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pathways lab @pathways_lab

Our mission is to understand how aspirations, identities and learning opportunities coevolve to shape lives and life chances.

Joined August 2020
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No Degree? No Problem. Biden Tries to Bridge the ‘Diploma Divide.’ nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/po…
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Delighted to share an anchor paper from Pathways Lab, out today in -Science- science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

From pipelines to pathways in the study of academic progress

Students and administrators can benefit from new analytics

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Delighted to announce the Winter 2023 lineup of the Pathways Lab seminar: pathwayslab.stanford.edu/sem… All are welcome!
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Growing divides among voters a challenge for higher ed insidehighered.com/news/2022…

Growing divides among voters a challenge for higher ed

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New research from Stanford Pathways Lab shows the relationship between early college courses and subsequent major. Even the very first enrolled course shows strong signal of subsequent major: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Forecasting Undergraduate Majors: A Natural Language Approach - David Lang, Alex Wang, Nathan...

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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University of Hypocrisy theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

University of Hypocrisy

Why liberal college professors can’t admit their own complicity

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The "paper ceiling" doesn’t just hurt the 50% of the US workforce that lacks a four-year degree — it also hamstrings US businesses already struggling with  labor shortages bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Bosses Can Beat the Tight Labor Market by Tearing the Paper Ceiling

Arbitrary degree requirements may be holding the US back from a full recovery.

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Great thinking from a UK colleague on investing in ideas and talent via unis: hepi.ac.uk/2022/09/20/dont-l…

Don't lose sight of the future - a challenge for the new PM - HEPI

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group. The immediate challenge for the new Prime Minister will rightly be the cost-of-living crisis, closely...

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Lab co-lead John Mitchell encourages educators to take lessons from the pandemic and move forward boldly: hechingerreport.org/opinion-…

OPINION: As students return to campus, higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic

After interviewing college presidents, students and professors, I’m sure we can create a better future and solve old problems in new ways

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Lawsuit Charges For-Profit University Preyed on Black and Female Students nytimes.com/2022/04/08/us/po…
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College Became the Default. Let’s Rethink That. nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opini…
A plan to inject social equity into Carnegie's classifications insidehighered.com/news/2022…

A plan to inject social equity into Carnegie's classifications

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UCLA criticized for advertising adjunct job without pay insidehighered.com/news/2022…

UCLA criticized for advertising adjunct job without pay

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New study explores how to use chat bots to retain students insidehighered.com/news/2022…
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New work from Stanford Pathways Lab on the serious role of religion in educational attainment in the US: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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Important new work on the effect of online online learning and college completion journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Increasing Success in Higher Education: The Relationships of Online Course Taking With College...

Online courses provide flexible learning opportunities, but research suggests that students may learn less and persist at lower rates compared to face-to-face s...

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Stanford Center on Longevity Releases New Map of Life, calls for radical change in education and learning longevity.stanford.edu/the-n…
College admissions based on “soft” criteria like personal essays are less equitable than numerical criteria like SAT scores. wsj.com/articles/inconvenien… via @WSJOpinion

Opinion | Inconvenient Facts for the War on Testing

College admission based on personal essays helps affluent students.

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Excited to share a new study on course consideration from the Pathways Lab! See link below for more on our new AERA Open article by @tummykungz, @tobias_dalberg, @marissaelena94, S. Giebel, @BespeakMonique, @rameshjohari, @mitchellatedf, and @whynotyet. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Studying Undergraduate Course Consideration at Scale - Sorathan Chaturapruek, Tobias Dalberg,...

Elective curriculums require undergraduates to choose from a large roster of courses for enrollment each term. It has proven difficult to characterize this fate...

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René Kizilcec@whynotyet
15 Feb 2021
4/Given eventual major, the types of courses students consider in their first year matches the types of courses they enroll in. So interventions targeting enrollment patterns should attend to students' consideration sets, which tend to be shaped by their social networks.
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