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Michael Presents at College Board’s Prepárate Conference

Michael served as a panelist at “Prepárate: Educating Latinos for the Future of America,” a conference sponsored by the College Board bringing together policy makers, higher education researchers, K-12 administrators and other key stakeholders in an effort to increase college access and completion for latino students.  Audience members asked Michael...

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Andrew Receives AERA Grant

Andrew was recently awarded a research grant in conjunction with the American Education Research Association and National Science Foundation for his work examining the relationship between school counseling and postsecondary enrollment. The AERA/NSF grants program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national...

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Andrew & Michael featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently featured Andrew and Michael’s research examining the predictors of graduate school debt.  In addition to discussing their findings, Chronicle reporter Stacey Patton asked Andrew and Michael to comment on the debt crisis in U.S. graduate education.  In the article, Andrew insists that “the...

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Michael featured in ESPN

ESPN recently featured Michael’s study on the admissions-related effects of changing athletic conferences in “Conference moves: Revenues up, costs up.”  The study, co-authored with Dennis Kramer, shows that schools changing conferences achieve lower admission rates, higher yield rates, and higher ACT scores, even after controlling for other institutional characteristics.

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