Research
Scholarly Accomplishments April 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Awards Anthony Abraham Jack For Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the PriceProse Book Award for Education Theory and Practice2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Finalist for Education by Foreword Reviews Books Mary Churchill Churchill, M. L. […]
Making Student Loan Programs Fair
According to the Education Data Initiative, there are around 42.7 million students who have federal loan debt, which totals approximately $1.7 trillion. To understand some of the complex issues facing these students, BU Wheelock’s Jerry Whitmore, Jr., is studying debt forgiveness programs and state initiatives that people may not be aware about. His study is […]
Empowering Students to Plan for Their Futures
Educators play an important role in setting students up for future success—among other things, they foster social emotional skills, help with career exploration, and support executive functioning. And these are just some of the ways they support academic growth, self-awareness, and identity formation, all in service of connecting students to a brighter future. For this […]
Using Policy Research to Achieve Educational Equity
Before getting his PhD, William Delgado worked as an economic consultant to the Inter-American Bank, the Colombian Health Department, and other organizations. Today, he’s a research assistant professor at BU Wheelock and an affiliated faculty member with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center who uses data-driven strategies and tools from economics and policy analysis to find […]