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		<title>ASHE presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to attach a copy of the presentation I will be giving at the upcoming Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) conference in Vancouver this November.  Here is a copy of the paper  and below is an abstract of the piece.  
&#8220;Meeting need and buying prestige: an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=328&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merit aid&#8217;s bait and switch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penn State University is asking its honors college students to return, I mean &#8220;donate,&#8221; their $3,500 merit-based grants back to the university.  The university is only asking those students who have no unmet financial need to donate and so far the appeal has brought more than a quarter of a million dollars back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=318&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merit-aid crowds out need-based aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just after writing my previous post last night, I opened my email to find this article about a new study released by Cornell University&#8217;s Higher Education Research Institute.  It goes right along with part of the discussion about how colleges spend money on student subsidies.  Turns out, the more a college spends on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=315&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EAIR presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here (pdf) is a copy of my paper that I&#8217;ll be presenting at the European Association for Institutional Research&#8217;s annual conference.  The title of this paper is &#8220;The ethical dimensions of tuition discounting: context from the U.S.&#8221;  In a nutshell, I set up two competing theoretical frameworks to help researchers understand the ethical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=310&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation prospectus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve attached a copy of my dissertation prospectus, which is a general overview of my dissertation proposal.  It&#8217;s just a quick two-page overview of my dissertation topic.  I haven&#8217;t spent much time on this blog describing what my research questions are, data sources, methods, or policy relevance of my study.  
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		<title>Europe bound&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of August, Ashley and I are going to travel to Lithuania where I&#8217;m going to present some of my dissertation research at an academic conference.
The conference is sponsored by the European Association of Institutional Research, where professors, researchers, and policy analysts from all over Europe get together to discuss higher ed issues. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=286&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation presentation</title>
		<link>http://nhillman.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dissertation-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is in all its glory.  Still working through some kinks and figuring out exactly what methods I will be using.  BUT, with any luck my final dissertation will look a little something like this presentation.  I&#8217;m presenting this in class tomorrow, so hopefully I&#8217;ll get some good feedback from my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=248&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homebrew</title>
		<link>http://nhillman.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/homebrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals for 2009 was to make some homebrew.  So, on January 1st I started my first batch of beer from scratch.  Eventually I&#8217;ll put up a post (with a video!) of the entire process start to finish&#8230;but that won&#8217;t happen for a while.  My first bottles are almost ready, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=244&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R Project</title>
		<link>http://nhillman.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/r-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to figure out what kind of statistical method I will use for my dissertation.  I&#8217;ve got it narrowed down to two options: panel analysis or hierarchical linear modeling.  I&#8217;m leaning towards HLM, and will eventually put up a post that explains some of this in more detail.  But, I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nhillman.wordpress.com&blog=1821694&post=235&subd=nhillman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Default movie trailer</title>
		<link>http://nhillman.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/default-movie-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;d like to see a Michael Moore style documentery showing the political shenanigans going on behind the scene with the banking industry and politician&#8217;s pocketbooks, this film should still be a good contribution to raising awareness about the corrupt system that we currently have.

DEFAULT &#8211; The Student Loan Documentary from Default on Vimeo.
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