Salon Series: Ozan Jacquette & Greg Leazer
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. November 4,2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST
About the speakers:
Dr. Ozan Jacquette is an associate professor of higher education in the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies. His research specializations are organizational behavior, enrollment management, higher education finance, and higher education policy. His research program analyzes how postsecondary institutions change behavior to generate enrollment from desired student populations. His past research analyzes the causes and consequences of out-of-state enrollment growth by public universities. His current research program analyzes the recruiting behavior of colleges and universities and the growing role of third-party edtech organizations in college access and student recruiting.
Dr. Greg Leazer is an associate professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies and served for six years as its chair. He conducts research on the organization of information and knowledge, the social construction of classifications, how people seek and use information, and models of knowledge production. He is also interested in the role of libraries in public education, and addressing the public school library crisis in California. He has helped direct, educated and written critically on global efforts to catalog, organize and provide access to written knowledge, and he conducts research using bibliometric methods, that is quantitive methods used to measure and assess various features about books and other forms of knowledge, especially citation-based metrics. He has worked previously as a librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, and is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation.