Michael Bastedo

Michael Bastedo is the Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs in the Marsal Family School of Education.  He is the founding director of the Michigan Admissions Collaboratory, a practice-to-research center designed to facilitate and promote college admissions research both in the U.S. and internationally.  His scholarly interests are in higher education decision making, particularly college admissions, inequality, stratification, enrollment management, rankings, and governance.  In 2013, he received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and in 2021, he was named an AERA Fellow.  In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Education.  Professor Bastedo has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, and a visiting scholar at the Bellagio Center, Stanford, and Sciences Po. His recent books are Rethinking College Admissions (Harvard Education Press), Holistic Admissions as a Global Phenomenon (Routledge), American Higher Education in the 21^st Century and The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era (both Johns Hopkins University Press).  His most recent research, funded by The National Science Foundation and The National Center for Educational Statistics, has been reported by journalists at National Public Radio, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.