Professor John Aubrey Douglass, University of California at Berkeley

Dr. John Douglass is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley. He is an internationally renown scholar whose research has focused on global trends in higher education, including issues related to access and equity in higher education, the student experience in research universities, the role of universities in economic development, and the evolving role of mass higher education. He is the author of The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities (Stanford University Press 2007), The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press 2000) recently published in Chinese, and co-editor of Globalization's Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World (Public Policy Press Spring 2009). Other recent 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. For more information and publications, see: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/jdouglass.htm