Robert Rhoads Professor Higher Education and Organizational Change 3141 Moore Hall (310) 794 4243 rhoads@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., Higher Education, Penn State University, 1993
M.A., Sociology, Penn State University, 1992
M.A., Student Personnel, Slippery Rock University, 1984
B.A., Sociology, Slippery Rock University, 1981

Research Interests

Social movements and the university; the role of the university in advancing global peace, social justice, and democracy; globalization and the university; and the university and economic/social change in the developing world.

Current Academic Year Courses

Fall Quarter
EDUC 122 Perspectives on the American College: Student Activism from the 1960s to the Present
EDUC 19 Fiat Lux Seminar on Student Activism
EDUC 288 Research Apprenticeship Course
 
Winter Quarter 
EDUC 288 Research Apprenticeship Course

Spring Quarter
EDUC 250C Theoretical Frameworks of Higher Education
EDUC 288 Research Apprenticeship Course
EDUC 150 Student Development in Theory and Practice
EDUC 288 Research Apprenticeship Course

News

Dr. Rhoads is the Director of the Globalization and Higher Education Research Center (GHERC). 

Recent Publications

Rhoads, Robert A., and Carlos Alberto Torres. (eds.). The University, State, and Market: The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Rhoads, Robert A. Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Maldonado, David E. Z., Robert A. Rhoads, and Tracy Lachica Buenavista. "The Student-Initiated Retention Project: Theoretical Contributions and the Role of Self-Empowerment." American Educational Research Journal 42, no. 4 (2005): 605-638.

Calderone, Shannon, and Robert A. Rhoads. "Challenging the Mythology of the "Disappearing Nation-State": A Case Study of Competitive Advantage through State-University Collaboration." Education and Society 23, no. 1 (2005): 5-23.

Rhoads, Robert A., and Gary Rhoades. "Graduate Employee Unionization as Symbol of and Challenge to the Corporatization of U.S. Research Universities." Journal of Higher Education 76, no. 3 (2005): 243-275.

Rhoads, Robert A., Victor Saenz, and Rozana Carducci. "Higher Education Reform as a Social Movement: The Case of Affirmative Action." The Review of Higher Education 28, no. 2 (2005): 191-220.

Rhoads, Robert A. "Globalization and Resistance in the United States and Mexico: The Global Potemkin Village." Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning 45, no. 2 (2003): 223-250.

Rhoads, Robert A., and Liliana Mina. "The Student Strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico: A Political Analysis." Comparative Education Review 45, no. 3 (2001): 334-353.