Brian Jacob, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Sophia Chong, Hersheena Rajaram
AdviseMI advisers help students to apply for college by providing assistance with college searches, applications and essay writing, and applying for financial...
Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan requested data access and completed the analysis included in this report. The data are structured and maintained by the MERI-Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC). MEDC data is modified for analysis...
Stacey Brockman, Sophia Chong, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Robin Tepper Jacob
This policy brief reports findings from research partnerships between the Youth Policy Lab, the Detroit Regional Chamber, the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD), the Detroit College Action Network (DCAN), and MDRC. We describe the...
In 2019, the University of Michigan’s Youth Policy Lab placed a Data & Policy Fellow with the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) to provide LEO leadership with technical assistance and strategic support in improving its state-run...
While some overarching barriers to college access and success—including cost and academic preparation—are well documented in literature, the challenges individual students face are more nuanced. This policy brief uses data collected from the MyVoice...
Postsecondary education is widely seen as a necessity in the modern economy, yet among low- and middle-income families, college enrollment rates are dismayingly low — and graduation rates are even lower. College Promise programs, which cover local...
