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Back to the Basics: In Defense of Achievement (and Achievement Tests) in College Admissions
Navigating Conflict Between Science and Government Policymakers – Past and Future
New College Catalog Study (CCS)
Universities, the US High Tech Advantage, and the Process of Globalization
No College Student Left Behind
SERU Project Launches Spring University of California UG Experience Survey
Principal Investigator Diane Harley, Ph.D., Senior Researcher. Research Associates: Sarah Earl-Novell, Ph.D., Sophia Krzys Acord, Shannon Lawrence Principal Investigator C. Judson King, Professor, Provost Emeritus and Director More information
Now Online: The University as Publisher
The University as Publisher: Summary of a Meeting Held at UC Berkeley on November 1, 2007. Diane Harley (ed)., Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) More information
Higher Education Accountability Measures Need to Take Into Account Two Cultures of Engagement
Scholars Offer a Reflection and Prospectus on Globalization and Higher Education in New CSHE Report
Call for Papers - SERU/UCUES Research Symposium, May 8, 2008, UCLA
An International Comparative Look at the “Crisis” of Public Higher Education among OECD Nations
“The U.S.’s development of highly productive public research universities and state systems of higher education has made it a world leader in research and education,” notes a new report generated by a host of noted scholars and university leaders. “Public universities remain a large social and economic force in the nation, but there are many signs that the international leadership of the U.S. in higher education is eroding,” they note. More information
October 10, 2007 – A new report provides analysis on the student experience at the nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California – the largest research university system in the US and one of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The report, A New Generation, provides insights into academic and civic engagement, with breakouts by racial and immigrant status, and is based on data from the Spring 2006 administration of the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey – a product of the Student Experience in the Research University Project based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley. More information
The United Arab Emirates: Policy Choices Shaping the Future of Public Higher Education, Warren Fox
June 19 2007 - A new study by Berkeley researcher Steve Chatman argues that the Spellings commission call for student engagement benchmarks will mislead college applicants and parents trying to choose the best school. Chatman reports that educational experience varies with academic area of major and that only comparisons made at the level of academic discipline are fair and valid. Campus-level statistics based on random samples, the standard method of current national surveys, may tell us more about the number of students in each major than about the quality of education received. More information
June 18 2007 - High-school grades are often viewed as an unreliable criterion for college admissions, owing to differences in grading standards across high schools, whereas standardized tests are seen as methodologically rigorous, providing a more uniform and valid yardstick for assessing student ability and achievement. More information
Final Report of the Commission on General Education in the 21st Century
A new book by CSHE scholar John Aubrey Douglass, The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities, published by Stanford University Press this month, offers the first comprehensive historical and contemporary examination of admission policies and practices at public universities and contrasts them with private institutions. More information
SERU/UCUES Symposium: Assessing the Undergraduate Experience in the Postmodern University
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold a one-day research symposium on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 on the Berkeley campus focused on the experiences and varied characteristics of students in the postmodern university. More information
We at CSHE mourn the loss of Martin Trow, long-time (1976-1988) Director of CSHE and pre-eminent scholar of higher education. Martin passed away on February 24th after an illness of several months. We shall much miss his kind spirit, his insightful scholarship, and his enormous presence among us. More information
The California Idea and American Higher Education Reissued in Paperback and Soon in Chinese
Stanford University Press has reissued The California Idea and American Higher Education in paperback. Authored by CSHE Senior Research Fellow, John Aubrey Douglass, the book offers a comprehensive political and policy history of California’s pioneering effort to create an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education. In addition, the Educational Science Publishing House based in Beijing will publish The California Idea this spring in Chinese with a special preface. More information
UC Berkeley Awarded A.W. Mellon Grant to Assess the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) of the University of California, Berkeley has been recently awarded a grant of more than $400,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue its research into the changing nature of scholarly communication and publication practices in the networked age. Capabilities afforded by new technologies, pressures associated with the purchasing power of library budgets, challenges to economic viability for university presses, and the pricing structures of the publishing industry make this research especially timely for the academic and publication communities at large. More information
Designed to assist policymakers and educational leaders, the report is part of a national study, “Four States and FIPSE: Defining Best Practices for Responsible Accountability Models in Higher Education.” Funding support for the study was provided by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). It identifies the components of a state-level higher education accountability system. David Leveille offers a national perspective on the growing number of accountability measures being developed in various states to then offer a series of recommendations related to California’s burgeoning higher education system. More information
Press Release: New Book on Merit and Worth in Cross Atlantic Democracies
The conflict between access and quality in education has been front-page news for decades, explains Sheldon Rothblatt in his new book, Education's Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800-2006 (Symposium Books: 2006). Rothblatt argues that the contemporary tension between access to education and the preservation of quality is merely another chapter in the much longer history of merit selection in England, Scotland and the United States and should be seen in its proper contexts. More information
Job Posting: Research Associate Position
Third Clark Kerr Lecture Series on the Role of Higher Education in Society, Fall 2007
Donald Kennedy, former President of Stanford University, now Editor of Science, will be the third Clark Kerr Lecturer. Donald Kennedy has since 2000 served as Editor of Science. From 1980 to 1992 he was President of Stanford University. Three 2007 Clark Kerr Lectures will be given by Kennedy, on October 23rd at the Irvine campus, and on October 31st and November 7th at the Berkeley campus. More information
The Student Experience in the Research University Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold a one-day research symposium on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 on the Berkeley campus. The SERU Project is fostering an ongoing research program on student life, culture, and perspectives and has developed the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES), an on-line census survey of all undergraduates at UC. More information
Press Release: Will We Need Affirmative Action in University Admissions in 25 Years?
December 4, 2006 - In US Supreme Court’s 2005 decision Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor conjectured that in 25 years affirmative action in college admissions will be unnecessary. In this working paper, economists Alan Krueger, Jesse Rothstein and Sarah Turner project the test score distribution of black and white college applicants 25 years from now, focusing on the role of black-white family income gaps. More information
December 1, 2006 - A new CSHE paper by sociologist Steven Brint notes that many leaders of public research universities worry about falling behind private research universities at a time when private university finances have improved dramatically and state support for higher education has declined. The author provides a more optimistic view of the competitive position of public research universities. More information
Martin Trow Receives Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award
Martin Trow's accomplishments recognized by the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award of the Association for the Study of Higher Education More information
New Study: Where Faculty Publish is Influenced By Perceptions of Relative Quality and Peer Review
October 2, 2006 - How and why do faculty make choices about where they publish? What factors color their attitudes about publishing in new electronic venues such as open access journals and blogs? According to an explorative study conducted at UC Berkeley, faculty are wary of electronic publishing venues primarily because they are associated with a lack of quality control through peer review. Instead, faculty tend to rely on tried and tested journals and publishers for their information needs. More information
September 14, 2006 - A new CSHE study that surveys state based high technology (HT) initiatives and the role of their research universities states, “Leading HT states rely heavily on their university sectors and a highly educated workforce, yet they are increasingly importing talent while neglecting investment in the education and skills of their native population.” In the research paper, “Universities and the Entrepreneurial State,” the author, John Aubrey Douglass, notes that, “California, Texas, Michigan, New York, and Illinois constitute the top five states in total HT employment. California and Michigan had relatively high rates of HT employment in relation to their total employment (12.6% in Michigan and 10.8% in California). “Yet each of these states also has relatively high poverty and unemployment rates, low high school graduation rates, and low higher education access and bachelor degree completion rates when compared to other states.” More information
Paper by Charles M. Vest Looks at the Role of the Private Sector in American Higher Education
September 13, 2006 - The multiversity contributes to society through a wide spectrum of activities, notes Charles M. Vest in a new CSHE paper. "As universities pursue these new roles, especially in their scientific and technological contributions to economic development, they are at the nexus of five interested parties whose expectations are frequently mutually orthogonal." More information
August 1, 2006 - A new study warns that US higher education is losing ground to international competitors and needs greater attention and support. The United States has long enjoyed being on the cutting edge in its devotion to building a vibrant higher education sector, states John Aubrey Douglass, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. More information
Press Release: Engineers Should Have a Higher Education
July 21, 2006 - Many societal trends and needs call for engineers to broaden their outlooks, have more flexible career options, and work closely and effectively with persons of quite different backgrounds, states C. Judson King in his essay, “Let Engineers Go to College” in Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2006. Yet the education and general orientation of engineers have been directed inward toward the profession, rather than outward toward the rest of society and the world. More information
Press Release: Spring 2006 UC UG Experience Survey (UCUES) Launched
The University of California is turning the tables and letting students grade the university on how well it’s doing its job of undergraduate education. A team of researchers based at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education has just launched the fourth University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). More information
CSHE is pleased to announce the final report of the Digital Resource Study: "Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences" The purpose of this research was to 1) map the universe of digital resources available to a subset of undergraduate educators in the humanities and social sciences, and 2) to investigate how and if available digital resources are actually being used in undergraduate teaching environments. The study employed multiple methods, including surveys and focus groups. More information
Call for Nominations, 2007 Clark Kerr Lecturer
CSHE is soliciting nominations of a leading scholar and practitioner of higher education to give the third Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society. Nominations are due by April 21, 2006 at the latest and should be sent to Nathalie Lajarige at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at: lapiz@berkeley.edu. More information
New Issue of the "Chronicle of the University of California" is published
The Chronicle of the University of California has just published its seventh issue: "Changing Places: Scholars Here and Abroad," edited by William Roberts, 140 pages with many illustrations. Copies are available on campus (email cbrentano@berkeley.edu) or at the Student Store for $20.00 each - back numbers are also available. More information
Two New Reports on Civic and Academic Engagement
In June 2005, faculty, academic staff, and student representatives from across the University of California system gathered at a symposium to discuss and analyze the important interface of civic and academic engagement. Two new reports summarize that symposium's proceedings and present a series of recommendations for the University of California. More information
Steve Chatman Appointed SERU21 Project Director
Steve Chatman has been appointed as the director of CSHE's "Student Experience in the Research University - 21st Century" (SERU21) Project, which includes the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). More information
Press Release: Understanding the UC Undergraduate Experience
Berkeley Students Are Asked to Complete Online Survey As Part of Analytical Approach to Improving Academic and Cultural Life of UC Students A team of researchers based at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education has just launched the third University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) at UC Berkeley. Some 22,820 undergraduates at Berkeley have been invited to complete the survey. By the first week of May, the survey will be sent to undergraduates at the other seven undergraduate campuses. In total, some 160,000 undergraduates in the UC system will be invited to complete the on-line survey. More information
Press Release: New Undergraduate Experience Study Launched by UC Researchers
A research team at the University of California is about to launch one of the most ambitious studies of the student experience ever undertaken. Beginning this week, students who entered the University's eight undergraduate campuses as freshmen in fall 1998 and fall 2001, and as transfers in fall 2000 and fall 2001, will be invited to respond to a questionnaire asking them to reflect on the conditions and ways in which they are engaged in the academic and cultural life of the University. More information
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