
Tara P. Nicola
@tarapnicola
Higher education researcher. @Harvard PhD, @UniofOxford & @JohnsHopkins alumna. Passionate about college admission, New Jersey🥯 & dragon boating 🐉.
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New The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford and Harvard CEPR data from 41 states! sean reardon and Tom Kane with a balanced op-ed, "schools cannot just 'hurry up.'" Great paper by them, Erin Fahle, et al linked therein finds links with COVID deaths, anxiety, institutional trust... nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Happy Say Something Nice Day. Delaware.gov, we love how easy it is to drive through your state to get to New Jersey.



🚨 NEW PAPER: How do emerging "direct admissions" policies impact students' college application and enrollment behaviors? We leverage a massive experiment (32k students across 4 states) in partnership with the Common App & 6 universities to find out: tinyurl.com/DirectAdmissio…




Our EOP The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford project is hiring a data analyst. Come work with sean reardon, Erin Fahle, @BenjaminRShear, and a great team to measure and improve educational opportunity! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/eop-data-…



Very happy to see direct admissions (and our work) highlighted by the Biden-Harris Administration! Check out U.S. Department of Education's new Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education: ed.gov/news/press-rel… UW–Madison School of Education WCER Poverty Research IRP datascience@uw



Thank you to Anthony Abraham Jack, @MSavitzRomer, Eric Waldo, and Francesca Purcell for an insightful #EducationNow episode! Take a look at their key takeaways below about how different groups can navigate the new college application process.


HEP author Tara P. Nicola co-wrote an article for Gallup News, which delves into a study that found that "less than half of U.S. adults (41%) believe businesses should take a public stance on current events." bit.ly/3FknNoA

"Granting LIFG students the ‘right’ to access campus resources is not enough to ensure they benefit from them.” Read more from Becca S. Bassett in the Fall 2023 issue of #HarvardEdReview: bit.ly/3t4qjwb


