Mitch Chang Promoted to Full Professor

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very proud to announce that Dr. Mitchell Chang has been promoted to Full Professor at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. An active member of the Center's Faculty Advisory Committee and former Book Review Editor of its Amerasia Journal, Professor Chang is one of the nation's leading experts on issues dealing with diversity in higher education.

His rigorous, empirically-based writings have appeared in the most influential scholarly and policy journals in the field of higher educational research, and have had a substantial impact on the national debate and legal deliberations dealing with affirmative action. His highly influential book (with Witt, D., Jones, J., & Hakuta, K.) Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities.(Stanford University Press, 2002).was cited in the majority opinion written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra D. O'Connor in the Grutter v. Bollinger (University of Michigan Law School) decision. Professor Chang has also received numerous academic accolades, including the Outstanding Outcomes Assessment Research Award by the American College Personnel Association and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellowship. In 2006, the national magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education named Professor Chang as one of its Top 10 Emerging Scholars of the nation.

Prior to coming to UCLA in 1999, Professor Chang held positions at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Stanford University, and Loyola Marymount University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA M.A. from Harvard University, and B.A. from UC Santa Barbara.

For more information about Professor Chang's research interests, publications and professional career, please see his web site: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chang/default.html