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...
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...
John Douglass Featured in CSSN Article on Global University Rankings
March 6, 2025
We are pleased to announce that John Aubrey Douglass, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), was recently featured in an article by the Chinese Social Sciences Net (CSSN). The article, titled "Reflecting on the Deficiencies and Shortcomings of Global University Ranking Systems," delves into the origins, impacts, and inherent flaws of global university rankings, drawing insights from experts including Douglass.
In the article, Douglass discusses the emergence of global university rankings as tools for governments to assess the value and quality...
CSHE's Anne MacLachlan and Faculty Affiliate Jonathan Glater Featured in The Daily Californian
February 25, 2025
Anne MacLachlan, Senior Research Associate at CSHE, was quoted in a recent report from The Daily Californian, in response to the "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education.
“Our motto is let there be light,” MacLachlan said. “Generally, that’s what universities stand for. That light has to keep on shining by people who are going to continue to teach, implement, all of those things that we believe in. Each institution has to stand up and say, ‘This is illegal; we’re not doing it.’ If universities are not going to clearly stand up for values of open...
