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Mitchell J. Chang is Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change at the University of California, Los Angeles and also holds a joint appointment in the Asian American Studies Department. He previously worked as an Associate Dean at Loyola Marymount University and school evaluator at Alum Rock Union Elementary School District in San José, California. Chang's research focuses on the educational efficacy of diversity-related initiatives on college campuses and how to apply those best practices toward advancing student learning and democratizing institutions. He has over eighty publications and has served on the editorial board for several journals, including The Review of Higher Education, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Higher Education, Higher Education Abstracts, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Liberal Education, Equity & Excellence, AAPI Nexus, and Amerasia. He also served as the lead editor of Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (with D. Witt, J. Jones, & K. Hakuta, 2003: Stanford University Press). This book was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Grutter v. Bollinger, one of two cases involving the use of race sensitive admissions practices at the University of Michigan. Professor Chang received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellowship in 2001 and was awarded the Outstanding Outcomes Assessment Research Award, 1999-2000 by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). In 2006, the national magazine Diverse Issues in Higher Education (formerly Black Issues in Higher Education) profiled Professor Chang as one of the nation's top ten emerging scholars and in 2008, he received the ACPA Asian Pacific American Network Outstanding Contribution to APIDA Research Award (shared w/ J. Park, M. Lin, O. Poon, & D. Nakanishi). Chang was elected to serve as an At Large member for Division J of the American Educational Research Association in 2004 and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2010.