People

Name:

James A. Hyatt, M.B.A.

Job title: Senior Research Associate, Vice Chancellor for Budget & Finance and CFO Emeritus, Former Associate Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley
Role: ELA Faculty, Research Associate
Topics: Accountability, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, Technology in Higher Education, University of California
Name:

Janet Holmgren, Ph.D.

Job title: President Emerita, Mills College – Oakland, California; Senior Vice President for Strategic Advancement, University Now – San Francisco, California
Role: Affiliated Faculty, ELA Faculty
Topics: Access, Accountability, Affordability and Financial Aid, Graduate Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, Leadership and Governance
Name:

Johnnella E. Butler, Ph.D.

Job title: Professor Emerita, Comparative Women's Studies, Spelman College - Atlanta, Georgia; Former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Spelman College; Founding Executive Leadership Academy Alumni
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Joseph Castro, Ph.D.

Job title: Chancellor, California State University
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Judy Miner, Ed.D.

Job title: Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza Community College District – Los Altos Hills, California
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Judy Sakaki, Ed.D.

Job title: President, Sonoma State University – Sonoma, California Former Vice President for Student Affairs, University of California, Office of the President – Oakland, California
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Karen Biestman, J.D.

Job title: Associate Dean and Director, Native American Cultural Center, Stanford University – Stanford, California
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

C. Judson King, Sc.D.

Job title: Former CSHE Director; Provost and Sr. Vice President, Emeritus - university-wide; and Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Role: Affiliated Faculty, ELA Advisory Board
Topics: Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, Science Policy, University of California
Research interests:

Scholarly Communication; UC Structure and Functions
Name:

Amal Kumar

Job title: PhD candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Role: Associates
Topics: Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, Leadership and Governance
Research interests:

Public higher education policy, with a focus on the role of organizational and policy actors in creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutionalized policies and practices.
Name:

LaMont Jones, Jr. , Ed.D.

Job title: Senior Staff Writer, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, – Alexandria, Virginia
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Hong Liu

Job title: Associate Professor
Role: Visiting Scholar
Name:

Lynn Tierney, B.A.

Job title: Senior Advisor, Blue Moon Consulting Group – Denver, Colorado; Former Associate Vice President, Communications
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Anne MacLachlan

Job title: Research Associate and Visiting Scholars Coordinator
Role: Research Associate
Topics: Access, Graduate Education, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Research Universities, Science Policy, Student Experience and Success, University of California
Name:

Margaret Wilkerson, Ph.D

Job title: Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, California; Former Director, Media, Arts, and Culture, Ford Foundation
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Gary Matkin

Job title: Dean of Continuing Education, University of California, Irvine
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Access, Economics of Higher Education, Graduate Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Learning Outcomes, Research Universities, Student Experience and Success, Teaching and Learning, Technology in Higher Education, University of California
Name:

Robert C. May

Job title: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics/Dept of Philosophy, UC Davis
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, University of California
Research interests:

Philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, history of early analytic philosophy, theoretical linguistics, academic freedom
Name:

Michele Meoli

Job title: Associate Professor, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo
Role: Visiting Professor
Topics: Economics of Higher Education, Higher Education Finance, Higher Education Policy, International Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Science Policy
Research interests:

Higher Education: Economics of Higher Education, Higher Education Finance, International Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Science Policy. Finance: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurial Finance
Name:

Karen Merritt

Job title: Senior Associate University History
Role: Associates
Topics: History of Higher Education, University of California
Name:

Michael Nacht

Job title: Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, Former Interim CSHE Director
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Name:

Victoria Molero González

Job title: Program Assistant, Executive Leadership Academy
Role: Administrative Staff