"Performance Accountability as Imperfect Panacea: The Community College Experience" (with Esther Hong). In Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest (eds.), Defending the Community College Equity Agenda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=402

"It's Not Enough to Get Through the Open Door: Inequalities by Social Background in Transfer from Community College to Four-Year Colleges" (with Greg Kienzl). Teachers College Record, 108 (2006), pp. 452-487. http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=324

Community College Missions in the 21^st Century (edited with Barbara Townsend). New Directions for Community Colleges 136 (Winter 2006).

"Helping Students Enter and Succeed: Access, Success, and Accountability Policies in the Achieving The Dream' States" (with Monica Reid & H. Kenny Nienhusser), Community College Journal, vol. 77 (2006) pp. 42-47.  http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=456

State Policies to Achieve the Dream in Five States: An Audit of State Policies to Aid Student Access to and Success in Community Colleges in the First Five Achieving the Dream States (with Monica Reid & H. Kenny Nienhusser). Community College Research Center, Teachers College, 2006. http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=392  

Achieving the Dream in Ohio: State Policies Affecting Access to, and Success in, Community Colleges for Students of Color and Low-Income Students (with James W. Marshall & Andrea Soonachan). Community College Research Center, Teachers College, 2006.  http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=468

Achieving the Dream in Connecticut: State Policies Affecting Access to, and Success in, Community Colleges for Students of Color and Low-Income Students (with Monica Reid).  Community College Research Center, Teachers College, 2006.  http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=472

"Necessary but not Sufficient:  Higher Education Reform as a Strategy of Social Mobility"  (with David Karen). In Gary Orfield and Patricia Marin (eds.), Higher Education and the Color Line.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2005.

ASHE Reader on Community Colleges (associate editor).  3d ed. Pearson, 2005. http://www.pearsoncustom.com/best/053610137X.html

"The Uneven Distribution of Employee Training by Community Colleges: Description and Explanation." The Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science, vol. 586 (2003) pp. 62-91. http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=54

"The Evolving Role of the Community College: Policy Issues and Research Questions." In John Smart and William Tierney  (eds.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (Kluwer, 2002)

"Community Colleges and Contract Training: Content, Origins, and Impacts" (with Marianne Bakia). Teachers College Record 102 (February 2000). http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=55

"Mass Higher Education: What Is Its Impetus? What Is Its Impact?" Teachers College Record 99 (Fall 1997).

"The Implications of the Goals 2000 Legislation" (with Peter Hall). In Kathryn Borman et al. (eds.), Implementing Federal Legislation: Sociology and Educational Policy. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1996.

"Opportunity to Learn Standards: A Sociological Critique." Sociology of Education 68 (May 1996).

The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College (State University of New York Press, 1994). Winner of the Willard Waller Award of the American Sociological Association for best book in sociology of education in years 1994-1996.