Marcella Bombardieri

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps 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...

🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot. Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

A community college in Long Beach, California, reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students.

For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline. Without the school lot, he said, he would have dropped out.

ED Reallocates MSI Funding to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges Some HBCU advocates say their colleges are more deserving of the money than other minority-serving institutions. Others have more mixed feelings.

Didn't make the article but key point is, what if I told you that there was legislation in the 1800s that gave millions of dollars to HBCUs? Then what if I said it was being done to ensure that other insts never had to integrate?

Now you can see what this is

www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

Honored to join such an inspiring group of writers and filmmakers and to connect with the incredible policy minds at @newamerica.org as a #NewAmericaFellow.

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

This is the most important thing to read on Trump's higher ed war. It's not "Harvard vs. trade schools." It's the same ecosystem and all parts are essential. Research breakthroughs need skilled labor to manufacture/fix them. Jobs & communities are at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.

This is censorship and cowardice.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 Hot off the press from me, @sarapartridge.bsky.social, and Madison Weiss at CAP 👇🏼

💡New federal borrowing limits put graduate programs for social workers, nurses, and teachers at risk. These fields serve communities but usually offer lower pay. Our report explains how these changes could limit access without smarter, targeted support. buff.ly/FpGgpew

American Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.

"We don’t make enough money to put up with this."

Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states.

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My column today for The Hill clarifies that fired Education Department workers are not complicit in the government’s wasteful spending. We want to get back to work for America’s schools, students, and teachers. #academicsky #HigherEd thehill.com/opinion/educ...

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students.

My latest for ProPublica:

How a Republican Lawsuit Targeting Trans Kids Could Undo Major Disability Protections Texas v. Becerra is a fight for the future of civil rights in America.

This important new piece from @stephmhall.bsky.social shows how essential protections for students with disabilities and other civil rights are at risk in an ongoing legal battle in Texas.

Read about the implications of Texas v. Becerra here ⬇️

www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-...

Yesterday's remarkable NYT piece by Larry Summers backs up my argument for wealthy universities to backstop Trump's cuts with their endowments. You can read it here.
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As usual, anytime I look around for truly inspired, mission-driven leaders of innovative, hope-making institutions, it’s always community colleges and regionals.

The biggies are simply too beholden to the box they’ve built around themselves.

What Will Happen to Your Student Loans if Trump Closes the Department of Education? Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk.

For @teenvogue.com today, I wrote about the impact of closing the Dept of Education. Long story short: students of all ages will face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them, and that is the point.

www.teenvogue.com/story/what-w...