Walter A. Brown, Ed.D.
Executive Director and Professor of the Executive Ph.D. Program in Urban Higher Education, specializing in higher education finance, strategic planning, and administrative issues within higher education.
Walter A. Brown, Ed.D.
Dr. Brown joined the faculty of the Executive Ph.D. Program (EPhD) in Fall 2006. A native of Maryland, he received his Ed.D. in Higher Education from The George Washington University, Washington DC, in 1995, and specializes in higher education finance, strategic planning and higher education administrative issues. Dr. Brown teaches higher education administration and theory, higher education futures and strategic planning, and finance of higher education.
Prior to joining the EPhD program, Dr. Brown was an assistant professor of higher education at The George Washington University, Instructor of Finance at Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, and Program Director at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington DC. He transitioned into higher education in the late 1980s after a career in the private sector working for three Fortune 100 New York corporations in the areas of finance and strategic planning (Bank of New York, Avon Products and PepsiCo Inc.). He also worked on Capitol Hill for the Committee on the Budget, United States House of Congress.
In his current role as Executive Director and Professor of Higher Education, Dr. Brown has successfully chaired in excess of twenty dissertations, advises a minimum of five doctoral students per academic year, edits the National Association of Student Affairs Professional Journal and directs the current and long term administrative activities of the EPhD Program. In addition, he serves as Chair of the University Graduate Curriculum Committee and is a member of the university Internal Review Board (IRB).
- Title
- Executive Director and Professor, EPhD in Urban Higher Education
- Joined EPhD
- Fall 2006
- College
- Education and Human Development
- Office
- (601) 979-2434
- Fax
- (601) 979-9213
Education, teaching, and experience
Areas of expertise: higher education finance, strategic planning and administrative issues within higher education.
Degrees earned
Courses taught
Prior appointments
Private sector — Fortune 100 corporations
Editorial and university service
Research interests and current projects
Dr. Brown’s primary research interests address the financial management of public and private four year institutions. The perspective is taken from those holding mid-level to senior-level positions in the administrative and academic areas of public and private four-year institutions. This is accomplished by:
- Providing an economic perspective of how the financing of higher education is juxtaposed with the economic cycle
- Identification and analysis of public and private revenue sources at the Federal, State and Local levels
- Analysis of tuition and student financial aid as a source of revenue
- Review of university sales and services as a source of revenue
- Identification and analysis of university expenditures
- Analysis of the accounting principles in relationship to its importance to the university budget process
- Exposure to university financial methods and practices
- Formation and implementation of university, department and program budgets
- Exposure to university debt financing options
- Exposure to university development activities and impact
- Exposure to endowment funds management
Dr. Brown’s secondary research interest is strategic planning. The need to understand, through empirical evidence, the process and possible outcomes from the use of strategic planning in higher education environments may be critical to the sustainability of many public and private four-year institutions. In addition, Dr. Brown addresses various issues in higher education administration.
Refereed publications
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