Paul is the Principal of Percontor, and he is also a Professor in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. He has 20 years of experience in higher education, where he has worked in institutional research and as a researcher with the National Survey of Student Engagement. For the past 10 years he has been a faculty member teaching courses on a range of statistical procedures, research design, higher education, policy analysis, and survey research methods.