Our partners at Vanderbilt have published three new papers related to TN-PEARL this year. The first, Building Community and Technical […]

TN-PEARL research will be highlighted this year at the 46th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance & Policy, […]

Celeste K. Carruthers (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Kara D. Smith (Belmont University) were recently honored with the prestigious Georgescu-Roegen Prize by the Southern Economic Association (SEA). Announcement occurred November 22, 2020, during the SEA 90th annual meeting held in New Orleans, La.

A new website has launched for the Tennessee Postsecondary Evaluation & Analysis Research Lab (TN-PEARL) that aims to make the lab’s research about higher education in Tennessee simple to access and easy to understand.

Drs. Bill Fox and Celeste Carruthers of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research are partnering with the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) to release a report, “Driving Forward: Ensuring Postsecondary Students Earn Credentials In A Changing Economy.”

Celeste Carruthers has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Economics of Education Review. She is the journal’s third editor-in-chief in its 39-year history and the first woman to serve in that role.

Eight Vanderbilt University faculty members are included in Education Week’s annual listing of influential public scholars in education – the Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Seven professors from Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development are on the 2020 list, as well as one from the College of Arts and Science.

The new Knox Promise initiative announced last week will provide additional financial and coaching support to help students succeed in college, and UT’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research will study the effects of the new pilot program.

The funding will help with research centered around Tennessee Promise, the state’s initiative to provide a tuition-free education at a community or technical college in Tennessee.

The partnership, made possible with a $400,000 grant, will establish the Tennessee Postsecondary Evaluation and Analysis Research Lab, or TN-PEARL.