Conversations at the PDC

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Sara Goldrick-Rab is coauthor of Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability and has written on education issues for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. She is currently professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is founding director of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation’s first laboratory aimed at improving equitable outcomes in post-secondary education. On July 1 Goldrick-Rab will join Temple University in Philadelphia as Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently named her Twitter account (@saragoldrickrab) the most indispensable one to follow. You can learn more at www.saragoldrickrab.com.

“Goldrick-Rab’s important book should be read by policymakers, students, and parents. She explains clearly how access to college has been narrowed by rising costs, how elected officials have dodged their responsibility to maintain access, and what we must do to save the American Dream—the promise that all have equal opportunity to succeed.”  —Diane Ravitch

The lecture will be followed by a book signing. Copies of her book are currently available for purchase at the campus bookstore. Copies are also on reserve and available for check out at Reed Library.

This program is being offered a part of the Provost's "Conversations About the Future of the College" discussion series, which is now in its third year. This semester, students, faculty and staff have joined in reading Sara Goldrick-Rab's timely book,  Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream.