Ooooooooh. “I Don’t Even Talk About It”: Applying Ray’s Theory of Racialized Organizations to Class Stratification in Academia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this paper, we develop a working theory examining how the organizational apparatuses of colleges and universities, as well as larger trends in higher education, contribute to unequal outcomes fo...
Scientists: Also, best not to ask for marriage advice from long-married couples.
After the scotus admission decision, MIT & its enrollment alone do not worry me. But these trends replicating at other institutions would, which is part of the reason institutional policy decisions (which I get into more in the article) can matter so much. www.chronicle.com/article/afte...
"clue" originally meant "a ball of string" (spelt clew) since Theseus used a ball of string to find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth, "clue/clew" became a metaphor for "thing that helps you solve a puzzle" or "thing that points you in the right direction"
And President Kornbluth’s letter to the community: president.mit.edu/writing-spee...
Here’s Schmill’s blog post: “… when there are now fewer African-American first-years enrolling at MIT than when I was a freshman more than forty years ago, that cannot possibly be the right outcome for our community.” mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/...
technology and the dream, deferred
A drop from 25% to 16%. This will be used as evidence that Black & Brown applicants are (and have been) less qualified to be admitted to and succeed at MIT, despite Schmill’s eloquent (albeit heavily footnoted) statement to the contrary. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/21/m...
The Cambridge institution is one of the first major universities to release demographic data for its incoming class since the landmark ruling.
A public service announcement from your friendly survey research provider. [Also, for real people, acknowledge your missing data and nonresponse bias! psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-...
In tenure decisions, context matters. New research from Lauren Rivera et al uses an experiment to show that including Covid impact statements in tenure files leads to more favorable decisions, because it helps evaluators recognize structural constraints. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...
