George Leef is the Director of Research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, a think tank located in Raleigh, NC. He earned his B.A. from Carroll College (WI) in 1973 and a J.D. from Duke University in 1977. From 1980 to 1989, he was a full-time faculty member at Northwood University in Michigan. Leef is the author of Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement (2005).