02/20/12
A podcast with Steven Brint on improving undergraduate education in research universities will be posted on the Learning Matters website this week. Learning Matters is an educational media organization led by John Merrow, one of the leading educational journalists in the country and chief educational reporter for the PBS New Hour with Jim Lehrer. In the podcast Brint discusses the evaluation of teaching in research universities, ways to integrate teaching and research, the need for more challenging instruction as well as greater participation in classrooms, and ways to increase student participation in large lecture classes. The Learning Matters website is: www.learningmatters.tv. To listen to the podcast, click on higher education podcasts.

12/1/11
Steven Brint will participate in a conference at Stanford University on the "new ecology of higher education."

10/21/11

Steven Brint will give a talk on the UC budget crisis at the annual meeting of the Librarians' Association of the University of California at UC Berkeley.

10/19/11

Steven Brint will give a talk at the Department of Sociology, UC-Merced, on "cultural networks, political rhetoric, and the UC budget crisis."

10/10/11

Steven Brint will give a seminar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education on "Who Governs? Comparing Dual and Managerial Control in U.S. Four-Year Colleges and Universities."

10/4/11

Steven Brint will participate in the Spencer Foundation conference on "The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice" at Northwestern University.

08/22/11

Steven Brint will organize a panel at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on "conflict in higher education."  Panelists include: Craig Calhoun (SSRC), Jerry Jacobs (Penn), Josipa Roksa (Virginia), Edward St. John (Michigan), and Mitcell Stevens (Stanford).

08/22/11

Steven Brint will present a paper on accountability movements in U.S. higher education at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting.

Summer 2011

The research team has completed work on a new paper on governance, "Who Governs: Comparing Dual and Managerial Control in U.S. Four-Year Colleges and Universities."  We are completing work for the 2010-11 updates of IDA and CCS.

11/19/10

Steven Brint will present a paper on declining fields in U.S. four-year colleges and universities, 1970-2005 at the annual meeting of ASHE in Indianapolis.

11/01/10

Kristopher Proctor takes a post-doctoral position at Stanford University working on a Gates foundation-sponsored grant on "the new ecology of higher education" with Michael Kirst and Mitchell Stevens.   Kerry Mulligan begins as data manager for the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project.

10/03/10

The updated version of the Institutional Data Archive (IDA) (through 2005-06) is released.

10/01/03

Jacob Apkarian and Richard Niemeyer join Colleges & Universities 2000 as project research assistants.

08/01/10

Steven Brint is named ASA representative to Committee Q (Education) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

11/05/09

Steven Brint presents a paper on the market model and growth in academic fields during the period 1975-2000 at the ASHE national meeting in Vancouver.

10/12/09

Steven Brint presents a colloquium at UCLA on results from the C&U2000 study of

changes in degrees awarded at U.S. colleges and universities, 1970-2005.

10/09/09

Steven Brint and John Aubrey Douglass present a discussion of student culture and academic engagement in the University of California at a meeting of LERU universities in Amsterdam.

05/01/09

The 3rd annual SERU Symposium on the Student Experience in the Research University will be held at UC Berkeley.  Steven Brint, Gregg Thomson, and John Aubrey Douglass will present a paper highlighting findings from the 2008 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey.

04/22/09

Steven Brint will present a colloquium at the University of California, Irvine on the market model and the growth and decline of academic fields in U.S. colleges and Universities.

04/10/09

Steven Brint will be honored at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings for the 20th anniversary of The Diverted Dream. He will join a panel discussion of the book with his co-author, Jerome Karabel, and Alicia Dowd from the University of Southern California.

03/24/09

Steven Brint will present a lecture at Teachers College, Columbia University on "Student Culture in an Age of Mass Consumerist Higher Education." The lecture is based on C&U 2000 studies of undergraduate students.

03/20/09

Steven Brint will present a paper on "The Market Model and the Rise and Fall of Academic Fields, 1975-2000" at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Baltimore.

01/24/09

Steven Brint will present a keynote address to the inaugural meeting of the Portuguese Sociology of Education Society in Lisbon on the transformation of the American professoriate.

11/20/08

Colleges & Universities welcomes two new members of the staff, Kerry Mulligan and Matthew Baron Rotondi, both graduate students in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

11/01/08

The Spencer Foundation has awarded the Colleges & Universities 2000 project a three-year $390,000 grant to expand and update the Institutional Data Archive and the College Catalog Study Database.  The research team will also conduct new research on the databases, including studies of the divergent paths of public and private universities, metrics of success in comprehensive universities, and the influence of presidential backgrounds and attitudes on institutional trajectories.

09/01/08

Lori Turk-Bicakci has joined the staff of the American Institutes of Research.  Kristopher Proctor will assume the responsibilities of project data manager.  Lori will continue to consult with members of the project team and co-author project papers.

08/03/08

Steven Brint will present a discussion of David Lavin and Paul Attewell's new book, Passing the Torch at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston.

08/02/08

Steven Brint will present a paper on accountability in American higher education at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston in August.

 

06/19/08

Steven Brint will speak at the Sociology Institute at Universita Federico II in Naples, Italy. Topic: "New Economy, Social Power, or Social Embeddedness? Sociological Perspectives on the Growth and Decline of Academic Departments, 1975-2000."

 

05/08/08
Steven Brint and Allison M. Cantwell will present two papers at the Symposium on the Student Experience in the Research University at UCLA on May 8. The first paper will explore the impact of undergraduate research, extracurricular activities, and study enhancement opportunities on student outcomes. The second paper will discuss the effects of student time use on academic engagement and GPA.

 

04/24/08
Steven Brint will speak at the Higher Education Institute at the University of Georgia on April 24. Topic: "No College Student Left Behind? The Case for Professionalizing College Teaching."

 

04/01/08

For new web features on teaching and learning in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC-Riverside, navigate to www.chass.ucr.edu and click on the "Scenes from a Classroom" and "Minds Alive" icons.  For Steven Brint's moderated teaching and learning blog, navigate to www.studentacademicaffairs.ucr.edu and click on "The CHASS Education Pond."