Kenneth E. Redd

Mr. Redd is an expert on student financial aid and enrollment trends in higher education who has focused his intellectual efforts toward understanding factors that lead to student success. He came to NACUBO in 2008 from the Council of Graduate Schools. Prior to that, he directed the research and policy analysis for five years at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He has also served as director of research at the USA Group Foundation (now the Lumina Foundation for Education) and as a senior research associate at Sallie Mae. He was a researcher and analyst at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Congressional Research Service. The Chronicle of Higher Education named Mr. Redd as one of ten up-and-coming "New Thinkers in Higher Education" in 2005. He is the author of several recent publications focused on graduate and professional student aid policies. His recent publications include Financing Graduate and Professional Education: 2003-2004, Financial Aid Awards and Services to Graduate/Professional Students in 2002-2003, and the widely cited Discounting Toward Disaster: Tuition Discounting, College Finances, and Enrollments of Low-Income Undergraduates.