Perry Patrick Email Address

Director of Policy, Research, and Data, California Student Aid Commission

The California State University is the largest system of senior higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, 50,800 faculty and staff and 479,000 students. Half of the CSU's students transfer from California Community Colleges. Created in 1960, the mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever changing needs of California. With its commitment to quality, opportunity, and student success, the CSU is renowned for superb teaching, innovative research and for producing job-ready graduates. Each year, the CSU awards more than 110,000 degrees. One in every 20 Americans holding a college degree is a graduate of the CSU and our alumni are 3.4 million strong.

Experienced educational data and research organization leader; managed all data, research, and technology functions for the two largest public higher education systems in the U.S. (California Community Colleges, California State University systems) and California's financial aid administration agency (California Student Aid Commission). Experienced group presenter and speaker/lecturer. Specialties: Educational data collection, leveraging and matching data with external entities, performance accountability reporting, relationship management, education policy analysis, data and information systems strategic planning.