People

Name:

Adela de la Torre, Ph.D.

Job title: President, San Diego State University – San Diego, California Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Diversity, University of California, Davis – Davis, California
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Alex Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Job title: President and Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento – Sacramento, California; President Emeritus, California State University, San Marcos –San Marcos, California
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Richard C. Atkinson

Role: Affiliated Faculty
Name:

Josefina Castillo Baltodano

Job title: Founder and Executive Director, Executive Leadership Academy
Role: Academic Staff
Name:

ShuiMei Bao

Job title: Associate Professor
Role: Visiting Scholar
Name:

Bill Lacy

Job title: Professor of Sociology
Department: Department of Human Ecology, UC Davis
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

Sociology of science, organization and structure of agricultural research and extension (U.S. and international), social psychology of education and outreach, international research and higher education policy and practices
Name:

Zach Bleemer

Job title: Research Associate and PhD Candidate in Economics
Role: Research Associate
Topics: Access, Economics of Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, University Admissions, University of California
Research interests:

Long-run student outcomes of post-secondary educational policies and decisions
Name:

George Blumenthal

Job title: Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Role: Academic Staff, ELA Advisory Board
Topics: Access, Accountability, Economics of Higher Education, Graduate Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, International Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, Science Policy, Student Experience and Success, Teaching and Learning, University Admissions, University of California
Name:

Steven G. Brint

Job title: SERU Principal Researcher; Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of California, Riverside
Department: Sociology and Public Policy, University of California, Riverside
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Access, Accountability, Affordability and Financial Aid, Graduate Education, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, Science Policy, Student Experience and Success, Teaching and Learning, University Admissions, University of California
Research interests:

The U.S. Graduate Student Experience; Graduate Education and Social Stratification; The Educational Backgrounds of Business, Political, and Cultural Leaders; Science Policy in the U.S. and China
Name:

Helena Brykarz

Job title: Manager, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Role: Administrative Staff
Name:

Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, Ph.D.

Job title: President Emerita, Antioch University – Seattle, Washington; Former President, Diné College – Tsaile, Arizona
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Tongshan Chang

Job title: Senior Researcher - SERU Consortium, UCOP
Role: Research Associate
Topics: Access, Accountability, Institutional Research, Learning Outcomes, Student Experience and Success, University Admissions, University of California
Name:

Igor Chirikov

Job title: Senior Researcher and SERU Consortium Director
Role: Academic Staff
Topics: Higher Education Policy, Institutional Research, International Higher Education, Learning Outcomes, Research Universities, Student Experience and Success, Teaching and Learning, Technology in Higher Education
Research interests:

Student Experience and Success, Learning Outcomes, Technology in Higher Education, International Comparative Higher Education
Name:

Rahul Choudaha

Job title: Senior Researcher - SERU Consortium
Role: Research Associate
Topics: International Higher Education, Research Universities, Student Experience and Success, University Admissions
Name:

Carol Christ

Job title: Chancellor, University of California Berkeley and former CSHE Director
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Name:

Dale Jones, Ph.D.

Job title: Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre– Lehman, Pennsylvania; Associate Professor of Public Administration, Pennsylvania State University
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Ding-Jo Currie, Ph.D.

Job title: Distinguished Faculty, Higher Education Leadership California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California; Former Chancellor, Coast Community College District – Costa Mesa, California
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Topics: Graduate Education, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Teaching and Learning
Name:

Dorothy Leland, Ph.D.

Job title: Chancellor Emerita (2019), University of California, Merced – Merced, California; Former President, Georgia College and State University – Milledgeville, Georgia
Role: Associates, ELA Advisory Board
Name:

John Aubrey Douglass

Job title: Senior Research Fellow
Role: Academic Staff
Topics: Access, Accountability, Affordability and Financial Aid, Economics of Higher Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, Institutional Research, International Higher Education, Learning Outcomes, Research Universities, Science Policy, Student Experience and Success, Teaching and Learning, University Admissions, University of California
Name:

Charlie Eaton

Job title: Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Merced
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Affordability and Financial Aid, Economics of Higher Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, University of California
Research interests:

Economic sociology, political sociology, organizations, education, stratification and inequality, healthcare, public policy