In this volume, scholars and practitioners come together to explore the important role of the SHEEO and its impact on issues of higher education access and opportunity. Chapters present historical investigations, original research, and reflections and advice for current and aspiring SHEEOs, state policy leaders, and students of higher education.

Contributors include Robert E. Anderson • Alisa Hicklin Fryar • Mary Fulton • James C. Hearn • Thomas D. Layzell • Paul E. Lingenfelter • Erik C. Ness • Richard G. Rhoda • William M. Zumeta

“This book includes practical advice, empirical investigations, and theoretical considerations, all about and directed to the SHEEO. I welcome this volume and consider it far past due.”
—From the Foreword by Robert E. Anderson, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association

“An invaluable resource for state higher education policymakers, scholars and students. It fills a gap in available literature on the history of state higher education executive officers and offers guidance for the role of SHEEO agencies in the future.”
—Aims C. McGuinness Jr., senior fellow, NCHEMS, Boulder, Colorado

“This book should be required reading for all who have the honor to sit in the SHEEO chair and those who aspire to do so effectively.”
—Kim Hunter Reed, Commissioner of Higher Education in Louisiana