{"id":3921,"date":"2015-08-10T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:51:29","slug":"brookings-jonathan-rothwell-speaks-at-elizabethtown-college-aug-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2015\/08\/10\/brookings-jonathan-rothwell-speaks-at-elizabethtown-college-aug-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookings Institution’s Jonathan Rothwell speaks at Elizabethtown College Aug. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rothwell-NOW\"<\/a>Jonathan Rothwell, a fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institution and author of \u201cBeyond College Rankings,\u201d<\/a> a report on value-added education, visits Elizabethtown College Tuesday, Aug. 18, to speak to the campus community during the College\u2019s annual forum.
\nThe forum takes place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center with Rothwell\u2019s discussion of \u201cWhat Elizabethtown College does for its Students: A Value-Added Approach to Assessing Colleges\u201d beginning at 10:30 a.m. A 15 minute Q&A follows.
\n\u201cThis research project shows a new way to evaluate colleges, based on what they do for students, rather than how well they attract high-achieving students,\u201d said Rothwell about value-added rankings. \u201cSpecifically, we use three measures of alumni economic outcomes to gauge the extent to which colleges surpass or fall short of similar institutions. This presentation highlights the results for Elizabethtown College and puts them in context.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis research project shows a new way to evaluate colleges, based on what they do for students…”<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

College is one of the largest investments a person makes within his or her lifetime but unlike vehicles or homes, it is difficult to compare one institution against another. Rankings such as U.S. News, Forbes or Money focus on highly selective colleges even though they might not be the institutions that contribute the most to student success.
\nValue-added rankings measure not only employment and salaries but also graduation rate, market value of the skills learned.
\nRothwell earned a bachelor degree from Penn State, a master\u2019s degree in economics from the New School and a doctoral degree in public policy from Princeton University.
\nIn connection with Brookings, where Rothwell has worked since 2009, his research focuses on labor market economics, social mobility, access to education and the sources of economic growth. His Brookings publications have included reports on hard-to-fill job vacancies, the value of STEM knowledge, skill mismatch, the role of inventive activity on regional growth and the causes and consequences of school segregation.
\nThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., which conducts high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, provides innovative, practical recommendations that aim to strengthen American democracy, foster economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans, and secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
\nThe organization is consistently ranked as the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Rothwell, a fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institution and author of \u201cBeyond College Rankings,\u201d a report on value-added education, visits Elizabethtown College Tuesday, Aug. 18, to speak to the campus community during the College\u2019s annual forum. The forum takes place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,764],"tags":[979,144,197,981,980],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-research-and-academics","tag-brookings-institution","tag-e-a-harvey","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-jonathan-rothwell","tag-value-added-ranking","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}