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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. An encounter with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, the renowned education researcher at Stanford University, led to Vasquez Heilig being hired as her researcher while completing his Ph.D.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico, in 1998, and his doctorate in economics from Texas A&M University in 2003. His work has appeared in The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.