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Elizabeth Burland (she/her)

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Spend a lot of time thinking about education inequality, financial aid policy, decision making | Assistant Research Professor at UConn School of Public Policy elizabethburland.com

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Natasha Pilkauskas @natashap.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to help with work on a project to study the Michigan school meals program (universal meals). Come work with me and Kathy Michelmore! @kmichelmore.bsky.social edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j...
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The University of Michigan seeks candidates to become active members of the Education Policy Initiative. Our research group brings together a interdisciplinary set of scholars focused on the generatio...
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Education Policy Initiative @edpolicyford.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're hiring! EPI is currently accepting applications for up to two Postdoctoral Fellows in Quantitative Methods, Education Research, and Data. Visit our website to learn more: edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j... Applications will be reviewed starting July 27th. Apply here: forms.gle/DknZEtRmuBrN...
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The University of Michigan seeks candidates to become active members of the Education Policy Initiative. Our research group brings together a interdisciplinary set of scholars focused on the generatio...
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If only we had evidence on the effects of abortion bans of migration for policymakers to consider… Oh wait, we do! www.nber.org/papers/w33328
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Are People Fleeing States with Abortion Bans?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"Our students are not wilting flowers. They can handle controversy. They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we've given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed."
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University of Michigan professor defends pro-Palestinian commencement remarks: "Michigan is not a finishing school"
"The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous," University of Michigan history professor Derek Peterson said as a follow-up to his graduation day remarks.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I always find it funny when stuff like this pops out because a) it's frequently pitched as being about "higher ed" instead of yale and b) there's almost never a higher ed scholar who maybe studies these things for a living
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you want to be focused on the next big higher ed problem, you want to be following accreditation news (and Eric is one of my go to sources for that info)
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Administrative burdens are political tools. Add administrative requirements or automate them depending on your goal.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The doctoral student community group organized a terrific lineup of virtual sessions for conference prep! 🎉 Check them out here: aefpweb.org/calendar_lis... #AEFP2026
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is a huge win for higher ed! Unfortunately, many institutions complied in advance and already folded many of their DEI efforts. This is an example of why it’s so important to resist until there is no other option. Most of the programs that were terminated won’t be resurrected. What a loss.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
two images of an arrest, one digitally altered by the White House to make it look like the arrestee is crying
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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NPR @npr.org · 10/01/2026
Federal officials are targeting Democratic-led states over alleged safety-net fraud. Critics worry a drumbeat of unfounded accusations could undermine public trust.
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Influencer, White House welfare fraud claims are distorted, but the system has risks
Federal officials are targeting Democratic-led states over alleged safety-net fraud. Critics worry a drumbeat of unfounded accusations could undermine public trust.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you think the elections in November are going to fix this you are delusional. Every year, regardless of leadership, ICE’s budget went up, every year our borders became more violent. This is an escalation yes, but a chapter of a much longer novel.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?" If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
The basic sequence of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday is not in dispute: A Honda Pilot reversed, then moved forward; an ICE agent was close to the vehicle; the agent fired shots. A 37-year-old woman was killed.

But that sequence has been interpreted in radically different ways. Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him? Was he positioned in front of the vehicle or to the side? Did he have a genuine, reasonable fear for his life in that moment, or did he create the very danger he then used lethal force to escape?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the headline is "disputed shooting" rather than straightforwardly telling the public what happened this rewards the DHS for lying about these events
NY Times headline Live Updates: Minneapolis Mayor Disputes Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/01/2026
Keeping the social safety net as small and as punitive as possible helps to ensure that there will always be a steady stream of people for employers like Bezos to exploit--people in such a precarious position that have no choice but to take whatever underpaid, overworked job they can get.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If your concern is about fraud, and making sure the poorest receive funds, block grants are the opposite of what we should do. They allow states to redirect the money away from the neediest. OTOH, there is very persuasive evidence that SNAP really helps people. academic.oup.com/restud/artic...
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 Census and 2001–13 American Community Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's NUMIDENT, we leverage the county-level rollout of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975. We find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five have better outcomes as adults. The treatment-on-the-treated effects show a 6% of a standard deviation improvement in human capital, 3% of a standard deviation increase in economic self-sufficiency, 8% of a standard deviation increase in the quality of neighbourhood of residence, a 1.2-year increase in life expectancy, and a 0.5 percentage-point decrease in likelihood of being incarcerated. These estimates suggest that Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment in young children, yielding a marginal value of public funds of approximately sixty-two.
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This got a lot of interaction but it's weird that leading conservatives can admit that their coalition is fracturing over exactly how much racism they should support and not see this debate as disqualifying their entire project.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I do believe that universities will continue to give preferences to men because the administration wants that to happen and SFFA is unlikely to sue for this group of students. Always remember, it's not hypocrisy, it's power.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The essay deserves a failing grade. It doesn’t tie to the assigned reading or engage its claims or evidence in any serious or sustained fashion; it just repeats the students’ pre-existing beliefs, and does so poorly. Even personal experience requires showing real engagement & no sign of that here.
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OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after receiving a failing grade on an essay
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"What *is* sociology, exactly?" Sir I have no idea.
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TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 21/11/2025
ED is sticking close to an antiquated definition of professional programs that hasn't really mattered for decades for grad student loan access. A bit of good news: as my analysis of College Scorecard data shows, most nursing programs have average debt burdens below the new $100k limit.
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Next generation of nurses at risk with proposed student loan caps
As nursing shortages hit an all-time high, new proposed borrowing limits by the Education Department could make it harder to pay for school.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 21/11/2025
I was sufficiently annoyed with a piece claiming that inflation-adjusted college costs have doubled over the last 20 years that I wrote a response. There really haven't been increases over the last decade, but I fear that promising trend may be changing.
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College Prices Have Not Risen Dramatically in the Last Decade—But Will That Change?
Higher education is facing a crisis of confidence among the general public, and much of that is driven by concerns regarding affordability. For example, about 80 percent of Democrats and Republican…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Spending $2B for an unnecessary and wholly symbolic name change when the gov't says it can't afford to feed its people, provide heating support in winter, or help people pay for healthcare would be quite the statement.
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Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion
Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads,...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The DOGE cuts seemed to focus on tax teams that pursued enforcement of high income earners. The IRS had been building up enforcement on this area because most of the tax gap is driven by higher earners. Lax enforcement could cost hundreds of billions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Those interested in assessing the enforcement capacity of the IRS should determine how many staff are still working in enforcement, especially the Pass-Through Entities Practice Area, including the Global High Wealth unit and Pass-Through Examinations.
They should also ask about audits opened and closed this year, and the income distribution of those taxpayers being audited.
Another crucial question is the impact on revenue. A collapse in the IRS's capacity to audit higher-earners will certainly increase the $700 billion annual "tax gap" — the difference between tax money owed and tax money paid voluntarily and on time. Three fifths of that shortfall is due to underreporting of income by the top ten percent of earners; an additional dollar spent auditing these earners returns an estimated $12 in revenue. The damage to enforcement capacity this year is so unprecedented, it is hard to predict the cost.
But one model has suggested that, over a decade, it could reduce revenue by about two hundred billion dollars.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
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Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
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Arkādijs Zvaigzne @arkadijs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚀 I'm excited to announce I'm on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study the dynamic treatment effects of student financial aid. 🎓💸 I find that student financial aid can crowd-in future aid, and that this drives a large part of its long-term benefit.
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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This project was fueled by RAGE RAGE whenever I read or heard about (another) abuse of power by faculty RAGE whenever I was asked to discuss a paper about gender wage differentials that attributed gaps to "preferences" with no consideration of how "preferences" are formed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJY…
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 09/11/2025
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️
No.
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NBER @nber.org · 08/11/2025
Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
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