Tara P. Nicola (@tarapnicola) 's Twitter Profile
Tara P. Nicola

@tarapnicola

Higher education researcher. @Harvard PhD, @UniofOxford & @JohnsHopkins alumna. Passionate about college admission, New Jersey🥯 & dragon boating 🐉.

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Andrew Ho (@andrewdeanho) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Tara P. Nicola (@tarapnicola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After 5 rewrites, three rejections, and a foray into the world of institutional theory, my article on the origins of the recommended student to counselor ratio has a home. The takeaway: the 250-to-1 ratio has no empirical backing. Stop citing it! lnkd.in/gWdu6wun

Eric Hoover (@erichoov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Colleges that want to promote character among applicants are going to ask themselves what their admission and aid practices reveal about the character of their own institutions, right?

Taylor Odle (@taylor_odle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 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…

🚨 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 <a href="/CommonApp/">Common App</a> &amp; 6 universities to find out: tinyurl.com/DirectAdmissio…
Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New: The latest Gallup data shows the public is souring on American education — but parents continue to give their own child's school high marks. This disconnect remains near an all-time high. chalkbeat.org/2023/9/5/23859…

New: The latest Gallup data shows the public is souring on American education — but parents continue to give their own child's school high marks. This disconnect remains near an all-time high. chalkbeat.org/2023/9/5/23859…
Andrew Ho (@andrewdeanho) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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-…

Our EOP <a href="/seda_data/">The Educational Opportunity Project @ Stanford</a> project is hiring a data analyst. Come work with <a href="/seanfreardon/">sean reardon</a>, <a href="/FahleErin/">Erin Fahle</a>, @BenjaminRShear, and a great team to measure and improve educational opportunity!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/eop-data-…
Harvard Education Press (@harvard_ed_pub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Perceptions of the importance and affordability of postsecondary education among Gen Z members are particularly critical given the challenges facing the higher education sector." —Tara P. Nicola in her piece for Gallup bit.ly/3riHObI

Taylor Odle (@taylor_odle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Very happy to see direct admissions (and our work) highlighted by the Biden-Harris Administration! Check out <a href="/usedgov/">U.S. Department of Education</a>'s new Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education: ed.gov/news/press-rel… <a href="/UWMadEducation/">UW–Madison School of Education</a> <a href="/WCER_UW/">WCER</a> <a href="/IRP_UW/">Poverty Research IRP</a> <a href="/datascience_uw/">datascience@uw</a>
Christopher Cleveland (@christocleve) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Massachusetts leaders have invested in a wonderful data resource and I’m proud to be part of the Research Advisory Committee supporting this state priority 📊

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) (@hgse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

Thank you to <a href="/tony_jack/">Anthony Abraham Jack</a>, @MSavitzRomer, <a href="/ewwaldo/">Eric Waldo</a>, 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.
Harvard Education Press (@harvard_ed_pub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Harvard Education Press (@harvard_ed_pub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"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

Brian Heseung Kim (@brhkim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What does it mean to be a “first-generation college student?" This probably sounds like a wildly straightforward question to many in the education world, but what if I told you there are 100+ different answers I could give – each reasonable+distinct? (1/9) commonapp.org/files/23-24_Co…

What does it mean to be a “first-generation college student?" This probably sounds like a wildly straightforward question to many in the education world, but what if I told you there are 100+ different answers I could give – each reasonable+distinct? (1/9)
commonapp.org/files/23-24_Co…
AJ Alvero (@aj_alvero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Article about new research on AI and college admissions essays. Important to remember that human language is constantly changing, and if orgs adopt these kinds of tools they could introduce new forms of longstanding disparities if they don't consider this! chalkbeat.org/colorado/2023/…

Jill Barshay (@jillbarshay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The drop in FAFSA (financial aid form) completions by state is jaw dropping. Look at CA. by the amazing Phil Hill onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…

The drop in FAFSA (financial aid form) completions by state is jaw dropping. Look at CA. by the amazing <a href="/PhilOnEdTech/">Phil Hill</a> onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…