William Chance
is Executive Officer of the Northwest Educational Research
Center (NORED) and the nonprofit Washington Higher
Education Policy Center (WHEPC). He is a research consultant with
experience in most major aspects of education policy and
program analysis.
Both as a former state
higher education official in Washington and as a consultant,
Chance has worked with all types of education sectors,
public and private, two-year and four-year, academic and
vocational, K-12 through higher education. Present
specializations center on institution role and mission
refinements and alternative organization and program
delivery systems.
Research studies have
addressed statewide and institutional long-range planning;
governance structures; workforce training; postsecondary
education finance; roles and missions; the public policy
agenda; environmental scanning, economic development and
rural revitalization, and public school improvement.
Chance has worked closely
with institutions of higher learning, state higher education
boards, higher education associations, governors' offices,
state legislatures, local school districts, blue ribbon
commissions, citizens' groups, state departments of
education, foundations and others, in many states.
He is former Executive
Director of a blue ribbon higher education study commission
in Washington and a former Deputy and Interim Executive
Director of Washington's Council on Postsecondary
Education.
Chance also is a former
member of the research faculty of the University of
Washington, a past "Scholar in Residence" to the Western
Governors' Association, and author of the book entitled
"...The Best of Educations," which was prepared under the
auspices of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation.
He has a Ph.D. in Political
Science from Ohio State University. He resides in Olympia,
Washington with his wife, Alice, and their two golden
retrievers, Sadie and Sydney.
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