For the past five years, economist Santiago Pérez has studied the socioeconomic makeup of students at elite institutions. A new working paper shows that neither free tuition nor the introduction of standardized testing had any impact on the backgrounds of students attending elite institutions for the last hundred years.

Professors of teaching at UC Davis and across the UC System were critical during the unexpected crisis of the pandemic, and now they are helping to shape the way departments face the challenges of educating a growing—and changing—undergraduate population.