D. Bruce Johnstone is a professor of higher and comparative education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the director of the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, and of the on-going International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project. From 1988 to 1994, Dr. Johnstone was chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) system prior to which he served for nine years as president of the State University College at Buffalo. A leading authority on the economics, finance and governance of higher education, Dr. Johnstone has published extensively on the economics of higher education, student finance, state and federal higher education policy, and international comparative higher education finance. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, Massachusetts; an M.A.T. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education; and a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Dr. Johnstone is a member of the Universities Project Advisory Committee.