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. "Learning from Students as Agents of Social Change: Toward an Emancipatory Vision of the University." Journal of Change Management, forthcoming.

Slocum, Jenée, and Robert A. Rhoads. "Faculty and Student Engagement in the Argentine Grassroots Rebellion: Toward a Democratic and Emancipatory Vision of the University." Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning 57, no. 1 (2009): 85-105.

Rhoads, Robert A., and Amy Liu. "Globalization, Social Movements, and the American University: Implications for Research and Practice." Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Practice XXIV (2008): 277-320.

Rhoads, Robert A. "The New Militarism, Global Terrorism, and the University: Making Sense of the Assault on Democracy 'Here, There, Somewhere.'" InterActions 3, no. 1 (2007).

Szelényi, Katalin, and Robert A. Rhoads. "Citizenship in a Global Context: The Perspectives of International Graduate Students in the United States." Comparative Education Review 51, no. 1 (2007): 25-47.

Rhoads, Robert A., and Xuehong Liang. "Global Influences and Local Responses at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies." World Studies in Education 7, no. 2 (2006): 23-53.

Calderone, Shannon, and Robert A. Rhoads. "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. "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.