Academic Outcomes

Berkeley, May 4, 2026 – Community college students who receive CalFresh during their first year of college are more likely to stay on track academically and return for a second year, according to a new working paper from the California Policy Lab and the Center for Studies in Higher Education.

The research finds that students who maintained CalFresh benefits throughout their first year were more likely to complete a full-time course load (30 or more credits) and more likely to enroll...

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New UC Berkeley Report Challenges Return to SAT: Calls for Public Universities to Double Down on Public Mission

Berkeley, CA – September 30, 2025 — As a number of elite “Ivy-Plus” universities have reinstated SAT and ACT requirements, a new research report by Saul Geiser, Senior Associate at UC Berkeley’s Center...

BERKELEY, CA — As generative artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the classroom, a new study from the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) provides novel large-scale longitudinal evidence of how faculty are responding.

The working paper, “How Instructors Regulate AI in College: Evidence from 31,000 Course Syllabi,” authored by Igor Chirikov, Senior Researcher and the SERU Consortium Director, tracks the evolution of AI policies at a major public research university from 2021 to 2025. Using computational methods to analyze tens of thousands of course syllabi, the research...