Mark Schneider is a vice president and an institute fellow at  American Institutes for Research (AIR) and president of College Measures. Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Schneider served as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics from 2005-2008. In 2013, the Chronicle of Higher Education selected him as one of the 10 people who had the most impact on higher education policy that year. Dr. Schneider is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and distinguished professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he developed and led one of the most productive departments in the nation. Dr. Schneider has been working on increasing accountability by making data on college productivity and the labor market success of college graduates more publicly available. To that end, he created www.collegemeasures.org.