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• A national and international and comparative focus
• A focus on higher education policy issues unique to California and its different tiers of education
• A focus on the specific strategic issues important to the University of California

External Advisory Board

Lloyd Armstrong, former Provost, University of Southern California; Changing Higher Education blog

Richard Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California; Chancellor Emeritus, UC San Diego; former director, National Science Foundation

Robert Berdahl, Former President, Association of American Universities; Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; President Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel Boggan, Jr., former Senior Vice President, National Collegiate Athletic Association; former Vice Chancellor for Business and Administrative Services, University of California, Berkeley; former City Manager, Berkeley CA and Flint MI

Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, former Provost, and Harold Shapiro Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Daniel Fallon, former Program Director, Higher Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and former Provost, University of Maryland, College Park

John Gage, co-founder and former Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems; former partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers

David P. Gardner, President Emeritus, University of California; President Emeritus, University of Utah; former President, Hewlett Foundation

Manuel Gomez, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Emeritus, University of California, Irvine; former Vice President for Education Outreach, University of California

Katharine Lyall, President Emerita, University of Wisconsin system; Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Mary Metz, President Emerita, Mills College; former Dean of University Extension, University of California, Berkeley; former President, S. H. Cowell Foundation

Peter Schrag, former editorial page editor and columnist for the Sacramento Bee; author

Margaret Wilkerson, former Director of Media, Arts and Culture and Program Officer for Higher Education, The Ford Foundation; Professor Emerita, African-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Programs and Research Areas:

Center activities include research projects, seminars and conferences, and a visiting scholars program. Center publications include the Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), the Chronicle of the University of California, and other reports. The CSHE Library contains 1600 volumes with an emphasis on American, Californian, and international higher education; it is available for scholars and researchers to use on site. The Center also hosts the Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society.

Program emphasis is on the following research areas:

• Higher Education in the Digital Age
• Science and Technology Policy and Higher Education
• The Research University
• Policy Issues in California Higher Education
• University of California History