Jeffrey C. Sun is Professor of Higher Education, Department Chair, and Project Director & Principal Investigator for the U.S. Department of Education’s Perkins funded project (in cooperation with the Kentucky Department of Education) on Career & Technical Education and the U.S. Department of the Army’s Master Educator Course (formerly Cadre & Faculty Development Course) grants and contracts. Dr. Sun has taught previously at the University of North Dakota, Teachers College of Columbia University, and New York University. Also, while at Teachers College, he served as the Director of Academic Administration.

At Louisville, Dr. Sun established the university’s first competency based education program, obtained more than $8 million in federally sourced grants and contracts, advanced new initiatives for career and technical education teachers, established a partnership with the U.S. Army on cadre/faculty development (via Cadet Command) and NCO leadership development (via Army University), and led projects that expanded his department enrollments by 46% within 3 years. He also serves as a member of the “Forward50”, which is a national thought-leadership group to advise Congress on the Higher Education Act.

Dr. Sun teaches and researches primarily in the areas of higher education law and policy. Dr. Sun’s research examines the extent to which policy instruments or other legal actions (e.g., government mandates, judicial decisions, and legally binding, negotiated agreements) advance or inhibit the academic operations through college teaching, learning, and knowledge creation. This stream rests heavily on concepts of civil rights and civil liberties and has been published in venues such as Cardoza Law Review, Education Law Reporter (Westlaw), Journal of College & University Law, Review of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law. In addition, Dr. Sun has four books.

Dr. Sun serves on the Executive Committee for the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Finance/Budget Committee. Dr. Sun received a BBA and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University, a law degree (J.D.) from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.