017).

• “What Should Boards Know about Teaching?”, Trusteeship (September/October 2016).

NEWSPAPERS

• “Public Does Not Support the President’s Assault on Higher Education,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 1, 2025.

• “Trump and Harvard Draw Headlines, but UW Is Also Imperiled by DOGE Cuts,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 28, 2025.

• “Watch Out for AI-driven Disinformation in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin State Journal, February 6, 2024.

• “Four Principles to Keep Our Democracy Strong,” Wisconsin State Journal, August 9, 2023.

• “In 1918, the University of Wisconsin’s Expertise and the ‘Wisconsin Idea’ Proved Crucial in Fighting a Pandemic,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 9, 2020.

• “There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Model for Student Success,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 20, 2018.

• “What We Can Learn from America’s Irish Immigrants,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 10, 2017