Please note: SERU Symposium and Business Meeting planned for June 17-19, 2020 in Berkeley is officially cancelled.
Symposium Program (subject to change)
Pre-Symposium Day - Wednesday, June 17
Location: Clark Kerr Conference Center, Executive Dining Room (Building 10)
11:30 – 12:30 SERU North American Division New and Prospective Members Orientation (Location: Executive Dining Room)
12:30 – 13:00 Break/Lunch (all participants of the business meetings)
13:00 – 14:30 SERU North American Division Business Meeting (Location: Executive Dining Room)
13:30 – 14:30 SERU International Division Business Meeting (Location: TBD)
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee-break
14:45 – 16:45 Undergraduate SERU Survey Design and Content Workgroup Meeting
(Location: Executive Dining Room)
Day 1 - Thursday, June 18
Location: Clark Kerr Conference Center, Garden Room (Building 10)
08:30 – 09:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome, Introductions, and Symposium Goals
Igor Chirikov (SERU Consortium Director, CSHE UC Berkeley)
George Blumenthal (Director, CSHE UC Berkeley)
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote –“What have We Learned from Using the Surveys on College Campuses?”
Sylvia Hurtado (Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA)
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Session – Campus Climate for Undergraduate Student Success (Location: Garden Room)
Chair: Igor Chirikov (UC Berkeley)
Presenters:
Andy Zehner (Purdue)
Beatriz Brando (UC Berkeley)
Ron Huesman (University of Minnesota)
Steve Brint (UC Riverside)
10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Session – Program Climate in Doctoral Education (Location: Breakout Room D1)
Chair: Daniel Jones-White (University of Minnesota)
Presenters:
Scott Lanyon (University of Minnesota)
Andrew Eppig (UC Berkeley)
Brian Desrosiers-Tam (University of Toronto)
Kristen McKinney, Esthela Chavez (UCLA)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Fireside Chat - Challenges for Climate and Inclusion in Doctoral Education
Chair: Scott Lanyon (University of Minnesota)
Discussants:
Lisa Garcia-Bedolla (UC Berkeley)
Suzanne Ortega (Council of Graduate Schools)
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote – Connect Discover Engage Reflect: Improving the Undergraduate Student Experience at Berkeley Catherine P. Koshland (Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, UC Berkeley)
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:15 Global Assessment of Campus Climate in Undergraduate and Graduate Education
Chair: Igor Chirikov (SERU Consortium Director, CSHE UC Berkeley)
Presenters: TBC
16:15 – 16:30 Maresi Nerad (CIRGE/CSHE, UC Berkeley) – Policy Recommendations from the Conference
“Revisiting Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education Worldwide” (Hannover, Germany)
Day 2 – Friday, June 19
08:30 – 9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 Campus Climate and Student Well-Being
Chair: Chelsea Kluczkowski (University of Pittsburgh)
Presenters: TBC
10:30 – 11:20 Using Data to Improve Campus Climate
Chair: Gregg Thomson (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: TBC
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Book Presentation and Discussion on SERU Research Priorities
Chair: Igor Chirikov (UC Berkeley)
Book Presentation: Evaluating Campus Climate at US Research Universities: Opportunities for Diversity and Inclusion,
ed. by Krista Soria (University of Minnesota)
Discussion
12:30 – 12:40 Closing remarks
More information on the SERU Consortium can be found here.