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CSHE's senior associate Saul Geiser co-authored a letter to the New York Times regarding the usefulness of SATs in college admission. 

A leader of remarkable vision, the former UC president left an imprint on American education. He died this month at the age of 90.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of David Pierpont Gardner on January 2, 2024.  Dr. Gardner served as President of University of California (1983 to 1992) and President of the University of Utah (1973-1983).

Search for David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education and Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education

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CSHE Senior Research Fellow John Aubrey Douglass published a think piece "It Can Happen Here?" on Academe. 

In this article, John A. Douglass discusses the global pattern of growing neonationalist populism and increasing attacks on academic communities, as well as the common threads connecting these attacks. 

How do nationalist tendencies play into, or counter, the global expansion of the university? This Global Perspectives review symposium engages with two timely contributions on the current state of the university in world society: Neo-nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education by John Aubrey Douglass (Johns Hopkins 2021) and The University and the Global Knowledge Society by David John Frank and John Mayer (Princeton 2020).

Rille Raaper, Associate Professor at Durham University and a former CSHE visiting scholar (2022), will publish her new book Student Identity and Political Agency: Activism, Representation and Consumer Rights with Routledge in 2024. The book examines the intersections of education, sociology and politics and provides a unique, research-informed account of the student experience in a contemporary higher education setting.

On August 28, 2023, CSHE Faculty Affiliate and SERU Principal Researcher Steven Brint published a new article entitled "The Political Machine behind the War on Academic Freedom" at the Chronicle of Higher Education. 

A new journal article "The 'New Flagship University' and Its Relevance to Brazilian Higher Education", published at the Journal of Research and Innovation in Higher Education (JRIHE), attempted to apply John A. Douglass's "New Flagship University" model to higher education in Brazil.   

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. 

John Aubrey Douglass's book The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press) was recently translated into Japanese. Tamagawa University Press published the translated book in July 2023.

John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow for Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley.

The proportion of young Americans holding humanities degrees has declined by about one-third in the past 15 years, with particularly large declines among men.