SERU Symposium Series

SERU Series Events

SERU Successfully Hosted its 2024 Symposium at the University of Toronto

September 30, 2024

The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium successfully hosted its 2024 Symposium, "Leveraging Data for Student Engagement and Wellbeing in Undergraduate and Graduate Education," on September 17-18 at the University of Toronto, Canada. Co-sponsored by the CSHE, together with the School of Graduate Studies...

Jenae Cohn's New UWN Article Features SERU's Keynote Panel on AI

August 10, 2023
Jenae Cohn

In this article, CSHE's Research Associate Jenae Cohn reviewed a keynote panel discussion about artificial intelligence at the 2023 Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium Symposium. Cohn specifically focused on four aspects: defining AI, how AI may change higher education jobs, academic disciplines in response to AI, and ethical considerations.

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2023081013030232

2022 Virtual SERU Research Symposium "Student Success and Wellbeing at Research Universities"

"Student Success and Wellbeing at Research Universities"

The 2022 SERU Research Symposium "Student Success and Wellbeing at Research Universities" took place on June 15-16 and provided a venue to discuss best practices and initiatives that facilitate student success and wellbeing at research-intensive universities in the (post)pandemic era. It explored how the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices and economic inequalities affected student learning, engagement, sense of belonging, satisfaction, plans, mental health and wellbeing in undergraduate and graduate...

2021 Virtual SERU Research Symposium "Understanding Campus Climate"

Understanding Campus Climate: Ongoing Challenges and (Post)Pandemic Priorities June 16-17, 2021 – Online

SERU universities in the US and internationally are committed to promoting inclusion through sustaining a positive campus climate. SERU/USUES and gradSERU survey data support universities in their efforts to identify challenges and inform initiatives aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in undergraduate and graduate education. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, minoritized and marginalized student populations...

Tuition as a Path for Affordability? The Pursuit of a Progressive Tuition Model at the University of California

John Aubrey Douglass
Patrick A. Lapid
2018

In an environment of declining public funding and rising tuition rates, many public universities in the US are moving toward a “progressive tuition model” that attempts to invest approximately one-third of tuition income into institutional financial aid for lower-income and middle-class students. The objective is to mitigate the cost of rising tuition and keep college affordable. But is this model as currently formulated working? Utilizing data from the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Survey of undergraduates and other data sources, this study explores these issues by...

SERU Project Symposium: Assessing the Undergraduate Experience in the Postmodern University

The Student Experience in the Research University 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. The SERU Project is fostering an ongoing research program on student life, culture, and perspectives and has 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...

Civic & Academic Engagement in the Multiversity: Institutional Trends and Initiatives at the University of California

Symposium Objectives: share national perspectives on how research universities are developing and supporting academic environments that integrate civic engagment; present national and UC specific data (including UCUES data) on student civic and academic engagement; discuss system-wide reports and white papers addressing current UC best practices in community-based learning and research; and discuss future innovative academic initiatives within the UC

A New Generation of University Students: Understanding the Student Experience and Seeking Opportunities to Translate Analysis into Practice

The Student Experience in the Research University Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold the 2nd Annual SERU/UCUES Symposium on Thursday May 8, 2008 on the UCLA campus. 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...

Comparative Perspectives on the Undergraduate Experience

The Student Experience in the Research University Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold the 3rd SERU Research Symposium on Friday May 1, 2009 on the UC Berkeley campus.

The symposium will gather scholarly and policy oriented researchers to present papers focused on the undergraduate experience at 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 that results in publishable papers via the SERU Project or...

Learning Outcomes, Student Success, and Assessing Affordability: An Exploration of What the Data and Research Tells Us

The Student Experience in the Research University Project, based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, will hold its 4th SERU Research Symposium on May 14 and 15, 2010 on the Berkeley campus.

This year's theme is, Learning Outcomes, Student Success, and Assessing Affordability: An Exploration of What the Data and Research Tells Us.

Representatives from each of the 16 research universities that make up the SERU Consortium will be participants - including the nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California, along with the AAU Universities of...