Teaching
Lead Instructor, Harvard Gradaute School of Education (Graduate Students)
HGSE A217A: Economics of Higher Education: Access, Outcomes, and Competition (Spring 2023) Course Creator and Lead Instructor with Alexis Gable
Description: The purpose of this course is to teach important frameworks from economics and other social sciences to aid in our understanding of higher education trends and challenges. Many of the challenges facing higher education in the United States originate from scarce resources. These include limited individual and family resources to pay increasing tuition, accessible information on enrollment and quality, and institutional competition for public funding. This scarcity creates a higher education landscape where access is limited, and individuals and institutions compete for resources for their own desired outcomes. Economic theory and research offers perspectives on how individuals and institutions can make optimal decisions under scarcity. This course will utilize frameworks and theories from economics to better understand the costs, benefits, and incentives institutions and students face. Utilizing economic frameworks such as human capital and signaling theory, opportunity costs, optimization under resource constraints, and information asymmetry, we will understand historical and current higher education issues related to access, finance, quality, and accountability, and interrogate where change might be possible. This course focuses on American institutions and explores how these topics vary across institution types – from local community colleges to national research universities. We will also include international examples where possible. Students will also learn the basic principles of research while discussing and critiquing recent studies and reports.
Teaching Fellow (Graduate Students)
HGSE S052: Intermediate & Advanced Statistical Methods for Applied Education Research; Teaching Fellow for Andrew Ho, Spring 2021
EVI 101: Evidence; Teaching Fellow for Carrie Conaway, Summer 2021
HGSE S040: Introductory & Intermediary Statistics for Educational Research; Teaching Fellow for Joe McIntyre, Fall 2020
HGSE A701: Creating the Future of American Postsecondary Education; Teaching Fellow for Francesca Purcell, Fall 2020 & Fall 2021
A718: Redesigning Colleges & Universities for Equitable Student Success – Teaching Fellow for Francesca Purcell, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, & Spring 2021