"Over a thousand people crowded around UC Berkeley’s Savio Steps in Sproul Plaza on Friday (March 7) to protest ongoing or threatened cuts to federal research funds, part of a day of action organized by research scientists around the country.
Gathering in the warm sun, the crowd, bearing placards and signs in support of scientific research, heard from speakers who excoriated the Trump administration for trying to shut down one of the most productive economic engines of all time.
CSHE Joined an IHEP Coalition Urging Congress to Protect Postsecondary Data
March 11, 2025
On March 10, the Institue for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) led a coalition of 87 organizations and individual researchers in sending a letter to Congress elevating deep concerns regarding recent Institute of Education Sciences (IES) research and data collection cancellations. CSHE is honored to join the coalition. These cancellations not only disrupt critical...
SERU Consortium Report--The Multi-Engagement Model
Based at UC Berkeley, the SERU Consortium is a community of research-intensive universities collaborating on generating longitudinal, benchmarking data on the student experience. Member universities administer SERU undergraduate (ugSERU) and graduate student (gradSERU) surveys that are focused on the student experience and outcomes in research universities; they collaborate in survey design, data sharing, and disseminating best practices. The Consortium is also a vehicle for promoting scholarly and policy-relevant collaboration beyond institutional and national borders. Membership in the...
Dr. Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a dissertation on computational models of cognitive mastery. Funded by a National Science Foundation Fellowship (GK-12), he spent extensive time with K-12 educators and students working to integrate educational technology into...
