Millennium Project

Christine M Cress is an Affiliated Scholar of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA and assistant professor of the Postsecondary, Adult and Continuing Education Program at Portland State University. She earned her PhD in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA.

Dr Cress spent 1995-1999 as a Research Analyst at the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA where she also served as an instructor in the Cooperative Institutional Research Program Summer Institute for researchers from across the country. The ten years prior, she worked in student services administration at Western Washington University and Whatcom Community College.

Dr Cress’s research and publications have focused on enhancing campus climate for the teaching and learning community. She has authored or co-authored the following scholarly works: Developing Citizenship through Assessment: A participatory Model for Guiding Learning and Leadership; Campus Climate Issues to Consider for the Next Decade; Meaning and Spirituality in the Lives of College Faculty: A Study of Values, Authenticity and Stress; A National Profile of Women Faculty in Research Universities; and Race and Ethnicity in the American Professoriate, 1995-96.