Cornell Higher Education Research Institute

Advancing the world of work

Ron Ehrenberg 

Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University, is the Director of CHERI. Prior to the creation of CHERI, he served as Cornell's Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting.

The Institute for Community College Development (ICCD) , a SUNY and Cornell University partnership, provides leadership development programs, consulting services, and applied research grant support for community college CEOs, administrators, faculty and staff.

About CHERI

CHERI was established in the fall of 1998 to provide a vehicle for interdisciplinary research on higher education. Faculty and administrators affiliated with CHERI come from 5 different Cornell colleges and other academic institutions around the world. CHERI's current research interests include the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, improving persistence rates in STEM Field majors, and reducing inequality in access to higher education. CHERI is funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., the TIAA-CREF Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Announcements

  • April 2009 - New working paper added
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    The Effects Of Higher Admission Standards On NCAA Student-Athletes:
    An Analysis Of Proposition 16
    CHERI WP119 by Joshua Price, April 2009.

  • March 2009
    Demystifying Endowments 
    CHERI WP118 by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, March 2009 will appear in the Cornell Magazine.
  • February 2009
    A new working paper by Harriet Zuckerman & Ronald G. Ehrenberg titled "Recent trends in funding for the academic humanities & their implications", which originally appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of Daedalusis, is now available CHERI WP117.
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