Dr. William J. Goggin is the Advisory Committee's Executive Director. Prior to serving as the interim staff director in December 2004, Dr. Goggin joined the Advisory Committee as the senior staff economist in May 1988. He has nearly 30 years experience in higher education and student financial aid policy. He earned a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and a doctoral degree in economics from Iowa State University.
Ms. Janet L. Chen is the Advisory Committee's Director of Programs. Prior to joining the staff in December 2010, Ms. Chen worked as an analyst for Abt Associates Inc., a research and consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA, contributing to evaluations of federal programs serving post-secondary students. Before entering the field of higher education, she worked as a paralegal for three years at the Federal Trade Commission. She earned her master's degree in higher education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her bachelor's degree in social policy from Northwestern University.
Mr. Anthony Jones is the Advisory Committee's Director of Policy Research. Prior to joining the staff in February 2010, he worked for the U.S. Department of Education for nearly nine years in the Office of Postsecondary Education as well as in Federal Student Aid. Mr. Jones has also been a financial aid administrator at three colleges and universities, and has worked for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He holds a bachelor's degree in speech communication studies from UNC-Greensboro and a master's degree in adult education from Tusculum College. He is pursuing a PhD in higher education and has advanced to doctoral candidacy at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia.
Ms. Tracy D. Jones is the Senior Administrative Officer for the Advisory Committee. She joined the staff in January 1992, as the administrative assistant. Prior to joining the Advisory Committee, Ms. Jones was a program assistant for the National Science Foundation and a data transcriber for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In June of 2008, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Strayer University. In December 2011, Ms. Jones earned her MS in administration, specializing in organizational development at Trinity University.
Ms. Elizabeth R. Kurban is the Advisory Committee's Assistant Director of Policy Research. Elizabeth graduated in May 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education with an MSEd in Higher Education. Prior to her studies at Penn, Elizabeth earned an MA in cognitive science and a BA in psychology from the University of Delaware.
Dr. Jeneva E. Stone joined the Advisory Committee in January 2006 as Senior Writer. Prior to that, she worked as an editorial consultant to the Advisory Committee for over a decade, and taught at the high school and college levels. Dr. Stone earned a BA from Middlebury College, and a PhD in English Renaissance literature from Columbia University. In 2007, she completed an MFA from Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers and her poems and essays appear in a variety of literary journals. Dr. Stone is also the recipient of a 2012 MacDowell fellowship in nonfiction.
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
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