Fieldon King Alexander is an academic researcher and professor of higher education funding and public policy. He also has served as a public university president at four institutions for two decades. He has been an invited expert witness in US Senate and US House of Representative Congressional hearings on numerous occasions and has contributed to many mainstream news sources such as The Financial Times, The Economist, The Hechinger Report, The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Politico, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Policy Matters and Inside Higher Education.