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The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) is delighted to announce that Dr. Igor Chirikov has been appointed as the Center’s Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium Director and Senior Researcher. His first day at UC Berkeley will be December 10, 2018.

With funding support from the Volkswagen Foundation, the first gradSERU Research Symposium was held on October 4-5, 2018 in Hannover, Germany.

What are the benefits and costs of attending a selective public research university instead of a less-selective university or college?

The Center for Studies in Higher Education is seeking a new faculty Director effective no later than July 1, 2019.  We invite nominations of tenured Berkeley faculty members (who may be emeritus) -- who are highly qualified and willing to serve as a leader in both research and administrative functions for the Center.

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?

David P. Gardner Research Seminar on Higher Education

Dr. Gwilym Croucher Featured in University World News Article

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CSHE Research and Occasional Paper Series (ROPS)

The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) is pleased to announce the following new additions to the Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS):

The University of California: Creating, Nurturing, and Maintaining Academic Quality in a Public University Setting by C. Judson King, University of California (January 2018)

The University of California: Creating, Nurturing, and Maintaining Academic Quality in a Public University Setting

December 18, 2017 - A new CSHE Research and Occasional Paper (ROPS) by Saul Geiser, “Norm-Referenced Test and Race-Blind Admissions,” lays out the case for eliminating SAT and ACT scores as admissions criteria for the University of California. Geiser is a Research Associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education and former director of admissions research for the UC system.