The centers and institutes below furnish SE&IS with valuable resources that support school programs and research. See research centers.
The Black Male Institute (BMI) is a cadre of scholars, practitioners, community members, and policymakers dedicated to improving the educational experiences and life chances of black males. Educational settings are considered to be critical spaces for developing informed action to address black male persistence in schooling, recognizing that the challenges that impact the academic success of black males are manifold, be they economic, social, legal, or health-related.
The work of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) explores interdisciplinary intersections of digital technologies and society, with the goal of creating fairness, justice, equity, and sustainability in relationship to our technological engagements.
The Center for Improving Child Care Quality (CICCQ) conducts high-quality, policy-relevant research, with focus on improving the early care and education environments of young children. Utilizing expertise in the areas of child development, professional development, child care quality, attachment, and observational and survey research methodology, CICCQ conducts basic, applied, and policy-driven research at the local, state, and national levels. CICCQ takes a collaborative approach to the evaluation process, building relationships with community partners to inform research, practice, and professional development.
The Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) is an interdisciplinary forum to address the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural, and historical evidence. CIE is committed to incorporating perspectives from ethnic communities around the world, to sustain the diversity within indigenous cultural heritages and broaden methods of information analysis and conservation.
The Center for Knowledge Infrastructures (CKI) conducts research on scientific data practices and policy, scholarly communication, and sociotechnical systems. It explores methods of data collection, innovations in scaling and workflows, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems.
The Center for Research and Innovation in Elementary Education, also known as CONNECT, links nationally recognized researchers with teachers and administrators at UCLA Lab School and public schools in Southern California to investigate central issues in education. Programs examine children’s learning and development from preschool to sixth grade; investigate teaching diverse student populations; encourage exchange of ideas among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with child development and school reform; and disseminate effective educational approaches and research.
The Center for Study of Evaluation (CSE)/ National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is devoted to educational research, development, training, and dissemination. CSE/CRESST supplies leadership in these areas by creating new methodologies for evaluating educational quality, creating new designs for assessing student learning, promoting the sound use of assessment data, setting the national research agenda, and influencing practice.
The Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS) conducts research and develops tools to help education systems place a commitment to equity at the center of their work.
Center X offers a unique setting where researchers and practitioners collaborate to design and conduct programs that prepare and support K-12 education professionals committed to social justice, instructional excellence, the integration of research and practice, and caring in low-income urban schools.
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) research center is dedicated to creating a new generation of research in social sciences and law on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. It has commissioned more than 400 studies, published 14 books, been cited in major Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, and issued numerous reports from authors at universities and research centers across the country.
The Community Archives Lab at UCLA explores the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities.
The Digital Cultures Laboratory (DCL) offers a unique, people-focused analysis of new technologies as they spread across the world. Faculty members and students examine and discuss the means by which new media technologies impact economics, cultures, politics, labor, and the environment through our collaborations with global partners. They share their insights through digital platforms, monthly blog posts, interviews, consultancies, and collaborative research projects.
The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) conducts research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. The HERI research program includes the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity; and houses the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the largest ongoing national study of college students in the U.S.
The Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) seeks to understand and challenge pervasive racial and social class inequalities in education. In addition to conducting research and policy analysis, IDEA supports educators, public officials, advocates, community activists, and young people as they design, conduct, and use research to make high-quality public schools and successful college participation routine occurrences in all communities. IDEA also studies how research combines with strategic communications and public engagement to promote widespread participation in civic life.
The Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education (IGE) conducts multidisciplinary and comparative research engaging policymakers, practitioners, and institutional leaders. The research informs efforts to expand opportunities, reduce barriers, and improve the well-being of diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized students. The work is timely in the context of globalization, which is profoundly changing the developmental contexts, educational trajectories, and life courses of children, adolescents, and young adults.
Momentum employs mixed-methods approaches to conduct cutting-edge research on efforts to diversity computing and technology fields.
The Paulo Freire Institute (PFI) seeks to gather scholars and critics of Freire’s pedagogy in permanent dialog to foster the advancement of new pedagogical theories and concrete interventions in the real world. PFI brings together research, teaching, and technology while concentrating on five major areas: studies of globalization and education, teacher education, a comparative perspective on Latin American education, the politics of education, and Paulo Freire’s political philosophy and critical pedagogy.
The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families is focused on the needs of children and youth who are disconnected from traditional pathways to success, in particular foster youth.
The Sudikoff Family Institute for Education and New Media utilizes the popular press and other media to disseminate the work of SE&IS scholars to policymakers, educators, and the general public. Sudikoff Fellows are selected each year from SE&IS faculty members to enhance awareness of critical issues related to education and information studies, by contributing to a variety of media that reach a lay audience or serve the public interest in some manner.
