A number of people have been instrumental in bringing this report to fruition. We are, first of all, grateful to Pat Callan and Joni Finney of the California Higher Education Policy Center for commissioning this study and for the advice and encouragement they have provided along the way.
We are also indebted to the American Council of Education for the opportunity to draw on a study of existing survey research on higher education. These findings were compiled in the Data Book on Public Perceptions of Higher Education (January 1993), prepared by James Harvey and Associates.
As always, we relied heavily on the support of our colleagues at the Public Agenda Foundation, including Deborah Wadsworth and Jean Johnson for overall direction, Jill Boese for editorial support, and Isa Simon for administrative support and production.
We are particularly grateful to the members of the Public Agenda's research staff. Ethan Gutmann and Greg Shaw helped both with the design of the survey instruments and with the analysis of the data; Greg Shaw also did a great deal of the work in developing the charts.