Dr. Holcombe is a Research Fellow at the Ray Marshall Center. He has managed and conducted quantitative and qualitative research since 2008, working collaboratively with nationally recognized experts to improve education across the K16 continuum. Most recently, he served as Director of the Texas Higher Education Policy Institute, an in-house policy research center at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that provided critical input to policymakers in their efforts to meet the goals of the state’s higher education plan. Dr. Holcombe worked with stakeholders to identify critical research needs, developed action plans to respond to the identified needs, and presented results to stakeholders from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the state legislature, and the Governor’s Office. The areas of inquiry cut across the higher education spectrum, examples of which include improving developmental education, increasing participation and success among traditionally underrepresented groups, increasing efficiency and productivity, improving the effective distribution of state grant dollars, and developing a strategic model to estimate what higher education should cost.
Previous to his position at the Texas Higher Education Policy Institute, Dr. Holcombe managed and conducted numerous mixed-methods research and evaluation project at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas at Austin. He began his career in education as a secondary math teacher in El Paso, Texas. He was awarded his doctorate in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
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