BRYAN J. COOK is the Director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the American Council on Education (ACE). Dr. Cook designs and conducts in-depth analyses on current higher education topics and emerging federal policy issues in support of ACE’s legislative agenda. Most recently Dr. Cook has done extensive work on the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and The American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Dr. Cook has managed several ACE initiatives including a three year project that looked at ways of ensuring academic success for low-income adults and a two year project focused on programs and services for military servicemembers and veterans in higher education. Dr. Cook has authored publications and/or presented on a wide array of higher education topics including higher education diversity, student enrollment and persistence trends, educational attainment, financial aid, college finance, and federal reporting requirements.

Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He received his B.A. in urban planning from Miami University in Oxford, OH.