Gary Pavela is Director of Judicial Programs at the University of Maryland-College Park, and edits the national quarterly Synthesis: Law and Policy in Higher Education as well as its sister publication, Synfax Weekly Report -- publications to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada subscribe.

     Pavela holds an M.A. in intellectual history from Wesleyan University, a law degree from the University of Illinois, and has been a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Behavioral Science and Law. He worked as a staff attorney for the State University of New York -- Central Administration, was a law clerk to the late Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and served as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. (the training arm of the United States Courts).

     Identified by the New York Times as an "authority on academic ethics," Gary Pavela is a member of the Advisory Board of the Kenan Ethics Institute at Duke University and is a past President of the National Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of two-hundred universities that collaborate on academic integrity policies and procedures.

     Pavela has been a consultant on legal issues and student conduct policies at many leading universities, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The University of California at San Diego, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, The United States Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Brown University, Colgate University, and Smith College.

     Gary Pavela is a NASPA "Pillar of the Profession." In 1995 he was awarded the American College Personnel Association "Tracy R. Teele Memorial Award" for "contributions to the area of judicial affairs and legal issues." In 1996 he received the "D. Parker Young Award" for "outstanding scholarly and research contributions in the area of higher education law and judicial affairs" from the Association for Student Judicial Affairs. In 1999 he was awarded the "Thomas S. Biggs Award" for "dedicated legal service" in the field of law and higher education, presented at the Twentieth Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

     Pavela was designated the year 2002 "Fellow" of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Fellows of the Association are identified as individuals who have "brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation." In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' "Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research Award."

Published references include:

1.  "a national expert on student judicial systems"
             -- September 29, 1996 Raleigh News Observer

2.  "an authority on student conduct issues"
             --June 21, 1989 Chronicle of Higher Education

3.  "an authority on academic ethics"
             --December 12, 1993 New York Times

4.  "the nation's foremost philosopher of student rights and responsibilities.
     Deeply moral and legally astute, his work has immeasurably improved
     student affairs policy and practice."
          --Frances L. Hoffman, Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, University
               of Missouri-Saint Louis. [Eastern Association of College Deans, 64th Annual Conference
               Announcement, November/December 1995].

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