Professor Stephen DesJardins
Stephen L. DesJardins is a Co-Investigator on CGHE Project 5, ‘Student loan debt and graduate decision-making’.
Stephen is Professor, School of Education and Professor, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research interests include student transitions from high school to college, what happens to students once they enrol in college, the economics of postsecondary education, and applying new statistical techniques to the study of these issues. He was selected as a 2017 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow for his contribution to education research.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Select recent publications
- A Nationally Representative Sample of Veteran and Matched Non-Veteran College Students: Mental Health Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health Treatment
Journal of American College Health. (Upcoming) - Time May Change Me: Examining How Aspirations for College Evolve During High School
Review of Higher Education, 2019 - Categorical and Limited Dependent Variable Modeling in Higher Education. In Michael Paulsen (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Springer, 2018 - Navigating the Financial Aid Process: Borrowing Outcomes among First- Generation and Non-First-Generation Students
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2017