Nate serves as a consultant to HCM Strategists on higher education policy, funding, and student success issues. He has worked in education policy, planning and institutional research at the national, state, and institutional levels.
Nate served for five years as executive director of planning and analysis for the State University System of Florida in the office of the chancellor. He facilitated the first statewide strategic plan for the Board of Governors after it was created in the Florida Constitution in 2003. He also served as associate director of institutional research at the University of Florida and as a policy analyst in Florida’s nationally-recognized Office of Articulation, where he helped develop policies related to inter-sector transfer, high school graduation standards, and college admissions.
Nate serves as the Lumina Foundation’s external higher education productivity adviser to the state of Tennessee, and is the leader of a Lumina-sponsored “strategy lab” on student incentives to complete courses and programs. He has also served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on measuring higher education productivity.
Nate grew up in Oregon. He earned his bachelor's degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and his Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University.
Nate lives in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife, Aimée Boutin, who is an associate professor in the modern languages department at Florida State University, and his two elementary-aged children, Alex and Zita.