Degree Production and Cost Efficiency: An Application of Stochastic Frontier and Spatial Analysis Marvin Titus Dr. Marvin Titus will present the first Education Policy Seminar for the 2015-16 academic year. He is associate professor of higher education at the University of Maryland. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and history from York College of the City University of New York, masters in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and doctorate in education policy, planning and administration from the University of Maryland. Prior to arriving at the University of Maryland, he worked as an economist for the US Virgin Islands Labor Department, economics lecturer at the University of the Virgin Islands, institutional researcher at George Mason University, policy analyst at the University System of Maryland, and assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Dr. Titus conducts research in the areas of higher education economics, finance, policy, and advanced quantitative techniques. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and as an associate editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Dr. Titus also serves as a consultant on the development of national postsecondary education surveys for the US Department of Education and educational longitudinal datasets for the state of Maryland. The title of his presentation is "Degree Production and Cost Efficiency: An Application of Stochastic Frontier and Spatial Analysis".
