Rate My Professor F. King Alexander

Alexander's research focuses on education finance, policy, and law. He has authored and co-authored key books such as The Law of Schools, Students and Teachers, Seventh Edition (West Academic Law Publishing, 2022), Financing Public Schools: Theory, Policy and Practice (Routledge, 2015), Maximizing Revenue in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2002), and The University: International Expectations (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002). His peer-reviewed articles include works in the Journal of Education Finance on federal funding impacts and student aid policies, such as "The Impact of Federal Funding on State Budget Priorities" (2023) and "Hard Educational Policy Lessons from Fifty Years of Federal Direct Student Aid Policies" (2022). He serves as Higher Education Editorial Board Director for the Journal of Education Finance (University of Illinois Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020-present) and Senior Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama Education Policy Center (2022-present), as well as Faculty Affiliate at Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute since 1998. Among his honors are the Stephen J. Trachtenberg Award for Leadership in Higher Education (2017), California State University President of the Year (2011-2012 and 2009-2010), and Alumni Hall of Fame inductee by Boys and Girls Clubs of America.