William M. Zumeta
William M. Zumeta
Professor of Public Affairs and Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1978
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 213
zumeta@u.washington.edu
206.543.0743
Areas of Specialization:
Policy Analysis and Implementation, Education Policy, and Education and the Workforce
William Zumeta joined the Evans School Faculty in Fall 1985. He served as associate dean from 2001-05, and acting dean from March-August in 1988.
Zumeta teaches in the areas of policy analysis and public policies toward education and higher education. His research interests focus higher education and worker training policies and higher education finance.
His research has been supported by a wide range of government agencies, foundations and national groups.
He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, University of California-Los Angeles, and the Claremont Graduate University.
Outside of academia, Zumeta has been employed by or consulted with various private and nonprofit organizations, universities, and federal, state, and local government agencies.
Zumeta holds a Ph.D. in public policy and a MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a BA in political science from Haverford College.
Curriculum Vitae (366 KB PDF)
Publications & Links
- "Financing Higher Education in Challenging Times" in The NEA 2007 Almanac of Higher Education
- California Community Colleges: Making Them Stronger and More Affordable from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, March 2007, with D. Frankle
- "The New Accountability: The Potential of Performance Compacts in Higher Education" in National CrossTalk 15, Winter 2007
- "Public Higher Education in Washington State: Aspirations Are Misaligned with Fiscal Structure and Politics" (127 KB PDF) in R. Ehrenberg's What's Happening to Public Higher Education?, Greenwood Press for the American Council on Education, 2006.
- "State Higher Education Financing: Demand Imperatives Meet Structural, Cyclical, and Political Constraints" (286 KB PDF) Chapter in E.P. St. John and M. D. Parsons' Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
- "Attracting the Best and the Brightest" (21 KB PDF) with Joyce S. Raveling
in Issues in Science & Technology, January 10, 2003
Course Syllabi
- PbAf 513: Policy Analysis, Fall 2007 (190 KB PDF)
- PbAf 537a: Higher Education and Public Policy, Winter 2008 (134 KB PDF)


