Founder and Executive Director, Executive Leadership Academy
Josefina Baltodano is currently serving at UC Berkeley as Senior Associate – External Relations of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and Founding Executive Director of the Executive Leadership Academy (ELA). ELA is a multi-day program designed to provide insights and experiences that will be useful to persons who are interested in moving to high-level university and college leadership positions, such as provosts, presidents, and chancellors. The ELA Alumni Network is made up of 321 individuals who come from 35 states and 10 countries. Baltodano was highlighted in Diverse...
Igor Chirikov is the Director of the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium and Senior Researcher at CSHE. SERU Consortium is an academic and policy research collaboration based at Center for Studies in Higher Education at the UC Berkeley working in partnership with Etio and member universities. The Consortium is a group of leading research-intensive universities that increase student success by generating and analyzing comparative data on the student experience.
As SERU Consortium Director Igor Chirikov has broad responsibilities for overall SERU Consortium...
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow -- Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of Neo-Nationalism and Universities (Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press 2021), Envisioning the Asian...
Senior Research Associate and Visiting Scholars Coordinator
Anne J. MacLachlan is a retired senior researcher at CSHE who continues to be devoted to increasing access, persistence, and success in postsecondary education for underrepresented groups (URM) including domestic minorities, women, and those from uneducated/poor families with an emphasis on those in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Her research areas cover the spectrum of postsecondary populations including community college and transfer students, undergraduates in general, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. Among these, doctoral...
Joshua Patterson is the Assistant Director of the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium. Patterson is the primary liaison for SERU members regarding survey administration, deliverables, and data sharing--in collaboration with Etio Global. Additionally, Patterson oversees data confidentiality and access, and collaborates with members, SERU leadership and other researchers to produce technical reports, briefs, and articles based on the SERU data.
Based in Athens, GA, Patterson has extensive experience in managing and developing student surveys and translating...
