SERU/UCUES Symposium: Assessing the Undergraduate Experience in the Postmodern University

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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.

The SERU Project is fostering an ongoing research program on student life, culture, and perspectives and developed the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES), an on-line census survey of all undergraduates at UC.

The symposium will gather scholarly and policy-oriented researchers to present papers and findings focused largely on the undergraduate experience at the University of California, but open as well to scholars doing work at other 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.

The symposium is also intended to encourage interest in the use of the robust UCUES data base by scholars and policy analysts. We invite the academic community interested in the goals of the SERU project to participate in the symposium and learn more about potential research opportunities using the UCUES data base.

Seating is limited. See registration form on the symposium website.

For information on the SERU Project and UCUES, see: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/seru

CONTACT:
Steve Chatman
SERU Project Director
steve_chatman@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-7141

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