Laura Mellisa Cyr

Cyr's research focuses on public higher education funding as well as on issues of redistribution in tax policy, state politics, and grassroots communication strategies. Overarching themes in Cyr's writing include critiques of the neoliberal approach to education, threats to American middle-class education, and phantom savings as budgetary stop-gaps in public policy. She serves as Director of Strategic Projects for the University of Maine System and focuses on institutional policy and procedure.