Steven Alvarado

3743990008317484 - Associate Director|ND Pop Make a difference at Notre Dame! Contribute to groundbreaking research, shape young minds, and create a supportive campus. Your work matters.

Notre Dame Population Analytics (ND Pop) is hiring an Associate Director! Start date of September 2025! Be part of a rapidly growing and highly resourced pop center!

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But watch their executive bonuses break records this year.

It wasn’t me.

So the official language on our contract says that we cannot release results that have not been cleared by IES review. However, what’s the legal constraint if one party ceases to exist!?

Currently checking ND’s contract with NCES

**JOB ALERT** Notre Dame's new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. $75k/year, $15k research expenses, open area, & up to 2 years. Come work with great Sociology colleagues in a resource rich environment.

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Educators Sue to Challenge Trump Administration's Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws, Attack Educational Programs and Student Opportunities - Democracy Forward

The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Sos boricua?!

Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

Hundreds of asylum seekers were deported from the U.S. to Panama and locked in a hotel without access to lawyers, or their own passports.

I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for graduate training fellowships from NSF and IES. My work depends on federal restricted data. This is absolutely devastating for future generations of researchers. I’m glad @agamoran.bsky.social is using his immense influence to fight back.

Trump administration threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL

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We continue to monitor and act on developments relating to federal data accessibility, collection, & reporting. Our partners at ICPSR have an archive tool for crowdsourcing government data. We encourage AERA members to utilize it. Learn more: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

This is a critical task for the sake of knowledge production. My research team will start to get the entire HSLS uploaded to ICPSR.

I’ll try to see if Notre Dame sociology or our new pop center can make a monetary donation. I’ll also see if my team can start getting the NLSY 79, CYA, and 97 data uploaded.

I was just thinking that ICPSR should be the nation’s data repository earlier today. Thank you @icpsr.bsky.social on behalf of all us researchers who depend on quality federal data.

This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.

This tracks newrepublic.com/article/1908...

It is more important than ever to heed Mills’s call and focus our sociological gaze on elites.

Remembering Michael Burawoy | KPFA The prominent sociologist, writer, and U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy passed away on February 3. We present excerpts from three interviews with Burawoy, about marketization and commo...

Burawoy on marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023). #sociology

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In my Race & Film class, I teach about Disney’s infamously racist and long-cancelled “Song of the South” - perhaps making a comeback from exile to Disney+ soon.

After a few months of using the online ADRF platform, I was dissatisfied and decided to migrate all my NCES restricted data work back to the cold room in November ‘24. Most universities should have cold rooms by now. We’re currently modernizing ours at CREO at Notre Dame.

Fed Research Blog

U Mich doing a great job informing community about developments in research funding

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Another titan of the field has fallen. As a sociologist of inequality, education, & neighborhoods, I am deeply indebted to Jencks. I met him once at a breakfast at Ruth Lopez Turley’s house in grad school at Wisconsin. What an amazing scholar and human being.

FYI. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Latino men and Black women have steadily had highest labor force participation in recent decades.

Interesting. What do you think would happen if you add race/ethnicity?

How likely is it that any of these ridiculously flawed EOs are gonna stick!?

It was huge honor - and somewhat surreal - to give a demography seminar in the very room where @agamoran.bsky.social hooded me with my PhD and where I saw Heckman give a talk once in grad school.

Again, another day has gone by & the presidents of major research universities are deafeningly silent in the face of existential threats because of the potential end of federal funding. It's like watching the failure to stand up to Scott Walker & the Wisconsin GOP for a decade, on a national scale.

I'm heading back to Madison to give a seminar on a paper made possible by access to decades of restricted federal data that is increasingly under threat. Let's keep @dol.gov, Census, and @usedgov.bsky.social data accessible to researchers and the public alike!

Absolutely stunning and tragic