Governance Science
Institutional accountability, constitutional governance, distributed responsibility, and governance architecture.
Research at a Glance
Five connected research domains
The portfolio is organized around recurring questions of governance, human agency, evidence, institutional design, and responsible technology.
Faithful Intelligence
Human–AI pedagogical collaboration, ethical governance, learning formation, and digital responsibility.
AI-Readable Scholarship
Governed machine-readable editions, evidence relationships, manifests, retrieval, and semantic reconstruction.
Education & Leadership
Christian leadership, learning systems, doctoral research, educational practice, and scholarly development.
Applied Policy Research
Estate planning, senior housing, community policy, institutional trust, and evidence-generating operational research.
Flagship Contributions
Research explained at two levels
Formal concepts remain intact while plain-language summaries make the work easier to enter for non-specialist readers.
Faithful Intelligence Theory
A theory of human–AI pedagogical collaboration centered on human agency, ethical governance, and learning formation.
In plain language: How can people use AI to improve learning without surrendering judgment, responsibility, or ethical control?
Governance Science
A developing body of work examining how institutional structures distribute authority, accountability, evidence, and control.
In plain language: How should organizations be designed so responsibility is clear and governance can actually be tested?
Whiteside Literature Review Standard
A constitutional framework treating scholarly evidence as a governed intellectual asset rather than temporary writing material.
In plain language: Research sources should remain traceable, reusable, and governed after a paper is finished.
AI-Readable Editions
A governed publication architecture for supplying authoritative machine-readable representations alongside canonical scholarly editions.
In plain language: Publishers should tell machines what a work is, how it is structured, and what is authoritative instead of forcing AI systems to reconstruct it.
Latest Scholarly Activity
Recent verifiable activity
Current highlights are surfaced here; the full record remains available in the governed CV and evidence archive.
Doctoral Research
Dissertation-in-Praxis: implementation is now being documented as a governed evidence sequence.
Follow the research problem, governance constructs, applied praxis, defense preparation, and weekly public Governance Updates through a dedicated dissertation record.
Applied Scholarship
See how research and governance frameworks move into governed practice.
The Applied layer preserves implementation evidence separately from the dissertation and cross-links material relationships.
Evidence CV Pilot
A CV that can show the evidence behind its claims.
The Education pilot links degree, academic-history, and university-service claims to governed evidence with visible verification states and stable IDs.
From Procedure to Understanding: Predicate Knowledge, Apparent Procedural Competence, and the Robustness of Mathematical Performance in Algebra I
Read on SSRN →AERA 2027 Annual Meeting review cycle: two reviews completed; one pending as of Aug. 19, 2026.
View service record →22 scholarly papers · 718 downloads as of Aug. 20, 2026.
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