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), and is a faculty member in the Goldman School of Public Policy, at the University of California - Berkeley. His research focuses on the forces and politics of globalization, the future of Democracy, the role of universities in economic development and socioeconomic mobility, the student experience and...
Researcher, The California College Data and Policy Project
Maggie R. Jones received a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University in 2012. She worked for the U.S. Census Bureau as an economist after receiving her Ph.D., first in the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications and then in the Center for Economic Studies. Her research has focused on using administrative records to uncover economic outcomes that are difficult to measure in other types of data, including studies on the labor market impacts of industry credentialing, patterns of income mobility and income growth by demographic group, the anti-poverty...
Senior Researcher 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...
Pardis Mahdavi is an author, educator, and entrepreneur. She has published seven non-fiction books and two edited volumes. She earned a BA from Occidental College, and two masters and a PhD from Columbia University. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror (Hachette Books 2023), Riding (Duke University Press, 2024), Hyphen (Bloomsbury 2021), Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives (Stanford University Press, 2016), From Trafficking to Terror (Routledge, 2016), Gridlock: Labor,...
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...
