Director, Analytic Studies, Academic Research
California State University
Office of the Chancellor

Dr. Philip Garcia, Director of Analytic Studies, has a long history with the California State University system, first coming the Chancellor's Office in 1986. In 2002, Dr. Garcia returned to the Chancellor's Office, following three years dedicated to helping Notre Dame faculty establish that university's Institute for Latino Research.

During his three-year stay at Notre Dame, Dr. Garcia was the research director for all extramural projects, and he authored Understanding Obstacles and Barriers to Hispanic Baccalaureates, a project-report sponsored by the Hispanic Scholarship Foundation. He attained Census Information Center status from the Census Bureau for the Institute and published monthly articles on the changing demographics of Latinos. He also taught in sociology and coordinated the activities of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a 16-member consortium of university-based think tanks.

For most of his first thirteen consecutive years with the Chancellor's Office, Dr. Garcia served as the Deputy Director of Analytic Studies, where he conducted studies on graduation rates, time-to-degree, transfer rates, and academic survival among high-risk students. He also conducted several enrollment-demand studies associated with initiating campus operations at San Marcos, Monterey Bay, and Channel Islands. Dr. Garcia has published work on the efficacy of student-retention programs and on how to project enrollments at public colleges and universities.

Before coming to the Chancellor’s Office in 1986, Dr. Garcia held research and teaching appointments at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, and he has been a visiting professor at several campuses of the University of California. Philip has published articles on the unemployment record and earning power of certain segments of the Latino labor force, as well as ethnic settlement patterns in Los Angeles County. Dr. Garcia received his bachelor's degree from California State University, Fullerton, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematical sociology from UCLA.