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In this policy brief for the University of California Office of the President, Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta present evidence suggesting that GPA major restrictions disproportionately impact underrepresented and lower-income students with less prior academic opportunity. It links those students to postgraduate outcomes to show that, in at least one comprehensive case study, pushed-out students are sharply prevented from achieving high wages or their preferred careers after graduation.

In a study published April 8, researchers found that compared to in-person instruction, online education platforms could be used to increase enrollment in STEM programs at a lower cost.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 8, 2020
Contact: Igor Chirikov, UC Berkeley — chirikov@berkeley.edu, (510)517-7066

ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORMS COULD SCALE HIGH-QUALITY STEM EDUCATION
FOR DISTRESSED UNIVERSITIES

CSHE in the News - Not too long ago, the state would step in and fund the construction of a new building to meet demand. No longer, John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education, told me. “State funding has already evaporated for seismic retrofitting, new buildings and maintenance,” he said, leaving donors to fill the gap.

When testing requirements are properly aligned, the best test prep is regular classroom instruction

"It is at public universities like UC Berkeley that donors can really impact the socio-economic advancement of California and society in general," said CSHE's Senior Research Fellow, John Douglass for Berkeley Blog. 

In a series for @uniworldnews around "Missing Links” in university policies and practices, CSHE senior research fellow John Aubrey Douglass and senior associate Ellen Switkes discuss Hiring and promotion as key to fulfilling Higher Education mission.

"In the US, there had already been weakening demand from Chinese students partly due to tensions on American campuses amid the ongoing trade war," said Rahul Choudaha

CSHE's Zachary Bleemer suggests that competition is the key reason UC freshmen applications have dipped for a second straight year, with the percentage of California high school graduates applying to a UC campus doubling from 10% in the mid-1990s to 20% today.

John Aubrey Douglass, editor of a forthcoming book on neo-nationalism and universities, told University World News: “In an era of increased attacks on academic freedom by autocrats and demagogues, Soros’ new initiative provides a meaningful attempt to bolster links between universities in more free societies with those operating under repressive government.”

ROPS study by CSHE Associate Saul Geiser and Berkeley Graduate School of Education Maria Veronica Santelices found that a student's high-school GPA was "consistently the best predictor" of cumulative college grades and graduation.

UC Cliometric History Project Director, Zachary Bleemer discusses UC admissions policies, his ClioMetric History Project, and advice to aspiring RA’s and grad students in this interview for the Berkeley Economic Review.

Appeared in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

BERKELEY, Calif. – Information-packed sessions on attributes and skills essential for successfully navigating higher education as a top administrator filled the first day of the Executive Leadership Academy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dear Members of the CSHE Community,

I am very pleased to announce that George R. Blumenthal, UC Santa Cruz’s 10th Chancellor and emeritus professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been appointed to serve as the next Faculty Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) upon stepping down as UCSC’s Chancellor this June. He will take up the position on August 1.

CSHE Research Associate and higher education reporter Karin Fischer recently launched her blog on higher education, “Latitudes - what matters in global education - and why. “I will be writing to you from a specific point on the map, primarily 37.7749° N, 122.4194° W (also known as San Francisco),” she explains. "But I’ll take you around the globe, drawing on more than a decade of reporting on international higher education.

In their most recent meeting in San Francisco, the UC Regents approved a 2.6 percent increase in tuition for nonresident students, but left in-state undergraduate tuition steady. UC is still struggling to make-up for the huge cuts in state financing that came on the heels of the Great Recession. But why increase only nonresident tuition, and not something similar and predictable for California residents?

What the UC Can Learn From the University of Texas at El Paso in Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution

The Center for Studies in Higher Education is pleased to announce this year’s Clark Kerr Lecturer and Clark Kerr Award recipient, President Diana Natalicio of the University of Texas at El Paso.

Graduate students writing dissertations focusing on higher education are invited to apply for membership in a research seminar, co-sponsored by the Social Science MATRIX, to be held in 2019-20. The seminar will enable students to meet and work with colleagues in other disciplines and departments.