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:

Lærke Cecilie Anbert

Job title: PhD Fellow in Educational Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Role: Visiting Scholar
Research interests:

Nationalism, political violence, activism, racialisation and gender
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:

Marco Bitschnau

Job title: Doctoral student, Université de Neuchâtel
Role: Visiting Scholar
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:

Nelson Casimiro Zavale

Job title: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), and affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences
Role: Visiting Scholar
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:

Lin Cong

Job title: Doctoral Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Role: Visiting Scholar
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