Sara Goldrick-Rab

She is the author, most recently, of Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream (University of Chicago, 2016), an Amazon best-seller that has been featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, the New York Review of Books, and CSPAN’s Book TV, among other venues.

Dr. Goldrick-Rab considers herself a scholar-activist whose work aims to reduce socioeconomic and racial inequalities in general and to ameliorate inequities in college attainment in particular. Her commitment to scholar-activism is evidenced by her broad profile of research and writing dissecting the intended and unintended consequences of the college-for-all movement in the United States. In more than a dozen experimental, longitudinal, and mixed-methods studies, she has examined the efficacy and distributional implications of financial aid policies, welfare reform, transfer practices, and a range of interventions aimed at increasing college attainment among marginalized populations. She provides extensive service to local, state, and national communities, working directly with governors and state legislators to craft policies to make college more affordable, collaborating with non-profit organizations seeking to examine the effects of their practices, and providing technical assistance to Congressional staff, think tanks, and membership organizations throughout Washington, DC.

Many professional organizations and foundations have honored Dr. Goldrick-Rab for her work. In 2013, she was invited to testify before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Senators Tom Harkin and Lamar Alexander. In 2014, she received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association, and in 2015 she graduated from the William T. Grant Foundation’s five-year-long Faculty Scholars program. In 2016, POLITICO Magazine named her one of the top 50 people shaping American politics.

In addition to Paying the Price, Dr. Goldrick-Rab is the co-author also of Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor. She is widely published in venues such as Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Sociology of Education, Review of Educational Research, and Teachers College Record, and she co-edited a Harvard Education Press volume, Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability.

After beginning her studies at the College of William & Mary, Sara Goldrick-Rab earned her B.A. from George Washington University and her M.A and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sponsored by the Office of the President and the Honors Program.

Sources:
http://saragoldrickrab.com/
http://saragoldrickrab.com/books/#payingtheprice
http://education.temple.edu/faculty/sara-goldrick-rab

Published on September 07, 2017