Experts in Higher Education
Leading UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies scholars affliated with HERI oversee research that has for more than forty years monitored trends in the national student population, to determine how students have both changed and remained the same. In addition to authoring reports that help inform the public of the influence of higher education on American society, these distinguised scholars provide insight and expertise to policy makers, the media and others on various higher education issues and represent key areas of research and study.
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Sylvia HurtadoProfessor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. Dr. Hurtado has coordinated several national research projects, including a U.S. Department of Education-sponsored project on how colleges are preparing students to achieve the cognitive, social, and democratic skills to participate in a diverse democracy. She is launching a National Institutes of Health project on the preparation of underrepresented students for biomedical and behavioral science research careers. She has also studied assessment, reform, and innovation in undergraduate education on a project through the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement.
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ALEXANDER W. ASTINAllan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and founding director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He is also the founding director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), HERI's ongoing national study of college students, faculty and institutions. Dr. Astin has authored 21 books and more than 300 other publications in the field of higher education, and has been a recipient of awards for outstanding research from more than a dozen national associations and professional societies. He has also been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a recipient of eleven honorary degrees. A 1990 study in the Journal of Higher Education identified Dr. Astin as the most frequently-cited author in the field of higher education. In 1985 readers of Change magazine selected Dr. Astin as the person "most admired for creative, insightful thinking" in the field of higher education. His latest book is "Mindworks: Becoming More Conscious in an Unconcious World, Information Age Publishing, 2007). Currently, Professors Alexander W. Astin and Helen S. Astin are Co-Prinicipal Investigators of a multi-year research study funded by the John Templeton Foundation, "Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of College Students' Search for Meaning and Purpose."
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HELEN S. ASTINDistinguished Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, is co-founder, along with her husband, Alexander W. Astin, of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. Currently, Professors Helen S. Astin and Alexander W. Astin are Co-Prinicipal Investigators of a multi-year research study funded by the John Templeton Foundation, "Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of College Students' Search for Meaning and Purpose."
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WALTER R. ALLENAllan Murray Cartter Professor of Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change.
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MITCHELL J. CHANGProfessor of Higher Education and Organizational Change at the University of California, Los Angeles, also holds a joint appointmentin the Asian American Studies Department. Chang's research focuses on the educational efficacy of diversity-related initiatives on college campuses and how to apply those best practices toward advancing student learning and democratizing institutions. He has written over fifty articles and book chapters, and has served on several editorial boards, including The Review of Higher Education, Liberal Education, and Equity & Excellence, Journal of Higher Education, and Amerasia. He also served as the lead editor of Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (with D. Witt, J. Jones, & K. Hakuta, 2003; Stanford University Press). This book was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Grutter v. Bollinger, one of two cases involving the use of race sensitive admissions practices at the University of Michigan. Professor Chang received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Felllowship in 2001 and was awarded the Outstanding Outcomes Assessment Research Award, 1999-2000 by the American College Personnel Association. He was profiled in 2006 as one of the nation's top ten scholars under forty by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (formerly Black Issues in Higher Education). He co-authored the 2007 HERI report, "Beyond Myths: the Growth and Diversity of Asian American College Freshman, 1971-2005," with J. Park, M. Lin, O. Poon, and D. Nakanishi, which received the ACPA Asian Pacific American Network Outstanding Contribution to APIDA Research Award. Professor Chang's web page http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chang
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VICTOR SAENZAssistant Professor in Higher Education Administration and a faculty associate with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to leaving UCLA to join the faculty of the University of Texas in 2007, Dr. Saenz was the Assistant Director of Research for the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) at HERI. In 2005, he received his PhD from UCLA in Higher Education and Organizational Change with a focus on access, equity, and diversity issues in postsecondary education. Dr. Saenz was a Spencer Foundation pre-doctoral fellow while at UCLA, where he also completed a Masters degree in Public Affairs (1999) and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics (1996) from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Saenz was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Dr. Saenz's web page http://www.victorsaenz.com
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JOSE LUIS SANTOSAssistant Professor, Higher Education and Organizational Change.
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LINDA J. SAXProfessor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA, where she also serves as faculty director of the Student Affairs graduate program. An author of more than 70 publications, her research focuses on gender differences in college student development, specifically how institutional characteristics, peer and faculty environments, and forms of student involvement differentially affect male and female college students. She is the author of "The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Development Potential of Women and Men (Jossey-Bass, 2008). Dr. Sax is also principal investigator on a nationwide study of the effects of single-sex secondary education. She is curently a Fellow with the Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media, as well as the recipient of the 2008 Scholar-in-Residence Award from the American Association of University Women and the 1999 Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
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RICHARD WAGONERAssistant Professor, Higher Education and Organizational Change.
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PATRICIA M. MCDONOUGHProfessor, Higher Education and Organizational Change.
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