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Speaker(s): Prof. Mitchell Stevens (Graduate School of Education-°®åú´«Ã½)

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The way undergrads choose courses is complicated, yet educators and students have always relied on anecdotal information about the factors that influence these decisions. °®åú´«Ã½'s is one of the main research centers that studies this process.Ìý

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The Humanities Education Focal Group invites you to join us for lunch and interdisciplinaryÌýconversation as Prof. Mitchell Stevens of the Graduate School of Education atÌý°®åú´«Ã½ shares an overview of Carta's work since 2016.

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Please RSVP if you plan on attending, and we look forward to seeing you in Room 252, Pigott Hall, at 12.30pm next Thursday.

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Mitchell L. Stevens (mitchell.stevens [at] stanford.edu (mitchell[dot]stevens[at]stanford[dot]edu)) is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Organizational Behavior and Sociology at °®åú´«Ã½. He studies the organization of US higher education, the quantification of academic performance, and alternative school forms. The author of prize-winning studies of home education and selective college admissions, he currently is writing a book about how US research universities organize research and teaching about the rest of the world. He serves as the third Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research, a cooperative institution that has brought more than 500 scholars to °®åú´«Ã½ over a quarter century and catalyzes organizational scholarship worldwide.

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