Thomas R. Bailey is the eleventh President of Teachers College, Columbia University. He has served on the College’s faculty for the past 30 years and is the George & Abby O’Neill Professor of Economics & Education. Dr. Bailey earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in labor economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An economist with specialties in education, labor economics, and econometrics, Dr. Bailey is widely regarded as one the nation’s leading authorities on community colleges. Since 1992 he also has been Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy at the College, and in 1996 he established the Community College Research Center at the College. His papers have appeared in a wide variety of education, policy-oriented and academic journals, and he has authored or co-authored several books on the employment and training of immigrants and the extent and effects of on-the-job training. Along with Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins, Dr. Bailey recently wrote *Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success*. Other books include *Defending the Community College Equity Agenda*, co-edited with Vanessa Morest, *Working Knowledge: Work-Based Learning and Education Reform*, co-authored with Katherine Hughes and David Moore; *Manufacturing Advantage*, written with Eileen Appelbaum, Peter Berg, and Arne Kalleberg; and *The Double Helix of Education and the Economy*, co-authored with Sue Berryman. Source: [Columbia University](https://www.tc.columbia.edu/president/biography/)