Mitchell L Stevens
@mitchellatedf
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Stanford sociologist
Stanford University
Joined May 2012
RT @CASBSStanford: 🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE. "The Humanity of Connective Labor". @mitchellatedf engages 2016-17 CASBS fellow @allison_p….
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RT @HigherEdNick: Eight months ago, after a long career in journalism, I joined @ACEducation to fight for higher education. But why do we….
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I'm reading: Can the End of Affirmative Action Serve as an Opportunity? SLS’s Ralph Richard Banks Discusses at via @StanfordLaw.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions in June 2023, universities have been grappling
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RT @CALaborSec: Had a wonderful time this week at @SDCCEEDU for @CalCommColleges Chancellor's Office’s Vision 2030: A Call to Action – Adul….
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Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter
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There are two Americas, and they are divided by a college degree.
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‘The Untouchables’: How Columbia and N.Y.U. Benefit From Huge Tax Breaks
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As New York City’s budget tightens, its wealthiest universities are bigger and richer than ever. Now, some officials think it’s time for the schools to pay more in taxes.
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Wrestling With Inequality, Some Conservatives Redraw Economic Blueprint
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A growing number of Republican politicians and theorists are challenging party orthodoxy on pocketbook issues, corporate power and government’s role.
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Some very smart thinking on the student-loan mess in NYT:
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During the pandemic, the U.S. paused regular payments for student loans. But repayment was dwindling for at least a decade before that.
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Richard Arum and I have a piece with Bui Quoctrung in today's NYT re race in admissions. Wondering what this crew thinks.
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The loss of affirmative action is an opportunity to refocus on supporting middle- and lower-tiered colleges.
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Opportunity@Work's Papia Debroy testifies to House Committee on Education and the workforce on creating opportunities for working learners:
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This morning, Senior VP of Insights Papia Debroy gave powerful testimony to the Congressional Committee on Education & the Workforce on the importance of #skillsbasedhiring and creating more opport...
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The latest from the always provocative Dalton Conley via @NewYorker.
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A thought experiment in social reshuffling.
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Delighted to share an anchor paper from Stanford Pathways Lab, "rom pipelines to pathways in the study of academic progress," out today in -Science-
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Students and administrators can benefit from new analytics
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Delighted to announce the Winter 2023 lineup of the Pathways Lab seminar -- terrific new work in the science of academic progress: All are welcome!.
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New research from Stanford Pathways Lab models the relationship between first college courses and subsequent majors. Even the very first enrolled course carries signal for major field:
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Committing to a major is a fateful step in an undergraduate education, yet the relationship between courses taken early in an academic career and ultimate major...
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One modest way universities can try to fix themselves:
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Dealing with bigoted chapters in their past could help universities regain public trust.
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