Tim Carroll is a researcher with the Wake County Public School System, where he investigates post-graduation outcomes (including college enrollment, transfer, and degree completion) for students from the nation’s 15th largest school district. Tim is also a Ph.D. candidate in Higher Education at NYU, where his work focuses on quantitative analysis of pathways to and through college (particularly for students from immigrant and refugee families) as well as the intersections of higher education and immigration policy. His doctoral work was supported by an IES pre-doctoral fellowship from 2017-2021.

Tim has worked as a college access advisor with College Possible Minnesota, a need-based financial aid administrator at Williams College, and a data organizer at the Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR). He has a BA in American Studies from Carleton College and an MA in Higher Education from the University of Michigan.

He grew up in the rural Midwestern college town of Kirksville, Missouri, and currently lives with his partner, kids, and dog in Durham, North Carolina. He enjoys running, hiking, and poking around used bookstores.