Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
Lisa García Bedolla is Berkeley's Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Hitchcock Dean of the Graduate Division, and Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Education. She uses the tools of social science to reveal the causes of educational and political inequalities in the United States, considering differences across the lines of ethnorace, gender, class, geography, et cetera. She believes an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach is critical to recognizing the complexity of the contemporary United States. She has used a variety of social science methods – participant observation, in-depth interviewing, survey research, field experiments, and geographic information systems (GIS) – to shed light on this question. While doing all of this, she is the proud mom of three young adults, one of whom is in high school. Professor García Bedolla earned her PhD in political science from Yale University and her BA in Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. From Lisa's approach to research, we see she is very much at home with us today in seeking to better serve our students.
Plenary Session: The Path Forward: Equitable Admissions in Higher Education
Friday, April 25, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT