John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Globalization's Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World (Public Policy Press, 2009), and the author of The Conditions for Admissions (Stanford Press 2007) and The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2000 and 2007; published in Chinese in 2008 and in Japanese 2012). Among the research projects he co-founded and remains the Berkeley Principle Investigator is the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium – a group of major research universities in the US and internationally, with members in China, Brazil, South Africa, the UK, the Netherlands and Russia. He is also the editor of the Center's Research and Occasional Paper Series (ROPS), sits on the editorial board of international higher education journals in the UK, China, and Russia, and serves on the international advisory boards of a number of higher education institutes.