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Stephen L. DesJardins

Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor Emeritus, Marsal Family School of Education

Location

Mailbox 2108/2117
610 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1259

Stephen L. DesJardins is happily retired from his faculty position in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education where he served for 22 years. However, Steve continues to work on funded research projects in the United States studying the effects of a state-based scholarship program and he is part of an evaluation team studying the effects of Michigan's GEAR UP program and a teacher training program in New Mexico. He is also engaged in funded projects internationally, including an evaluation of the effects of charging tuition to international students in Finland, how a recent change in student aid policy affects student outcomes in Norway, and a study of grade inflation in high schools in Portugal.

DesJardins received a BS in economics from Northern Michigan University, an MA in policy analysis and labor economics from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and a PhD in higher education with a concentration in research and evaluation methods, also from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining academia, he worked in market research in the private sector and was a policy analyst and institutional researcher for 13 years at the University of Minnesota.
 

Selected Publications

"Ensuring professional higher education meets the needs of students and society."

DesJardins, S., & Hovdhaugen, E. (2023). Tertiary Education and Management, 29(1), 1-4.

Ra, E., Kim, J, Hong, J. & DesJardins, S. L. (2023). Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 45(1), 79-107. 

Furquim, F, Deane, K.C., McCall, B. P. & DesJardins, S. L. (2022). AERA Open

Cummings, K. M., Deane, KC, McCall, B. P. & DesJardins, S. L. (2022). The Journal of Higher Education, 93(6), 873-900. 

Burkhardt, J. C., DesJardins, S. L., & Gruppen, L. (2021). PLOS ONE

de Gayardon, A., Callender, C., & DesJardins, S. L. (2021). Journal of Social Policy, 1-21.

Burkhardt, J. C., DesJardins, S. L., & Gruppen, L. (2020). Annals of Emergency Medicine, 76(1), 113-115. 

"Student loan debt: Longer term implications for graduates in the United States and England."

Callender, C., Deane, K. C., de Gayardon, A, & DesJardins, S. L. (2020). In Changing Higher Education for a Changing World. Claire Callender, William Locke, & Simon Marginson (Eds). London: Bloomsbury.

Burkhardt, J. C., DesJardins, S. L., & Gruppen, L. (2019). Annals of Emergency Medicine, 74(6), 742-750.

DesJardins, S. L., Hossler, D., Toutkoushian, R. T., & Chen, J. (2019). Review of Higher Education, 43(1), pp. 263-294. 

"Categorical and limited dependent variable modeling in higher education."

Rodriguez, A., Furquim, F., & DesJardins, S. L. (2018). In Michael Paulsen (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research XXXIV: 295-370. 

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