Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford, where he serves as Faculty Chair of the Education Enterprise initiative. An expert on the organization and politics of academic evaluation, he is the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. With Stanford’s Mike Kirst, he developed a robust research program on the organizational ecology of higher education in the US, represented in such publications as Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education, & “Research Universities and the Future of Work.” He oversaw development of a first-in-the world protocol for the free and open sharing of learner data produced in digitally mediated instructional environments. He also assembled serial international convenings regarding the ethical use of educational data through the project “Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education.” He is Co-Director of the Carta Lab, which develops a systematic science of academic consideration & choice.