Dr. Denise Hammon is Vice President for Policy & Research with the Association
of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM), an organization of 60
colleges that provides advocacy for need-based financial aid for Massachusetts students.
Dr. Hammon has twenty years in higher education policy and administration. (aicum.org) 

Her doctoral dissertation,"BEYOND THE POLITICS OF PAYMENT-IN-LIEU-OF-TAXES(PILOTS):
EMBRACING TOWN-GOWN PARTNERSHIPS TO BENEFIT SOCIETY," discusses town-gown frames.

Dissertation

Beyond the Politics of Payment-in-lieu-of-Taxes: Embracing Town-Gown Partnerships to Benefit Society (2009)

Residential taxpayers believe that private colleges, which are legislatively exempt from paying property tax, should...