People

Name:

Brian Murphy

Job title: President Emeritus De Anza College
Role: Associates
Name:

Christine Musselin

Role: Affiliated Faculty
Name:

Maresi Nerad

Job title: SERU Senior Researcher, Professor Emerita, Higher Education, University of Washington, Seattle
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Graduate Education, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Research Universities
Name:

Patricia A. Pelfrey

Job title: Senior Research Associate Emerita
Role: Associates
Topics: History of Higher Education, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, University of California
Name:

Karl S. Pister

Job title: Chancellor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz and Former Director, CSHE
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Name:

Preston S. Walton, M.A.

Job title: Senior Associate Vice President for Development, University of San Francisco – San Francisco, California
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Sheldon Rothblatt

Job title: Professor Emeritus, History, UC Berkeley
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Research Universities, University of California
Research interests:

Modern British and European history and the comparative history of universities
Name:

Samantha Rushing

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

Maria Veronica Santelices

Role: Affiliated Faculty, Visiting Scholar
Research interests:

Educational measurement and educational policy
Name:

Robert Shireman

Job title: Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Access, Accountability, Affordability and Financial Aid, Higher Education Policy, Leadership and Governance, Learning Outcomes
Research interests:

History of the sector and control distinctions in American higher education and comparisons to other countries.
Name:

Shirley R. Pippins, Ed.D.

Job title: Former President, Thomas Nelson Community College – Hampton, Virginia Former President, Suffolk County Community College – Long Island, New York
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Simon Barker, M.B.A & M.A

Job title: Managing Partner, Blue Moon Consulting Group – Denver, Colorado; Former Senior Vice President in Marsh & McLennan’s Reputational Risk & Crisis Management
Role: ELA Faculty
Name:

Sofia Martinez Ramos, Ph.D.

Job title: President, Luminario Education Strategies – Tucson, Arizona Associate to the Vice President, University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona
Role: ELA Advisory Board
Name:

Ellen Switkes

Job title: Senior Associate
Role: Research Associate
Topics: Access, Graduate Education, Higher Education Policy, Leadership and Governance, Research Universities, Science Policy, Teaching and Learning, University of California
Name:

Xia Teng

Job title: Former Senior Associate for the Berkeley Institute on Higher Education
Role: Associates
Name:

Gregg Thomson

Job title: Principal Researcher - SERU Consortium
Role: Research Associate
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Student Experience and Success
Name:

Marc Torka

Job title: Research associate, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney (Australia) and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Role: Visiting Scholar
Topics: Graduate Education, Higher Education Policy, History of Higher Education, International Higher Education, Science Policy
Research interests:

Academic and professional socialization, work, careers and governance structures
Name:

Marijk Van der Wende

Job title: Professor of Higher Education, Utrecht University
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Topics: Higher Education Policy, International Higher Education, Teaching and Learning, University Admissions
Name:

Daniel Jones White

Job title: Principal Researcher and SERU North American Division Managing Director - SERU Consortium, University of Minnesota
Role: Research Associate
Name:

Daniel White-Jones

Job title: CSHE Research Associate and gradSERU R&D Director, Office of Institutional Research - University of Minnesota