Scott Brenden, Ph.D.
@globalodeon
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📊🎓🗺 🌵🌴 Leader. Inspirer. Solution Finder. Solver of Puzzles. We before Me. #HigherEd Researcher @ASU, PhD @UArizona, BA @USC. #data #transfer #rankings
Joined July 2009
. @Btippens, @leahewingross, & @waytnomore sharing the Analytics Playbook jointly developed by @NACUBO, @air4data, and @educause with grant from @gatesfoundation . #airforum2024
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At elite private #colleges, #legacies (kids of #alumni) are 33% more qualified but 300% more likely to be admitted vs. similar #applicants w/same #SAT/#ACT test scores. 🤯 https://t.co/wFKkmRWPBH
#highered #inequality #wealth #RajChetty @OppInsights @Harvard @Yale @Princeton
nytimes.com
In the same week as a civil rights inquiry into Harvard, new data shows legacies are slightly more qualified yet are four times as likely to get into top schools.
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For applicants w/same #SAT/#ACT score, children from families in top 1% were 34% more likely to get admitted to an #IvyLeague #college. Those from top 0.1% were twice as likely to get in. https://t.co/0JuVIkYO6p
#RajChetty #highered #inequality #admissions
nytimes.com
Extraordinarily detailed data shows how elite colleges prefer the richest students, even among students with similar test scores.
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To expand #access after #AffirmativeAction, #college.s can boost need-based #financialaid and admit more #comm_college #transfer #students. -@JoshWyner
https://t.co/Y2grlYwwc5
@AspenInstitute #highered #race #racism #HigherEducation #scotus @Harvard @UNC
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Non-selective #college.s = engines of #mobility. Supporting them will do far more to advance the cause of racial #equality than @Harvard or @UNC. https://t.co/wYxEmRiO4T
@mitchellatedf @qdbui #equity #AffirmativeAction #highered #race
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After dropping preference, @AmherstCollege #legacy #admissions drop from 11% to 6%. 19% are #1stgen. https://t.co/TRrTpI2Pfg
#highered #equity @ScottJaschik @insidehighered @JohnsHopkins @MIT @MattMcGann
insidehighered.com
This is the first year in which they did not receive a preference.
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.@ASU #1 in US for @UN @SDGoals by @timeshighered & #1 for: -No #Poverty -#Education -Clean #Water -Decent #Work -#Equality -#Climate Action -Life on Land -#Peace & #Justice
@michaelcrow @GonzalesNancyA @maria_anguiano @sallycmorton @DaveWhiteASU
https://t.co/wTidVrVPNS
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.@usnews to drop some #college #rankings metrics favoring #wealthy #schools/#students: #alumni #giving, #faculty w/#terminaldegree, #classsize & HS standing. Keeping $/student, #salaries, %FT, stu-fac ratio. https://t.co/zyg4WmArLi
@USNewsEducation #highered
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.@usnews says it didn’t commit to a particular mathematical model for its new #rankings until @USNewsEducation ran simulations to see the outcomes, violating fundamental research standards. https://t.co/g3T1mt0Mbv
#inequality #highered #HigherEducation
wsj.com
After Yale Law said it would no longer cooperate with the survey, a wave of law, medical and undergraduate schools quickly followed. The revolt had been decades in the making.
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.@CommonApp hoped its efforts would help #1stgen, older, and #lowincome students transfer to 4yr #universities, but #white, wealthy #students are still overrepresented in #transfer. https://t.co/LYCrFQu9NK
#highered #equity @KatherineMangan #communitycollege
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.@AspenInstitute #communitycollege Prize to @AmarilloCollege & @ivcollege. IV staff teach #dualenrollment to 1500 #students at all 9 area #highschool.s - 93% #Hispanic.Result: 80% attend #college; high tfr rates.#highered
https://t.co/3gVKwQAsbX
@KatherineMangan
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At current rates, #diversity in #US #faculty will never reach #racial #parity. https://t.co/PRn0xQTaGg
@natematias @NeilLewisJr @HopesPsychology @paddywjack #inequality #race #discrimination #highered #representation #highereducation
timeshighereducation.com
But analysis says faculty could become representative of the wider population within three decades if universities make meaningful shifts in hiring
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#Wealth & #prestige ruled #highereducation before #rankings & would continue to rule if rankings vanished tomorrow. https://t.co/1h4GFjwEDz
#highered @usnews @Yale @Harvard @UCBerkeley @Columbia @Georgetown @Stanford @DukeU @UMich @NorthwesternU @UCLA
chronicle.com
College reputations are fixed, valuable, and based on almost no hard evidence.
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New @McKinsey study: only 9% of R1 #research #universities have #student bodies #representative of the 18-25 year old #demographics of their #states - & at this rate it will 70 yrs to get there. https://t.co/TWJl2sB9m2
#equity #race #dei #highered
mckinsey.com
We explore how US academic institutions can leverage teaching, learning, and scholarship to achieve greater racial and ethnic equity in higher education.
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4/4 Top #universities should withdraw from activities like rankings, that are corrosive to #highered. By doing all this, they will fulfill their core mission of creating/preserving/disseminating #knowledge for the good of #society. https://t.co/AWLvHQsrTD
@HGSE
chronicle.com
Colleges should ease off the branding and remember their shared values.
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3/4 Elite #universities should tell their #government-relations teams to #lobby for #policies that benefit the sector. They sh challenge applying #antitrust legislation to limit cooperative action that helps #highered as a whole https://t.co/AWLvHQsrTD
@HGSE
chronicle.com
Colleges should ease off the branding and remember their shared values.
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2/4 #Universities w/secure brands should allow #students from nearby institutions to enroll in classes, & support #faculty #research at those institutions. https://t.co/AWLvHQsrTD
@HGSE #highered
chronicle.com
Colleges should ease off the branding and remember their shared values.
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1/4 #Universities w/secure brands should create alliances w/less wealthy neighbors to share #journal subscriptions/#library collectns, provide thr recent PhDs w/#postdoc fellowshps to teach at partner schools for 3 yrs https://t.co/AWLvHQsrTD
@HGSE #highered
chronicle.com
Colleges should ease off the branding and remember their shared values.
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New survey: over 30 yrs, more #PhD.s are finding work in other sectors bc #academe doesn't pay, fewer #jobs in #academia, & #faculty #employment is down while #postdoc.s are up. https://t.co/yDuBOqFdnM
@audreywjune #highered @NSF #tenure #industry #gradschool
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