Emileigh Harrison JMP: "Impact of Free Community College: Evidence from Chicago" Website: emileighharrison.github.io/index.html

A new study found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college. edsurge.com/news/2024-10-2… Riley Acton @edsurge

More great coverage of our working paper on college proximity! 😎 Kalena Cortes Camila Morales Lois Miller Thanks, Inside Higher Ed & Johanna Alonso!

I'm so lucky to work with this dream team of co-authors 🤩 thank you to Inside Higher Ed and Johanna Alonso for covering our work!

Thanks also to EdSurge & Jeff Young for this article last week covering my paper with Riley Acton Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales 😊 Paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1055

6 days, 3 conferences, 4 presentations, 3 discussant pres, and a poster later, I am done conferencing 😅 wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing that much in one go but I loved connecting with so many of you at ED, #APPAM2024, and #SEA2024! Now time for some rest 😴

First time talking to a reporter about my research ✅ Thanks so much to Lexi Lonas Cochran for the coverage, and to my coauthor Riley Acton for passing this one off to me to talk about our work with Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales 😊 thehill.com/homenews/educa…

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1⃣9⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Living in a "community college desert" hinders enrollment and degree completion, especially for low-income and underrepresented minority students. Study by Riley Acton Kalena Cortes Lois Miller Camila Morales newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…