Conference
Affordability and College Attainment in Wisconsin Public Higher Education
A Research, Policy, and Practice Conference
Hosted by:
Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study,
Sara Goldrick-Rab and Douglas N. Harris, Co-Directors
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Sponsored by
UW System Administration, Wisconsin Technical College System, WISCAPE, and Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation
July 7-8, 2011
159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
News and Press
- Press Release: New Experimental Study Suggests Financial Aid Enhances College Success Among the Most Unlikely Graduates
- Students Least Likely to Persist Benefit Most From Extra Financial Aid, Study Finds, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2011
- Study: Financial aid most helpful to students unlikely to succeed without it, madison.com, July 2011
- Study: Giving Aid to At-Risk College Students a Better Bet, Education Week, July 2011
- A Nudge for the Neediest, Inside Higher Ed, July 2011
- Should Pell Grants Be Better Targeted? The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2011
- Pell Grants Only Effective in Some Cases, Policy Shop, July 2011
- Financial aid helps neediest students, Community College Spotlight, July 2011
Conference Videos and Powerpoints
July 7, 2011: Affordability and College Attainment in Wisconsin Public Higher Education
Video Powerpoints: Goldrick-Rab, Smeeding, Haveman, Kelchen, Witte
July 8, 2011: Affordability and College Attainment in Wisconsin Public Higher Education
Video Part 1 Powerpoints: Goldrick-Rab, Harris, Benson
Video Part 2 Powerpoints: Broton, Figueiredo-Brown, Adserias
Video Part 3 Powerpoints: Richard Kahlenberg
Video Part 4
Additonal Conference PowerPoints
Kelchen, Luedke, Minikel-Lacocque, Renteria, Kinsley, Byrd
Program
Conference Photos
Keynote Speaker
Our keynote speaker is RICHARD KAHLENBERG, senior fellow at The Century Foundation. Kahlenberg is an authority on inequality in higher education and has authored or edited numerous books including Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (2010); Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (2010); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); America’s Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education (2004); and A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility (2000).
Kahlenberg's articles have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and NPR. Previously, Kahlenberg was a Fellow at the Center for National Policy, a visiting associate professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, and a legislative assistant to Senator Charles S. Robb (D-VA). He is also a nonresident senior fellow at Education Sector. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1985 and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989. Between college and law school, he spent a year at the University of Nairobi School of Journalism as a Rotary Scholar. He lives with his wife, Rebecca, and four daughters outside Washington, D.C.
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