Very important and interesting report!
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
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Very important and interesting report!
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
What a great day presenting ongoing work on refugee access to post secondary education and the APPAM equity and inclusion lunch @appam.bsky.social
Thanks!! Same here!
Add me please!
A big congratulations to this year's Equity & Inclusion Young Professional Fellows! Read more about this year's recipients before meeting them at #2025APPAM: https://ow.ly/zq0N50Xe4c5
Out of the country and can’t watch but felt this last season. Something to look forward to when I’m back!
Sharing findings from our ongoing research supported by @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social looking at refugees access to higher education at The Centre for Global Higher Education @ox.ac.uk
www.researchcghe.org/events/navig...
Great start to #IRSPM2025 with the early career panels hearing about some important work related to race and diversity!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it is stopping review of green card applications for some refugees and asylees, leaving in limbo those who came to the U.S. after fleeing unrest.
thehill.com/homenews/521...
More data to share on refugee and displaced persons experiences trying to access higher ed in the US. We need to share these stories of how folks activate and navigate. Free downloads!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TPJV9...
We have loved this so far!
News outlets are reporting that Trump will sign an Exec Order tmrw/Thurs pushing for the Dept of Ed to be closed. The draft order apparently argues that even though the department has spent $1 trillion in federal education dollars over 46 years, the U.S. has not improved in education. [thread]
Don’t be fooled- it isn’t just Columbia. This is a huge blow to the University of Maine.
Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.
Despite the incredible challenges facing refugees and resettlement agencies I am forever grateful for what folks shared. We learned about how they build partnerships to foster the post secondary pathways so desired by displaced folks. Free for first 50 downloads.
academic.oup.com/jrs/article-...
They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.
Events in Washington are (rightfully) getting a lot of attention, but keep an eye on what is going on in states. There are a bunch of bills seeking to restrict campus activities and even tenure.
Gotta tell you, it's not just the WWC contracts (I assume it'll hit the papers this week)
CNN: Some Head Start programs are already unable to access the federal system they use to draw down their federal grant funding, which could force some to close their doors as early as Wednesday, Tommy Sheridan, deputy director of the National Head Start Association, told CNN Tuesday. Head Start serves nearly 800,000 low-income children from birth to age five and their families.
How many moms won't be able to show up for work tomorrow because he cut off the funding for the Head Start programs they rely on for childcare?
The best anti-poverty program is a world class education
Government should pick up more of the tab for education -- I don't even recall this being a major talking point in 2024
www.forbes.com/sites/edward...
Public #highered provides a lot for the broader public admin community when thinking about communication and social justic
Excited to see this piece out. Building on other analysis, this work focuses on public institutions and how this might (we find that it isn’t) be connected to state political landscape.
You know it is almost winter break….the review requests keep rolling in!
Journal page proof website. Journal of Refugee Studies
Page proof time- Excited to see this out online soon!
I don't know if this is getting attention because ((waves arms)), but Michigan's Regents will consider defunding DEI tomorrow. Unlike the situation in Florida or Texas, this is under a board that is 6-2 Democrats.
Hi! I explore refugee/displacement and education. Would love to be added!
I am writing a book chapter on qualitative methods in political science/public policy/public administration.
If you have authored recent papers using QM in these three disciplines, please send them to me! I’d like to read and potentially cite.
raul(.)pacheco(.)vega(@)flacso(.)mx
Screenshot of the article. Title: The Color of Ideas: Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics. Authors: Marlene Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon. NBER Working Paper No. 33150. Published November 2024. JEL No. A14, I23, J15. Abstract reads: This paper investigates the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using the paper citation network in economics. Exploiting a comprehensive dataset of over 330,000 publications from 1950 to 2021, combined with manually collected data from the CVs of thousands of economists, we document that papers authored by non-White scholars (Black, Hispanic, or Asian) receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those authored by White scholars. The citation gap remains or even amplifies with increasing author seniority and conventional quality indicators and is especially pronounced for Black authors. Moreover, papers authored by non-White scholars are less likely to serve as citation bridges and are less often cited by highly cited papers as measured by the centrality indexes, limiting both their direct and indirect influence. Our analysis indicates that this disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. Rather, it is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks, where scholars tend to cite authors from their racial group. These findings can be rationalized by a simple theoretical model where citation costs and peer-review preferences influence citation behavior. Then, we provide suggestive evidence that reducing information friction—thereby lowering the cost of citing—could reduce the racial citation gap by up to 50%. Finally, using natural language processing, we highlight the complementarity across racial groups in research and discuss potential losses from racial barriers to idea diffusion.
When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics.
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
