Education Domestic Policy & Politics Economics Facet Area of Focus - News Craig Volden Gerald Warburg Allan Stam Brian N. Williams Ian H. Solomon Kirsten Gelsdorf David Leblang Jennifer Lawless Lucy Bassett Gabrielle Adams John Holbein Sarah Turner Sebastian Tello Trillo Sophie Trawalter Todd S. Sechser Daphna Bassok James R. Detert Jay Shimshack Philip Potter Bala Mulloth Benjamin Converse Christine Mahoney Christopher J. Ruhm Eileen Chou Harry Harding Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Margaret Foster Riley Michele Claibourn Raymond C. Scheppach Adam Leive Adam Roux Andrew S. Pennock Daniel W. Player Galen Fountain George Foresman Gerald Higginbotham Jeanine Braithwaite Jieun Pai Kimberly Jenkins Robinson Michael D. Williams William Shobe (-) Benjamin Castleman Facet People - News EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness School of Education and Human Development Facet UVA Partner - News Accolades (-) Research and Commentary Facet News Type - News January 31, 2023 First Gen Students Are Missing from the Nation’s Top Colleges. Here’s How Virtual Advising Could Help Batten School professor Ben Castleman spoke with USA Today about the benefits of virtual peer-to-peer advising for first-generation college students. Learn more Oct 17, 2022 Netflix Suggests Your Next Show. Should An Algorithm Suggest Your Next Class? Education Ben Castleman, associate professor of public policy and education at the Batten School, researches whether predictive analytics can be used to provide students and instructors with tailored recommendations about course and career pathways. Learn more Jan 26, 2022 Why aren’t more adults finishing community college? Education Batten School professor Ben Castleman and colleagues explore programs enacted by states to increase enrollment in community colleges. Despite these efforts, numbers have been steadily declining for much of the 2010s. Is there a way to get adults back to community college? Learn more Dec 01, 2021 How behavioral science could get people back into public libraries Education What keeps someone from activating their library card or returning a book? Brooklyn Public Library worked with behavioral science experts including Batten professor Benjamin Castleman and alum Katharine Meyer (MPP '16) to find out. Read in Fast Company Nov 3, 2021 Castleman: To Level the Playing Field in College Completion: Invest in Advising Education According to new research from Batten's Benjamin Castleman and Texas A&M University's Andrew Barr, intensive college advising leads to large increases in the share of low-income high school seniors that earn their bachelor's degree. Read in The Hill Dec 10, 2020 Castleman and Colleague Shed Light on Rewards of 'Credential Stacking' Education Economics The impact of “credential stacking” among community college students had long been of interest to Batten’s Ben Castleman and his colleague Katharine Meyer, but they became even more curious about it during the pandemic. READ IN UVA TODAY Oct 23, 2020 UVA Researchers Offer Data on One of Higher Education’s Most Dramatic Shifts Education In a new study, Batten’s Ben Castleman, along with his collaborators Gaby Lohner and Kelli Bird from the UVA School of Education and Human Development, investigated how the shift to online learning during COVID-19 has affected student success. Learn more Sep 21, 2015 Castleman Examines Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access in New Book Education Domestic Policy & Politics Each year, many students fail to enroll in college, enroll in institutions where they are not positioned for success or drop out before earning a degree. Learn more May 22, 2015 New Research Examines Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access Education Domestic Policy & Politics Each year, many students fail to enroll in college, enroll in institutions where they are not positioned for success or drop out before earning a degree. These students often have the academic skills needed and have access to affordable college options, but still face barriers to success. Learn more
January 31, 2023 First Gen Students Are Missing from the Nation’s Top Colleges. Here’s How Virtual Advising Could Help Batten School professor Ben Castleman spoke with USA Today about the benefits of virtual peer-to-peer advising for first-generation college students. Learn more
Oct 17, 2022 Netflix Suggests Your Next Show. Should An Algorithm Suggest Your Next Class? Education Ben Castleman, associate professor of public policy and education at the Batten School, researches whether predictive analytics can be used to provide students and instructors with tailored recommendations about course and career pathways. Learn more
Jan 26, 2022 Why aren’t more adults finishing community college? Education Batten School professor Ben Castleman and colleagues explore programs enacted by states to increase enrollment in community colleges. Despite these efforts, numbers have been steadily declining for much of the 2010s. Is there a way to get adults back to community college? Learn more
Dec 01, 2021 How behavioral science could get people back into public libraries Education What keeps someone from activating their library card or returning a book? Brooklyn Public Library worked with behavioral science experts including Batten professor Benjamin Castleman and alum Katharine Meyer (MPP '16) to find out. Read in Fast Company
Nov 3, 2021 Castleman: To Level the Playing Field in College Completion: Invest in Advising Education According to new research from Batten's Benjamin Castleman and Texas A&M University's Andrew Barr, intensive college advising leads to large increases in the share of low-income high school seniors that earn their bachelor's degree. Read in The Hill
Dec 10, 2020 Castleman and Colleague Shed Light on Rewards of 'Credential Stacking' Education Economics The impact of “credential stacking” among community college students had long been of interest to Batten’s Ben Castleman and his colleague Katharine Meyer, but they became even more curious about it during the pandemic. READ IN UVA TODAY
Oct 23, 2020 UVA Researchers Offer Data on One of Higher Education’s Most Dramatic Shifts Education In a new study, Batten’s Ben Castleman, along with his collaborators Gaby Lohner and Kelli Bird from the UVA School of Education and Human Development, investigated how the shift to online learning during COVID-19 has affected student success. Learn more
Sep 21, 2015 Castleman Examines Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access in New Book Education Domestic Policy & Politics Each year, many students fail to enroll in college, enroll in institutions where they are not positioned for success or drop out before earning a degree. Learn more
May 22, 2015 New Research Examines Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access Education Domestic Policy & Politics Each year, many students fail to enroll in college, enroll in institutions where they are not positioned for success or drop out before earning a degree. These students often have the academic skills needed and have access to affordable college options, but still face barriers to success. Learn more