Jeff is retired from KU where he most recently held appointments as Honors Teaching Fellow, assistant to Chancellors Gray-Little and Hemenway, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. He has served as a board member,  trustee or on the advisory board of numerous local, state, national and international organizations and is active in the Lawrence arts community. He has most recently served on the National Advisory Board of the Spencer Museum of Art, as a Trustee of Bishop Seabury Academy, as a member of the Endowment Board of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and on the Board of the University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities.