Cristina González

Job title: 
Professor Emerita, School of Education & Department of Spanish, UC Davis
Bio/CV: 

Education

Ph.D., Spanish – Indiana University, Bloomington – 1981

Select Publications

Books

Clark Kerr's University of California:  Leadership, Diversity and Planning in Higher Education (New Brunswick, N.J.:  Transaction Publishers, 2011).

Articles

  • “Higher Education Reasserts its Role as a Public Good,” University World News, 422, July 15, 2016.  Liliana Pedraja, Co-Author.
  • “Privatization and Access:  The Chilean Higher Education Experiment and Its Discontents,” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE.11.15 (December 2015). Liliana Pedraja, Co-Author.
  • “The Rise of Think Tanks in China and in the United States:  Their Interactions with Universities” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE.10.14 (November 2014). Xinpei Zhang, Co-Author.
  • “Education and Empire:  Colonial Universities in Mexico, India and the United States,” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE.7.14 (July 2014).  Funie Hsu, Co-Author.
  • “Succession Planning at Notre Dame: Lessons for Librarians,” New Library World, 114, 9/10 (2013), pp. 408-415.
  • “Chile:  Higher Education:  A Canary in a Privatisation Coalmine,” University World News, 295, November 8, 2013.
  • “The Faculty Promotion and Merit System in China and the United States:  The Cases of Wuhan University and the University of California, Davis,” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE.13.12 (October 1912).  Yamin Liu and Xiaoling Shu, Co-Authors.
  • “Can China Build Something Like the University of California?”  Inside Higher Education, May 31, 2012. 
  • “How to Help Undergraduate Students Think about Graduate School:  Interviewing Their Way Up the Five Levels of Learning, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 22, 9 (2012), pp. 26-27.
  • Hedgehogs and Foxes at the Crossroads:  Leadership and Diversity at the University of California,” Berkeley Review of Education, 2, 1 (2011), pp. 69-84.
  • “Colleges Should Cultivate Leaders Within their Own Ranks,” The Chronicle of HigherEducation, 57, 41 (2011), p. A29.
  • “Leadership Development and Succession Planning:  How to Bring in More Women as Top Academic Leaders,” Women in Higher Education, 20, 3 (2011), pp. 6-7.
  • “Leadership, Diversity and Succession Planning in Academia,” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE. 8.10 (May 2010).
  • “Hedgehogs, Foxes, Leadership Renewal and Succession Planning,” Research and Occasional Papers Series, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, CSHE. 17.07 (November 2007).
  • “Latinos or Hispanics?  Protocol Matters,” The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 17, 12 (2007), pp. 26-27.
  • “Building Sustainable Power:  Latino Scholars and Academic Leadership Positions at U.S. Institutions of Higher Learning,” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 6, 2 (2007), pp. 157-162.
  • “Women’s Leadership Shortage:  The Leaky Tank,” Women in Higher Education, 15, 8 (2006), pp. 22-23.
  • “When is a Mentor Like a Monk?” Academe, 92, 3 (2006), pp. 29-32.
  • “Why We Like to Call Ourselves Latinas,” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 4, 4 (2005), pp. 392-398.  Patricia Gándara, Co-Author.
  • “Breaking Into the Guildmasters Club:  What We Know About Women Science and Engineering Department Chairs at AAU Universities,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16, 1 (2004), pp. 157-171.  Debbie Niemeier, First Author.
  • “The Baby Who Did Matter:  Work-Life Balance in the Academy,” Women in Higher Education, 13, 8 (2004), pp. 1-2.
  • “The New Generation of American Scholars and the Structure of the University,” Academe, 89, 4 (2003), pp. 56-60. Debbie Niemeier and Alexandra Navrotsky, Co-Authors.
  • “The Role of the Graduate School in Interdisciplinary Programs:  The University of California, Davis, Budget Model, ” The Communicator, 36, 5 (2003), pp. 1,2 & 4.
  • “Speaking a Language of Color:  A Personal Reflection on the Rise of Spanish,” The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 13, 16 (2003), pp. 24-26.
  • “Graduate Education and the Diversity Debate,” The Communicator, 35, 4 (2002), pp. 1, 2 & 7.
  • “Graduate Education in Germany and the United States:  From Isolation to Cooperation,” Academic Leader, 18, 4 (2002), pp. 5 & 8.
  • “Undergraduate Research, Graduate Mentoring, and the University's Mission,” Science, 293, 5335 (2001), pp. 1624-1626.
  • “Tips for Women Academic Leaders to Do The Right Thing,” Women in Higher Education, 10, 9 (2001), pp. 7-8.
  • “The Future of Spanish in Academia,” Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Bulletin, 28 (1997), pp. 37-39.

Administrative Experience

  • Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, University of California, Davis, 2002-2004
  • Dean of Graduate Studies, University of California, Davis, 1997-2002
  • Chair, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993-1997
Research interests: 

History of the University of California; history of higher education; Education Policy and Governance; Educational Leadership; Diversity issues; Hispanic culture

CONTACT

(530) 756-6528 & (530) 400 4316

Publications

Cristina González; Liliana Pedraja
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2015
Cristina González; Xinpei Zhang
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2014
Cristina González; Funie Hsu
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2014
Cristina González; Yamin Liu; Xiaoling Shu
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2012
Cristina González
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2010
Cristina Gonzalez
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2010
Cristina Gonzalez
Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS), 2007