John V. Lombardi

• "Epilogue: History and Our Heroes--The Bolívar Legend" and "Beginning to Read about Bolívar" in Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, eds. David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) (pp. 159-191).
• Humes, L. R. (2008). "Perspectives on the Progression of Learning in Higher Education: An Interview with John Lombardi." IMS Global Learning Consortium Series on Learning Impact. 25 January 2008.
• "How Long Can I Last?" in Presidential Transitions: It's Not the Position, It's the Transition by Patrick H. Sanaghan, Larry Goldstein, and Kathleen D. Gaval (Praeger, 2007, imprint 2008).
• "Introduction: Columbus and the Encounter," "Introduction: The New Nation" in The Jay I Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2007), pp. 55-56, 199).
• "On the Research Library: A  Comment" (in Proceedings of the Library Assessment Conference, September 25-27, 2006, Charlottesville, VA).
• Reality Check: The Blog. Initiated in Inside HigherEd, April 1, 2007-.
• Introduction of Dr. John F. Schwaller as the Fifteenth President of The State University of New York at Potsdam, April 20, 2007.
• Reality Check. On Large Scale Student Databases Inside HigherEd, April 20, 2007.
• Reality Check. The Benefit of Many Winners. Inside HigherEd, February 1, 2007
  reprinted in The NCAA News, 2/26/07.
• "The Changing Competitive Context for Research Universities," Internationally competitive Universities," Universiti Malaya, INPUMA (International Institute of Public Policy and Management), The Star, Public Affairs Section-United States Embassy, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, January 12, 2007.
• "The Significance of Leadership and Governance in the Design of Internationally competitive Universities," "The Significance of Leadership and Governance in Measuring Performance for Internationally Competitive Universities," Managing Universities for the Future, Universiti Malaya and INPUMA (International Institute of Public Policy and Management), Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, January 11, 2007.
• Reality Check. Research Competition and the MLA. Inside HigherEd, January 11, 2007.
• Reality Check. The Failure of Critical Thinking. Inside HigherEd, December 12, 2006.
• Reality Check. Comparing Wal-Mart and Tiffany. Inside HigherEd, November 9, 2006.
• Reality Check. Regulating the New Consumerism. Inside HigherEd, September 28, 2006.
• "Improving Graduation Rates: A Simple Method That Works," Change, 38:4 (2006), 44-58 by Elizabeth D. Capaldi, John V. Lombardi, and Victor Yellen.
• New Mexico Council of University Presidents, Planning Meeting, Opening and Summary Statement with a National Perspective, July 25, 2006, Hyatt Regency Tamaya, Santa Ann Pueblo, New Mexico.
• Reality Check. Virtues and Vices of 'Value Added.' Inside HigherEd, August 10, 2006.
• Reality Check. The Value of Commission Reports. Inside HigherEd, July 18, 2006.
• Reality Check. Public and Private: What’s the Difference? Inside HigherEd, March 6, 2006.
• Invited participant, ACE Roundtable. Competition in Higher Education: Market Pressures, Public Purposes, and the Costs of Doing Business, ACE, Washington, DC, March 1, 2006).
• Reality Check. Can We Learn the Hard Languages. Inside HigherEd, January 16, 2006.
• Invited participant, U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education, US Department of State, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, January 5-6, 2006).
• Reality Check. Paying for the Research Juggernaut. Inside HigherEd, December 15, 2005.
• North East Association for Institutional Research, 32nd Annual Conference, "The Race
  For Answers: Clarity Versus Information Overload", Keynote speech, Saratoga, NY., November 11, 2005.
• Reality Check. Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget. Inside HigherEd, November 11, 2005.
• Reality Check. We're All Getting Better. Inside HigherEd, October 17, 2005.
• Reality Check. Trustees and Tenure. Inside HigherEd, October 7, 2005.
• Reality Check. Should Our Students Study Chinese? Inside HigherEd, September 16, 2005.
• Reality Check. Students Read Less. Should We Care? Inside HigherEd, August 23, 2005.
• Reality Check. The Faculty Salary Game. Inside HigherEd, August 4, 2005.
• "Pedro Grases (1909-2004)," Hispanic American Historical Review (85:3, 2005), 385-387.
• Reality Check. Rearranging the Deck Chairs. Inside HigherEd, July 15, 2005.
• Reality Check. Grade Inflation and Abdication. Inside HigherEd, June 3, 2005.
• Reality Check. Equalizing Merit and Economic Opportunity. Inside HigherEd, May 19, 2005.
• Reality Check. Accountability, Improvement and Money. Inside HigherEd, May 3, 2005.
• Reality Check. Fuzzy Numbers. [student/faculty ratio] Inside HigherEd, April 15, 2005.
• Reality Check. Luxury, Subsidy and Opportunity: Purchasing a Quality Education. Inside HigherEd, March 28, 2005.
• Reality Check. Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR. Inside HigherEd, March 14, 2005.
• Reality Check. Who Gets In. What It Costs. Inside HigherEd, February 28, 2005.
• Reality Check. Missing the Mark: Graduation Rates and University Performance. Inside HigherEd, February 14, 2005.
• Reality Check. The Enemy Is Us: Cost Reduction in College Sports. Inside Higher Ed, January 31, 2005.
• "Los esclavos en la sociedad," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia: Sesquicentenario de la abolición de la esclavitud en Venezuela (1854-2004) (87:345, 2004), p. 129-140. Reprint from La decadencia y abolición de la esclavitud en Venezuela, 1820-1854, Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1974, p. 159-174, listed above.
• Gannett Lectureship Award, Presented to John V. Lombardi, PhD by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Spring Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 28, 2004.
• "Independencia y esclavitud en el período de transición de 1750-1850" in La crisis estructural de las sociedades implantadas; Director, Germán Carrera Damas; Codirector, John V. Lombardi (Vol V, Historia General de América Latina; Paris: UNESCO, 2003, pp. 365-382).
• "Competing for Quality: The Public Flagship Research University," Reilly Center Public Policy Fellow, February 26-28, 2003. The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. Louisiana State University.
• "Prologue: Venezuela's Permanent Dilemma," in Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds., Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003)
• "Palabras mágicas e interpretaciones divergentes" Asociación Fulbright de Venezuela, Caracas, September 26, 2002. [English version: "Magic Words and Divergent Interpretations" Fulbright Association of Venezuela]
• "Statewide Governance: The Myth of the Seamless System," AAC&U peerReview (Spring 2001) 20-21.
• "Quality Engines: The Strategic Principles for Competitive Universities in the Twenty-First Century" [English version of: "Generadores de Calidad: Los Principios Estratégicos de las Universidades Competitivas en el Siglo XXI." Presented at the Simposio Evaluación y Reforma de la Educación Superior en Venezuela, 15 y 16 de Marzo de 2.001. Sala "Francisco de Miranda" Biblioteca Central, Universidad Central de Venezuela]
• "The Invention of Venezuela within the World System: The Century of Transition, 1750-1850," Conferencia "José Gil Fortoul" Academia Nacional de la Historia, Caracas, October 26, 2000.  "La invención de Venezuela en el marco del sistema mundial: el siglo de transición, 1750-1850," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, (83:332, 2000, 3-33), also included in Venezuela en la época de transición (2002) listed above.
• "How Classifications Can Help Colleges," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2000.
• "Academic Libraries in a Digital Age," 20/20 Vision for the Future, Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), University Libraries Section Chicago, July 8, 2000. Published in: D-Lib Magazine (October 2000, Volume 6, Number 10) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/lombardi/10lombardi.html]
• "History and our Heroes-The Bolívar Legend," Perspectives on Simón Bolívar: A Symposium organized by the John Carter Brown Library on the occasion of the dedication of the Maury A. Bromsen-Simón Bolívar Room (March 13, 2000)
• "University Improvement: The Permanent Challenge,"  University of South Carolina, February 2000.
• A Decade of Performance at the University of Florida, 1990-1999. Gainesville: University of Florida Foundation, 1999, by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi.
• "Capturing Opportunities," Today (24:2, June 1999).
• "Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies." The Chronicle of Higher Education  Point of View (4/16/99 )
• "The Undergraduate Experience," Today (24:1, March 1999).
• "UF's Future Course: Quality and Productivity,"Gainesville Sun (Sunday, January 3, 1999).
• "UF Launches Graduate Fellowship Initiative," Today (23:4, December 1998).
• "Growth and Quality: Tracking Student Numbers at UF," Today (23:3, September 1998), 2.
• "Free Markets and Competition: Taking Public Universities into the 21st Century," Impact (3:1 Summer 1997), 15-17.
• In Support of Teaching, Research and Other University Activities: The University of Florida Bank, University of Florida, Office of Academic Affairs, 1997. An earlier version under the same title in Today (June 1997).
• Measuring University Performance: The Series. Occasional papers published by the Office of Institutional Research, University of Florida. Current issues on State Support, Teaching, Classrooms, Research, and Excess Hours (1995), Transfer Students, Research Benefits, Student Quality, Financial Aid, and Costs (1996), and The Bank, The Ph.D. (1997) by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi
• "The Doctors, the Hospital, the University, and the President:  War and Reconciliation in American Academic Health Centers,"  John J. Conley Lecture for the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 11, 1997.
• "Editor's Page: Lombardi," interview by John F. Berry, Florida Trend Economic Yearbook, (April 1997), 174.
• "Students, Universities, and Graduation Rates: Sometimes Simple Things Don't Work," by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Ideas in Action, Florida TaxWatch, (IV:3, March 1997).
• "Learning to Count in Higher Education," The Washington Post, January 8 1997, A25.
• "Accountability and Quality Evaluation in Higher Education," by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi, in David S. Honeyman, et al., A Struggle to Survive: Funding Higher Education in the Next Century (Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 1996) pp. 86-106.
• "Universal Tracking and the Student-Centered University," Today (University of Florida National Alumni Association Magazine) (December 1996) 2.
• "Verbatim" Comments by John V. Lombardi at the Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education, in NASULGC Newsline, (5:8, September 1996).
• The Accountability Handbook from the University of Florida (1996) by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi. (Includes Measuring University Performance occasional papers plus Florida Quality Evaluation Project, and Performance Based Budgeting.)
• "Teaching as a Priority: A Promising Program at the University of Florida," College Teaching (Fall 1995, 43:4, 134-138) by Dorene D. Ross, Carl S. Barfield, Elena S. Campbell, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, and John V. Lombardi
• "Killer Applications, The Net, and The Wild, Wild West," Florida Government Technology Conference, October 10, 1995.
• "Not Even in Cyberspace Can We Get a Free Lunch," Tallahassee Democrat, October 6, 1995.
• "Teaching," Innovator: New Directions in Teaching and Learning, University Center for Excellence in Teaching (University of Florida, Fall 1995), 1,4.
• "Life, Liberty and Lost Faith," Forum, The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, (Summer 1995) 5.
• "Restructuring the University," Focus (University of Florida, Spring 1995)
• "President's Pundit," Voice and Vision of the Florida Campus Compact, 3:1 (Spring 1995)
• "The Public-Private Partnership for Public Higher Education: Restructuring Public University Financing," UF Digest, The Independent Florida Alligator, January 25, 1995.
• "Juan de Castellanos: estudio de la "Elegías de varones ilustres de indias," by Isaac J. Pardo," review in Hispanic American Historical Review, 74:2 (1994) 321-322.
• "Dealing with Hate on Our Campus," Independent Florida Alligator 87:104, February 2, 1994.
• "Fact and Imagination," in Graduate Study in History, Department of History, University of Florida, 1993.
• "A Changed World: NASULGC's Commission on International Affairs and the Post-Cold-War Era," Washington, DC: NASULGC, November 1993.
• "A Reality Check on Cyberspace: Projecting the University into the Network" Statewide High Technology Conference, Tallahassee, October 1993. (Reprinted as: "Point of View", The Chronicle of Higher Education (1994); The Edutech Report, The Education Technology Newsletter for Faculty and Administrators, March 1994, 9:12; and "Campuses need not wait to enter cyberspace," Museletter (University of Florida, College of Fine Arts: Nov/Dec 1994, 4-5,16).
• "Teaching Quality and Productivity: Rewards and Incentives," A Program for the State University System, Draft by the University of Florida, 1993 (no author recorded. prepared by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi).
• "Change is at the heart of a university's success," Guest Columnist, The Gainesville Sun, August 23, 1993.
• "...And Now a Word from the President," The Library and Its Friends (Gainesville, Florida) 39:2 (1993), 11.
• "The Continuing Commitment," Spring 1993 Schedule of Courses, University of Florida.
• University Mission, Quality, and Performance. The Florida Quality Evaluation Project, by John V. Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi (Gainesville: University of Florida, 1993)
• "Mexico and the United States in the World: The Challenge of Competition," Indiana Commission on the Humanities, Conference, Notre Dame, March 1993.
• "International Affairs and the Post-Cold War Era," NASULGC Newsline (March 1993, 2:2, 5).
• "Waging War: The Arts and Sciences, The University, and the People," 1992 Conference, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Tampa. Published in: CCAS Newsletter, November-December (13:6, 1992). Also published in slightly revised form as "Point of View: With Their Accounts in Order, College Can Win Back Their Critics," Chronicle of Higher Education, February 17, 1993, A40 and under the title "Can Academics Fight Back? Yes, But they must play straight with the numbers," Tallahassee Democrat, March 14, 1993, B1,B5; and again in the University of Utah alumni magazine Continuum (Summer 1993).
• "Is There a Pain So Bad, it Won't Build Character?" Focus (University of Florida, Fall 1992 1:1, 4).
• "What's Going On," (Letter to the University of Florida community, February 20, 1992).
• "Manuel Pérez Vila (1922-1991)," Hispanic American Historical Review, 72:1 (1992), 103-105.
• "Elegant Artifact or Auxiliary Enterprise: Universities' Presses", Scholarly Publishing, A Journal for Authors & Publishers, Vol. 23, No.2, January 1992.
• "Sports Medicine", The Journal of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges, Vol.34, No. 1, January/February 1992 (version of item listed below).
• "Control, Accountability Are Gator Achievements," The NCAA News, 28:32 (September 16, 1991), 5.
• "Florida's Universities: Quality at Risk," Miami Herald (August 18, 1991), c1-4.
• "Science, Doctors, and the University: New Alliances for a Competitive Age," Preparing for Science in the 21st Century, Association of Academic Health Centers, 1991.
• "Teaching the Computer: A Decade of Dazzle", Florida Technology in Education Quarterly, Vol.3, 1991. (Also in Update, NERDC, SUS 19:5-6 (May/June 1991)
• "The University of Florida: Competition and Choices," Inaugural Address, University of Florida, October 1990. Published in Effective Oral Communication by Jimmy G. Cheek, Larry R. Arrington, and Max B. McGhee (Danville, Illinois: Interstate Publishers, Inc., 1995), p. 301-312.
• "¿Y, por qué Venezuela? Un americano del norte en busca de la historia de Venezuela," Cátedra Simón Bolívar, Conferencia Magistral, UNAM, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, November 21, 1989.
• "Stories of Foreign Language," Hemisphere, 1:3 (Summer 1989), 16-17.
• "On Teaching Language and Culture in America," in David M. Johnson, ed., Challenges for Continuing Higher Education Leadership: Global Interdependence: Issues and Opportunities. Washington: NUCEA, 1989, pg. 8-13.
• "Don Carlos Felice Cardot (1913-1986)," Hispanic American Historical Review, 69:1 (1989), 117-118.
• "Foreward" to The Conquest and Settlement of Venezuela, José Oviedo y Baños, trans. Jeannette Johnson Varner, Berkeley: University of California, 1987.
• "So, What's Your Major?" Baccalaureate Address, Indiana University Bloomington, College of Arts and Sciences, May 10, 1987.
• "What's Wrong with Latin America?", Business Horizons, March-April 1985.
• "Indiana University," in Earl L. Backman, ed., Approaches to International Education. New York: ACE/Macmillan, 1984, p. 103-117.
• "Simón Bolívar y el sueño de una América unida," USIA, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1983. 12 p.
• "Venezuela en la época independentista," UNESCO symposium, Bicentenario de Simón Bolívar, Caracas, July 1983.
• "The Social Order of Venezuela: Property, Society, and Authority in the Times of Bolívar, 1750-1850," Simón  Bolívar: Personalidad y alcance (ed. Wihelm Stegmann) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1984, p. 167-184.
• "Bases del órden social. Propiedad, sociedad, y autoridad en el siglo de transición venezolana, 1750-1850," Bicentenario de Simón Bolívar, Academia Nacional de la Historia, conference paper, Caracas, July 1983.
• "Can the United States Survive the Crisis in Central America," High School Honors Seminar, Indiana University, 1983.
• "The Crisis of Latin America", Panel, Valparaiso University, 1983.
• "Venezuela in the Modern Age", Notre Dame University, 1983.
• "Venezuela: The Twentieth Century Experience", University of Florida, Gainesville, Visiting Senior Scholar, 1982.
• "Venezuela in the Century of Transition", University of Florida, Gainesville, Visiting Senior Scholar, 1982.
• "Population Reporting Systems: An Eighteenth Century Paradigm of Spanish Imperial Organization" in David J. Robinson, ed., Studies in Spanish American Population History, Boulder: Westview Press, 1981, pp. 1-23.
• "On Teaching Language and Culture in America," in David M. Johnson, ed., Challenges for Continuing Higher Education Leadership: Global Interdependence: Issues and Opportunities. Washington: NUCEA, 1989, pg. 8-13..K. Hall, 1977.
• "La época de Abraham Lincoln en los Estados Unidos y la revolución democrática en Venezuela: un paradigma de desarrollo económico y humano," Caracas: Centro Venezolano Americano, 1980.
• "Population Reporting Systems: An Eighteenth-Century Paradigm of Spanish Imperial Organization," XLIII International Congress of Americanists, August 1979.
• "Venezuela in the Nineteenth Century: The Emergence of the Commercial Bureaucratic State," Latin American Center, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, May 1979.
• "The Rise of Caracas as a Primate City," in David J. Robinson, ed., Social Fabric and Spatial Structure in Colonial Latin America, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1978, pp. 433-472.
• "The Patterns of Venezuela's Past," in John D. Martz and David J. Meyers, ed., Venezuela: The Democratic Experience, New York: Praeger, 1977, p. 3-26. Revised edition published 1986, p. 3-31.
• "Population and Urbanization in Venezuelan History, Some Long Term Trends," Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois-Champaign, Public Lecture, November 1975.
• "Formation, Structure, and Dynamics of a Primate City: The Case of Caracas, 1560-1960," A Research Note in the Latin American Research Review, 2-10 (Summer 1975), with German Carrera Damas, pp. 135-138.
• "Caracas and the History of Venezuela," University of Delaware, Latin American Lecture Series, March 1975.
• "Comparative Slave Systems in the Americas: A Critical Review," in Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith, ed., New Approaches to Latin American History, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974.
• "The Abolition of Slavery in Venezuela: A Nonevent," in Robert E. Toplin, ed., Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974.
• Venezuelan articles in Helen Delpar, ed., An Encyclopedia of Latin America, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
• "Formation, Structure, and Dynamics of a Primate City: The Case of Caracas, 1560-1960," Seminario sobre Historia Urbana, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and UNAM, Mexico, 1974.
• "Historia y cuantificación," Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Departamento de Investigaciones Sociales y Departamento de Historia, UCV, May 1974 (Lecture Series).
• "Venezuela, 1830-1968," in Charles C. Griffin, ed., Latin America: A Guide to Historical Literature, Conference on Latin American History, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
• "Venezuelan Journals for Historians," CLAH Newsletter, 7:2, September 1971.
• "The First Venezuelan Coffee Cycle," Agricultural History, November 1970, with James A. Hanson.
• "Slaves and Society in Republican Venezuela: 1820-1854," 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Philadelphia, October 1970.
• "The Application of Computers to the Analysis of Census Data: The Bishopric of Caracas, 1780-1820," in Paul Deprez, ed., Population and Economics, Proceedings of Section V of the Fourth Congress of the International Economic History Association, 1968, Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press, 1970, with Trent M. Brady.
• "Manumission, Manumisos, and Aprendizaje in Republican Venezuela," Hispanic American Historical Review, XLXI, November 1969.
• "Sociedad y esclavos en Venezuela. La era republicana. 1821-1854," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, LII, Caracas, July-September 1969. Republished in the January-March 2004 issue of the Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia as part of the Sesquicentenario de la abolición de la esclavitud en Venezuela (1854-2004) [available online at http://www.anhvenezuela.org/admin/Biblioteca/Boletin%20No%20345/BOLETIN%20No%20345.pdf]
• "History and the Latin American Novel," Modern Language Association Meeting, Hispanic Area Studies, New York, December 1968.
• "Los esclavos en la legislación republicana de Venezuela," Boletin Histórico, Fundación John Boulton, XIII, Caracas, January 1967.
• "Los esclavos negros en las guerras venezolanas de la independencia," Cultura Universitaria, XCIII, Caracas, October-December 1966.
• "Fray Servando Teresa de Mier y el congreso mexicano constituyente," Armas y Letras: Revista de la Universidad de Nuevo León, Mexico, December 1964.
• "Mexico and the MLN," Claremont Quarterly, Summer 1963.