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John Diamond
Director
Knowledge Management and Institutional Learning

Diamond is the director of the Knowledge Management and Institutional Learning department and the chair of the Data Integrity Board, Data Management Initiative, and Data Security Team. He also coordinates data sharing and transparency work with external repositories like the ICPSR at the University of Michigan. Through these roles, Diamond is responsible for the timely, accurate, and efficient flow of information throughout the organization, as well as the capture of new information in support of organizational strategic initiatives. Diamond also serves as a senior research associate in the Postsecondary Education policy area. He is the project director of MDRC’s evaluation of the Texas Transfer Grants program, which offers $5,000 grants to community college students who are academically high-achieving, come from low-income backgrounds, and plan to enroll at Texas public four-year institutions. His other work includes The Higher Education RCT (THE-RCT) Restricted Access File, a project that created a secure meta-analytic database with deidentified data from 30 randomized controlled trials, 50 colleges, and more than 65,000 students; evaluations of developmental math education reforms such as the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways; and a national survey of higher education institutions’ developmental education policies fielded through the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness. Before joining MDRC in 2012, he was a consultant in securities class-action litigation. Diamond graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and biochemistry from Swarthmore College.

Products

Brief

Impacts of the Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program on Community College Student Transfer

Brief

Interim Impacts of the Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program on Student Transfer

Report

A Study of a Transition Program Serving Students with Low Math Skills at a Community College

Brief

New Approaches to Serving the Lowest-Skilled Students at Community Colleges in Texas and Beyond

Brief

Early Findings from a Study of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways

Report

Interim Findings from an Evaluation of a Computer-Assisted, Modular Approach to Developmental Math

Brief

Early Lessons from Completion by Design

Testimony

Testimony Submitted to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance

Report

Early Findings from the New Mathways Project

Report

Performance-Based Scholarships, Student Services, and Developmental Math at Hillsborough Community College

Report

Student Characteristics and Patterns of (Un)Affordability