John Immerwahr is a senior research fellow at Public Agenda. He is also assistant vice president for academic affairs at Villanova University.

Dr. Immerwahr is the author of several previous Public Agenda reports on higher education, including Preserving the Higher Education Legacy: A Conversation with California Leaders (1995) and The Closing Gateway: Californians Consider Their Higher Education System (1993). In addition, he has authored and co-authored a number of other Public Agenda reports on education including the groundbreaking national study, First Things First: What Americans Expect from the Public Schools (1994) and, for the 1996 National Education Summit of the nation's governors and business leaders, Americans Views on Standards: An Assessment by Public Agenda (1996). Other state-specific studies written by Dr. Immerwahr include Committed to Change: Missouri Citizens and Public Education (1996) and The Broken Contract: Connecticut Citizens Look at Public Education (1993).