Comparative Perspectives on the Undergraduate Experience (3rd Annual SERU Research Symposium: May 1, 2009)

Comparative Perspectives on the Undergraduate Experience

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9 AM - 5 PM
friday, mAY 1, 2009
Lipman Room, BArrows Hall
university of california - berkeley

The Student Experience in the Research University Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold the 3nd SERU Research Symposium on Friday May 1, 2009 on the UC Berkeley campus.

The symposium will gather scholarly and policy oriented researchers to present papers focused on the undergraduate experience at major research universities. It is our goal to encourage research, analysis, and discussion on the current state of, and possible methods for improving, the undergraduate experience that results in publishable papers via the SERU Project or other scholarly and policy outlets.

Program Highlights

This year’s symposium will feature research papers and discussion on topics such as campus climate and diversity, student research engagement, various forms of student-faculty interaction, and measuring student learning outcomes and related accountability issues.

 In addition there will be three Panel Discussions:

• A student panel focused on issues of affordability and civic engagement chaired by D'Artagnan Scorza, University of California Student Regent 2008-09/UCLA
  
• An international panel on current research regarding the higher education experience in Asian universities in Japan, China, Taiwan, and other nations.
  
• A debate on the value of learning outcomes measures such as standardized tests and self-assessment including Professor Richard Shavelson (former Dean Stanford School of Education and past president of the American Educational Research Association), Christina Maslach (Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning UC Berkeley and professor of Psychology), Henry Braun (Boisi Chair in Education and Public Policy in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College) and moderated by Steven Brint (Professor of Sociology, UC Riverside and co-PI on the SERU Project and Consortium).
  

Register now and join your colleagues in Berkeley for the 2009 Annual SERU Research Symposium!

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About the SERU Project and Consortium:
The SERU Project is a collaboration between academic scholars and institutional researchers devoted to creating new data sources and policy relevant analysis to help broaden our understanding of the undergraduate experience and to promote a culture of institutional self-improvement. Based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, and led by a faculty and IR Research Team, the SERU Project has produced an innovative SERU Survey - a census and online survey administered regularly since 2004 to some 180,000 students at all nine of the University of California’s undergraduate campuses.

The SERU Project has recently formed a SERU Consortium that includes an initial group of AAU research universities. Each participating campus will administer the census and online SERU Survey of undergraduate students – a version of a survey currently administered at all nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system. A select group of major universities in other countries in Asia and Europe may also join the Consortium. The intent and design of the SERU Consortium is to form a critical mass of major research universities who are interested in both generating new institutional and comparative data and using it systematically as a tool for policy-relevant research and institutional self-improvement.

Faculty, graduate students, and institutional researchers are invited to attend the symposium to participate in the discussion and to learn of research opportunities using SERU Survey data.