SERU Principal Researchers
- Steven Brint
- Steven Brint is a professor of sociology and education (by courtesy) at the University of California, Riverside, and the director of the National Science Foundation-supported Colleges & Universities 2000 study.
- He works on American higher education, the sociology of professions and middle-class politics. He is the author of three books: The Diverted Dream (with Jerome Karabel), (Oxford University Press, 1989), In an Age of Experts (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Schools and Societies, 2nd ed. (Stanford University Press, 2006). He is also the editor of The Future of the City of Intellect (Stanford University Press, 2002). The Diverted Dream won the American Education Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 1991 and the Council of Universities and Colleges' Outstanding Research Publication award the same year. His article "Socialization Messages in Primary Schools: An Organizational Analysis" (with Mary F. Contreras and Michael T. Matthews) won the Willard Waller Award in 2002 from the American Sociological Association. His articles have appeared in The American Journal of Sociology, The Journal of Higher Education, Minerva, Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, and Work and Occupations, among other journals. His work has been translated into Dutch, French, Italian and Japanese. He is a faculty associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Stanford University. He is currently at work on a new book, Creating the Future, about institutional change in American research universities, 1980-2005. In 2006, he was named as SERU principal researcher at CSHE.
- John Douglass
- John Douglass is a senior research fellow whose current research interests are focused on the student experience in research universities, the role of universities in economic development, science policy as a component of national and multinational economic policy, the evolving role of mass higher education in society, and the influence of globalization. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS) and a visiting policy analyst at the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
- He is the author of The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2000), which was recently reissued in paperback and also published in Chinese with a special preface. He is also the author of The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities (Stanford University Press, 2007). Recent scholarly publications include articles in Higher Education Policy and Management (OECD), Higher Education Policy (Association of International Universities), Perspectives (UK), Change Magazine, Minerva, The Journal of Policy History, California Politics and Policy, History of Education Quarterly, The American Behavioral Scientists, and the European Journal of Education. MORE...
- Richard Flacks
- Richard Flacks is a research professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the Sociology Department at UCSB in 1969, and chaired the department from 1975 to 1980. During his years at the University, he was very active in institutional policy making with respect to student affairs, serving for many years as chair of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs, and the Committee on Admissions, Enrollment and Relations With Schools. From 2002 to 2006 he served as a member of the systemwide Board on Admissions and Relations With Schools.
- Professor Flacks received a Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan in 1963. His dissertation research focused on student culture, and was incorporated into the classic monograph Persistence and Change: Bennington College and its Students after 25 years (coauthored with Newcomb, Koenig and Warwick, 1965). His widely cited research on student activism resulted in two books: Youth and Social Change (1971) and Beyond the Barricades: The Liberated Generation Grows Up (with Jack Whalen, 1989). He was one of the prime movers, with Gregg Thomson and John Douglass, in initiating UCUES. MORE...
- Gregg Thomson
- Gregg Thomson joined the faculty of the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. In the 1970s he developed and taught path-breaking courses on the social history of black women in American society; psychology's interpretation of the black experience; and the comparative dynamics of race, class and gender. With his undergraduate student Donna Benson, Gregg conducted and published (Social Problems, 1982) the first full-scale research study and analysis of sexual harassment on a university campus.
- Since 1990 Gregg has been the director of the Office of Student Research at the University of California, Berkeley. With a particular interest in the analysis of minority issues in higher education, he has conducted award-winning research on student use of ethnic categories and on minority-retention programs at UC Berkeley.
- Working with the other University of California campus Student Affairs and Institutional Research directors, Gregg has guided the development of both the content and the innovative design of UCUES. Recognized for its highly successful system for the development and implementation of large-scale Web-based surveys of university students, UC Berkeley's Office of Student Research now administers UCUES for all the UC campuses.
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