At PNPI, we have long been focused on building the federal policymaker bench and over the coming year, we will continue to expand those efforts as we resume our federal postsecondary researcher spotlights.

Over the last two years, we introduced the contributions of newer researchers to the larger PNPI network via a series of social media events. During each event we asked our featured researcher to share the topline findings of a study or analysis they have recently completed, followed by a Q&A period with our audience. 

Is there someone you would like to nominate for our spring showcase series? Could this person be you?

Who are we looking for? It could be an emerging analyst at a think tank who has recently completed a noteworthy research project or paper, a graduate student who is leading or co-leading a project at a campus-based center, or a researcher/professor who is relatively new to the federal higher education space. If the person is working alongside an established name in the space they will need to have done enough of the analysis to be featured as a primary researcher on the work that is shared.

We are particularly interested in quantitative work focused on federal student aid, student loan debt, enrollment, graduation, or persistence. We are not limiting ourselves to these areas but they tend to be the areas where we focus most of our work.

Fill out this form to nominate yourself or someone else.