• Writing a Financial Assessment Workbook for the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
• Developing Stanford University’s financial forecasting and trade-off model and having EDUCOM adapt it for over 100 other universities.
• Writing the software for a complete administrative package for an early Digital Equipment Corporation “mini-” computer.
• Publishing an analysis of institutional financial aid policy making for the American Council on Education.
• Researching budgeting and planning practices and their links and authoring the chapter on budgeting in the fifth edition of College and University Business Administration and a 2004 book from NACUBO on strategic thinking for the CFO.
• Producing an assessment of the financial condition of higher education for the National Center of Higher Education Statistics.
• Publishing through NACUBO an annual series of national comparative operating statistics for community colleges.
• Leading a project to move, re-engineer and merge two university business offices, including financial aid and bursar operations, from Florida and Colorado to Baltimore for the Online Higher Education division of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.
• Leading the team development of a new International MBA curriculum as division chairman based on business studies, organizational facilitation and multiple language competence.
• Producing a statistical analysis on the relationship of government aid policies and institutional pricing for the National Commission of Student Financial Assistance.

Nate Dickmeyer has been CFO at Johnson State College, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Teachers College of Columbia University, City College of the City University of New York and Mercy College of New York. He has been a project director for the American Council on Education and Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. He has taught at Johnson State, Stanford University, Teachers College of Columbia University and the Monterey Institute where he was also a division chair. He has been a member of over a dozen accreditation teams. He spent ten years as Director of Institutional Research & Assessment at LaGuardia Community College where he developed program assessment methodologies and studied barriers to student retention.

Nate Dickmeyer received a B.S. with high honors in Metallurgy from the Engineering College at Michigan State University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a PhD in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary Society and received the Neal O. Hines Publications Award for outstanding contributions to the NACUBO publications program.