Director Biography
Murray J. Haberman is the Executive Director of the California Postsecondary
Education Commission. He has conducted and directed public policy research for over
30 years, and has held numerous senior level positions with the Commission, most
recently as its Director of Communications and as a Senior Policy Analyst.
Prior to his return to the Commission in 2001, Mr. Haberman served for eight years as
Assistant Director at the California Research Bureau -- an independent, nonpartisan
public policy research center that serves the Governor, Constitutional Officers, and
Members of the Legislature. At the Bureau he was responsible for directing and publishing
research on education and human service related issues, including the areas of K-12
education, higher education, health, and welfare.
Mr. Haberman also served as a special consultant to the Little Hoover Commission,
executive staff to the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education,
and as an analyst at the State Department of Finance. He has published many reports and
studies in the area of higher education, including but not limited to the topics of
executive compensation, faculty compensation, long-range planning, enrollment and degree
trends, and finance.
Mr. Haberman holds a bachelors degree in Political Science and in Mass Communications
and Politics from the University of California, Davis, and has completed graduate studies
at California State University, Sacramento. He also attended Tel Aviv University in
Ramat Aviv, Israel where he studied Middle Eastern politics.
He lives in Sacramento with his wife Gail Olshane Haberman. His two
children both attend California public colleges.
