I'm happy to share the news that I've been promoted to full professor.
I've been thinking a lot about how lucky I’ve been to work with so many great people. A partial list follows:
I’m deeply grateful to Pat Callan and Joni Finney for getting me started in this work and providing me with an example of how to be a passionate advocate for increased opportunity for higher education.
In grad school I was incredibly lucky to have stellar academic mentors, including the amazing Myra Strober as my advisor, along with @Michael_Kirst , Susanna Loeb, and Anthony Antonio.
At @vupeabody , I’ve been so fortunate to work with exceptionally supportive senior colleagues, including John Braxton, Ellen Goldring, @CJ_Heinrich, @gthenry4 , Joe Murphy and Tom Smith. Dean Benbow has supported me every step of the way.
I get to collaborate with incredibly smart people, including Jennifer Delaney, Bill Zumeta, @jimhearn4 (who hired me in the first place), @cmokher and Michael McLendon.
I’ve also been lucky enough to have truly wonderful students who have gone on to do great work, including @bakerdphd, @rslbliss , @MaryHutchensPhD, Jungmin Lee, @ChrisMarsicano , Alex Gorbunov, Justin Shepherd, @btskinner and Timothy Zeidner.
I truly love doing this work, in no small part because I get to do it with such great people. There are many more than are on this list-- I'm grateful for all.
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3/ Second, I did NOT include required fees in the calculation of median tuition! The updated number is $4,653, the average of WV and OK. Thanks to (you guessed it) @LadermanSophia and @kelsey_kunkle and @david_socolow for this correction as well.
1/ The Biden plan for free community college represents a huge change in how the federal government funds higher education.
2/ For the first time, the federal government will directly fund states to cover the full cost of tuition for students, using a large scale federal-state matching plan that is similar in some ways to how the federal government funds health care or transportation.
3/ Over the last few days I’ve been trying to answer the following questions:
Which institutions in each state will be eligible? How much will the plan provide? How much will states have to pay? What will be the effective subsidy among all college students by state?
The full impact of downturns in the economy take some time to reach higher education. Without action by the federal government to assist states, higher education in most states is facing severe cuts, likely to be larger than those incurred during the Great Recession. 1/N
There is time to act, but the window is closing. State policymakers and higher education leaders are planning now for budget cuts that will reduce student access. 2/N
Why do I think this? I spent the last few days reading state budget guidance documents for Fiscal 2022.
We're working on this in a really different way-- inspired by @drob's talk on "Unreasonable effectiveness of public work" (tinyurl.com/ugggdkv) we're posting everything that we do publicly on github. 2/n
Please feel free to comment and suggest improvements or changes! We're working in #rstats, using the #tidyverse as the basis for much of the work. 3/n
I took a look at the state-level subsidy implied by the Warren plan for free tuition: willdoyle.us/files/2019-04-… 1/6
Bottom line: A few states–Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Michigan— will receive in excess of $6,000 per student, while several large states– Texas, California, Florida– will get less than half that. 2/6
Any plan that guarantees free tuition at public colleges has to grapple with two issues: 3/6