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Brian and Robin Jacob salute WSU guaranteed enrollment program

Oct 9, 2025 Bridge Michigan

Speaking to Bridge Michigan, Brian and Robin Jacob offered their excitments about Wayne State University's new Warriors on the Rise program. The program offers guaranteed enrollment to qualified high school juniors at Detroit Public Schools Community...

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Owen-Smith describes transactional relationship between government and universities

Apr 16, 2025 Associated Press

“The government gets to basically treat a generally decentralized national system of universities as a pay-as-you-go resource to get problems solved,” the Ford School's Jason Owen-Smith told the Associated Press. Owen-Smith discussed ways that the go...

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Stange receives federal grant to classify college courses at scale

Oct 4, 2024

Research on college course taking, and what students learn while attending college have historically been hampered by inconsistent course titles and numbers across multiple institutions. Education economist Kevin Stange and a research team from the F...

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As southern universities draw students from the north, Owen-Smith declares growth for local economies

Sep 27, 2024 The Wall Street Journal

Over the past two decades, southern universities have seen large jumps in enrollment of students from the northern region of the US. These increases have had positive impacts on economic growth for the southern universities' local economies. Ford Sch...

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Stevenson links technological advancement to income inequality

Jan 20, 2023 The Economist

Betsey Stevenson, The Economist: "I think that's a fair assessment, and I think the question is, why? And that's where the complications come in. Some of that is from what economists call skill-biased technological change. So we've seen the wages of ...

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Weed-out classes disproportionately discourage minority students - Thompson

Jan 5, 2022 Boston Herald

Studies found that "weed-out classes," or classes that are often foundational for a certain educational track and have high enrollment, often disproportionately weed out minority students, according to Marissa Thompson, a postdoctoral fellow in educa...

In NYT, Susan Dynarski compares student debt on international scale

Apr 27, 2018

Susan Dynarski and Matthew Chingos of the Urban Institute devised a March Madness bracket-style tournament comparing tuition and loan systems in their April 2 article, “An international final four: which country handles student debt best?” They gathe...

Susan Dynarski in NYT, “A conveyor belt of dropouts and debt at for-profit colleges”

Oct 31, 2016

Susan Dynarski, in Sunday’s New York Times, describes for-profit colleges as having “a conveyor belt of dropouts and debt.” Dynarski points out that enrollment at for-profit colleges has jumped, especially since the Great Recession, when increased fe...

Stange on a new measure of college quality, effects of sector and peers on degree attainment

Oct 19, 2016

“A New Measure of College Quality to Study the Effects of College Sector and Peers on Degree Attainment,” a journal article by Jonathan Smith and Kevin Stange, has been published in the fall 2016 edition of Education Finance and Policy. AbstractStude...

Justin Wolfers in New York Times article examining unemployment rates for college graduates

May 3, 2013

Justin Wolfers was quoted in a New York Times article, "College Graduates Fare Well in Jobs Market, Even Through Recession," which discusses data from a recent U.S. Department of Labor report.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the overall un...

Susan Dynarski was quoted in a Detroit Free Press article, "More aid and debt relief set for cash-strapped college students"

Jan 17, 2009

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Higher Education and Economic Growth in Michigan: Looking Back and Looking Ahead on the Fifth Anniversary of the Cherry Commission

Dec 10, 2009, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

Weill Hall

In 2004, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm charged the Lieutenant Governor's Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth with identifying strategies to improve postsecondary attainment and completion in Michigan.

EPI Speaker Series

Can Educational Outcomes Be Improved in Community Colleges? Recent Evidence from Two Randomized Trials

Jan 22, 2008, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Abstract: Community colleges today enroll over one-half of all college students nationwide or nearly 12 million students. And yet, fewer than 40% of those who start at a public two-year college earn any type of degree within six years. Even among those students who intend to complete a degree, only about one-third do so within six years.

All-Ford School screening of STEP

Jan 12, 2018, 4:00 pm EST

Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium

Join the Ford School, APPLE, SCPP, and WGPP for a special Ford School-only screening of the documentary film STEP.

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Regression discontinuity in college math recommendations

Jan 27, 2016, 8:30-10:00 am EST

Weill Hall, Room 3240

A presentation by Julian HSU, PhD student in Economics

college

Brian and Robin Jacob salute WSU guaranteed enrollment program

Owen-Smith describes transactional relationship between government and universities

Stange receives federal grant to classify college courses at scale

As southern universities draw students from the north, Owen-Smith declares growth for local economies

Stevenson links technological advancement to income inequality

Weed-out classes disproportionately discourage minority students - Thompson

In NYT, Susan Dynarski compares student debt on international scale

Susan Dynarski in NYT, “A conveyor belt of dropouts and debt at for-profit colleges”

Stange on a new measure of college quality, effects of sector and peers on degree attainment

Justin Wolfers in New York Times article examining unemployment rates for college graduates

Susan Dynarski was quoted in a Detroit Free Press article, "More aid and debt relief set for cash-strapped college students"

Higher Education and Economic Growth in Michigan: Looking Back and Looking Ahead on the Fifth Anniversary of the Cherry Commission

Can Educational Outcomes Be Improved in Community Colleges? Recent Evidence from Two Randomized Trials

All-Ford School screening of STEP

Regression discontinuity in college math recommendations

Barbara Schneider: Introduction to college going in Michigan: A first look at impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum

Eric Bettinger: Information and college attendance: Evidence from a randomized trial

CLOSUP Panel: For-profit colleges: Education or exploitation?