D. Bruce Johnstone

Donald Bruce Johnstone, also known as D. Bruce Johnstone, is an American educator who served as Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), headquartered in Albany, New York; and President of Buffalo State College,

Background and education

Johnstone was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and earned degrees in Economics

Johnstone resigned as Chancellor in 1994 after experiencing pancreatic cancer, and later, returned to education at University at Buffalo.

Accomplishments as SUNY Chancellor

Johnstone was the first SUNY System president to be named as a SUNY chancellor.

International endeavors

Johnstone currently serves as Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Higher and Comparative Education and Director of the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project at UB. The Project examines the worldwide responsibility change in higher education costs from taxpayers and governments to students and their parents. The Project has been active in sponsoring or co-sponsoring higher education financing conferences, internationally, in Moscow, Russia; Prague, Czech Republic; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Nairobi, Kenya; Wuhan, China; and Arusha, Tanzania.

Johnstone has been a consultant to the World Bank in Kenya, Romania, and Morocco. For Kenya, he headed a team on university finance reform there.

Following 2007, Johnstone has been an Erasmus Mundus lecturer at the Universities of Tampere, Finland and Oslo, Norway, speaking on topics in higher education administration. During 2007-2008, he was also the Distinguished Scholar Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program. This group is composed of 32 international and 12 American scholars who examine access to higher education through international viewpoints.

Professional interests and scholarship

Johnstone's interests include economics and finance in higher education. Additional interests are in the areas of student finance and loans; governance and leadership in higher education; international comparative higher education finance and governance; federal and state policies for higher education; college-level learning in high school; and learning productivity.

Johnstone has authored several books and many articles, mostly in the area of student finance. He has also written or edited books, book chapters, articles, and/or monographs. Other authorship topics have included student financial assistance policy; international comparative higher education finance; learning productivity; higher education's financial condition; and system governance.

Books

Johnstone, D.B., & Marcucci, P. (2010). Financing higher education in international perspective: Who pays? Who should pay? Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Johnstone, D.B, d’Ambrosio, M., & Yakoboski, P. (Eds.), (2010). Higher education in a global society. New York, NY/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Johnstone, D.B. (2006). Financing higher education: Cost-sharing in international perspective. Boston, MA: Boston College Center for International Higher Education; and Rotterdam, Holland: Sense Publishers. Texeira, P., Johnstone, B., Rosa, M.J., & Vossensteyn, H. (Eds.), (2006). Cost-sharing and accessibility in Western higher education: A fairer deal? Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. Johnstone, D.B. (1986). Sharing the costs of higher education: Student financial assistance in the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Sweden, and the United States. New York, NY: College Entrance Examination Board. Johnstone, D.B. (1972). New patterns for college lending: Income contingent loans. New York, NY, & London, England: Columbia University Press.