Join the Doctoral Student Community Group’s pre-conference webinar series 🧑💻
TOMORROW at 12 PM & 3 PM ET, they’ll host a session on navigating #AEFP2026 as a doctoral student. Register today! aefpweb.org/ev_calen...
Thinking of running an RCT in postsecondary education?
MDRC has created a fantastic set of resources to help you in projecting minimum effect sizes, randomizing, and processing data
Proud to have helped advise this project!
www.mdrc.org/the-rct
This is very good reporting. We live in an uncivilized country.
Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1.
www.peer-center.org/research/sum...
So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
Has wokeness gone too far?
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
one of the key benefits of having a federal Dept of Ed has been having a dedicated, experienced professional staff to ensure all students have equal opportunity for an excellent education. this threatens to undo that
The polls are open, Pennsylvania!
Our democracy is stronger when we all participate – so if you haven’t already, be sure to cast your ballot before 8pm.
For more information, head to pa.gov/vote and make your voice heard.
I’m joining 24 other states in taking legal action to demand the Trump Administration release SNAP payments that help millions put food on the table.
We won’t stand by while the President lets our kids go hungry.
This is why we need to donate to food banks now.
🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
It is an increasingly crummy and unstable job. Rather than worry about pay you should be concerned about the fact that faculty and students have less and less of a voice in their selection, turning college presidents into political appointees
That “may” in the headline is hilariously bad.
Cementing rich white rule is (and has long been) the point of most GOP policy and that is definitely the case for selective admissions.
one of my favorite things about knowing so many amazing researchers is hearing them on @npr.org! I woke up to texts this morning from people saying they heard @asherrosinger.bsky.social talking about hydration!! www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
would LOVE that!!
have this one sitting in my office!!! haven't had a chance to read it yet but am excited to dig into it this fall!!
🚨 🚨 New dataset 🚨 🚨
I'm excited to share a new dataset + companion paper covering SNAP policy changes & enrollment data, with a focus on COVID-19-era reforms.
📊https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/sbeccc/studies/39331
📄https://kelseypukelis.com/files/Pukelis_SNAPcovid.pdf
A thread🧵
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It's the same story with Obamacare as with Medicaid, food stamps, student financial aid, and even vaccines. They're not eliminating assistance entirely--at least for now. Just making programs so shitty and so hard to access that no one will miss that support when it's eventually eliminated later on.
Screenshot of the top of the article published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Title is Race below the fold: The absence of race in the news media's coverage of student loans. Written by me, Lauren Shook, Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza, and Christopher Bennett. Abstract reads: The media discourse on student loans plays a significant role in the way that policy actors conceptualize challenges and potential solutions related to student debt. This study examines language that explicitly indicates race and racism in student loan articles published in eight major newspapers from 2006 to 2021. We found that 18% of articles use any of this language, though use has accelerated since 2018. This increase appears driven by terms that denote groups of people instead of structural problems, with 8% of articles mentioning “Black” in a racialized context but less than 1% mentioning “racism.” These findings emphasize the importance of treating the media as a policy actor capable of shaping the salience of racialization in discussions about student loans.
Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy.
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
A basic red line for defending academic freedom would be not turning over faculty data because they signed an open letter.
is anyone thinking about a selective college admissions panel proposal for @appam.bsky.social this year? if you're looking for another paper or have a paper in need of a session, reach out!
The College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative, with Associate Professor @kellyrosinger.bsky.social as a key partner, has secured a $560K grant to study the long-term impact of test-optional admissions on student success—aiming to inform more equitable policies. bit.ly/424Otob
The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services.
This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor).
It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...
Trump can’t gut USED on his own. But crucial funds are still at risk.
That’s at least $195 million dollars for kids and families in my district, the MI 7th @RepTomBarrett
Find how much is at stake in your district w/this new data tool @UmichPoverty 👇
poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...
New, from me: I’ve been writing about the damage done at the federal level, but am also looking for positive examples.
Permitting reform in PA is one such case.
Rapid and positive change is possible by improving state capacity rather than destroying it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/permitting...
Why we have and need a US Department of Education
🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does
www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
