Mitchell Stevens

Mitchell Stevens is professor of education at Stanford, where he convenes the Pathways Network. He studies the history, finance, and politics of postsecondary education in the United States and worldwide. The author of award-winning studies of home education and selective admissions, his most recent books are Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2018). As co-director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, he leads a project on futures of education and learning for longer lives. He has written scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals and editorial for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other venues. Stevens is a faculty fellow at CASBS.