Michael Bastedo
Michael Bastedo has scholarly interests in the governance, politics, and organization of public higher education, with particular interests in stratification, college admissions, rankings, and low-income students.
He received the Early Career Award in 2013 from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the first higher education scholar in the award’s history. He was elected as an AERA Fellow in 2021. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, research director of the Institutes on Public University Governance, and a Ford Foundation Global Policy Fellow at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. His work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education. His most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Educational Statistics, has been reported by journalists at National Public Radio, *The New York Times, The Economist, The Times of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education*, and many others. He is affiliated with Organizational Studies and the International Institute in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Engineering Education Research in the College of Engineering. He holds a PhD in administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.
Recent publications
“Admitting Students in Context: Field Experiments on Information Dashboards in College Admissions.”
Bastedo, Michael N., D’Wayne Bell, Jessica S. Howell, Julian Hsu, Michael Hurwitz, Greg Perfetto, and Meredith Welch. 2022 (in press). Journal of Higher Education.
“What If We Leave It Up to Chance? Admissions Lotteries and Equitable Access at Selective Colleges.”
Baker, Dominique J., and Michael N. Bastedo. 2022. Educational Researcher 51(2): 134-145.
“Contextualizing the SAT: Experimental Evidence on College Admissions Recommendations for Low-SES Applicants.”
Bastedo, Michael N., Kristen M. Glasener, K.C. Deane, and Nicholas A. Bowman. 2022. Educational Policy 36: 282-311.
“A Study of the Use of Nonacademic Factors in Holistic Undergraduate Admissions Reviews.”
Hossler, Donald, Emily Chung, Jihye Kwon, Jerry Lucido, Jacob Docking, Nicholas A. Bowman, and Michael N. Bastedo. 2019. Journal of Higher Education 90: 833-859.
“What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Holistic Review? Selective College Admissions and Its Effects on Low-SES Students.”
Bastedo, Michael N., Nicholas A. Bowman, Kristen M. Glasener, and Jandi L. Kelly. 2018. Journal of Higher Education 89: 782-805.
“What Role May Admissions Office Diversity and Practices Play in Equitable Decisions?”
Bowman, Nicholas A. and Michael N. Bastedo. 2018. Research in Higher Education 59: 430-447.
“Improving Admission of Low-SES Students at Selective Colleges: Results from an Experimental Simulation.”
Bastedo, Michael N. and Nicholas A. Bowman. 2017. Educational Researcher 46(2): 67-77.
“Holistic Admissions after Affirmative Action: Does “Maximizing” the High School Curriculum Matter?”
Bastedo, Michael N., Joseph E. Howard, and Allyson Flaster. 2016. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 38: 389-409.