Keynote Speaker - Sarah Goldrick-Rab

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Higher Education Policy & Sociology at Temple University, and Founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation’s only action research laboratory seeking ways to make college more affordable. She is best known for her innovative research on food and housing insecurity in higher education, having led the three largest national studies on the subject, and for her work on making public higher education free. She is the recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Award and the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award, and in 2016 POLITICO magazine named her one of the top 50 people shaping American politics. Her latest book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream(University of Chicago, 2016), is an Amazon best-seller and a 2018 winner of the Grawemeyer Award, and has been featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls her “a defender of impoverished students and a scholar of their struggles,” she is ranked 7thin the nation among education scholars according to Education Week, and in April 2018 the Carnegie Corporation awarded her the Carnegie Fellowship.

Video                                                                                   

• The Daily Show: Paying the Price interview
• SXSWedu 2017 keynote: highlights curated by Chronicle of Higher Ed
• SXSWedu 2017 keynote on Price of College
• ASU GSV Summit: Paying the Price
• PBS News Hour on student debt
• University of Mary Washington keynote
• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board keynote
• CSPAN’s “After Words” on Paying the Price
• SUNYCON “Higher Education Should be Universal & Free”
• Oklahoma University Talk
• Temple University Paying the Price Talk
• Portland Community College Paying the Price Talk
• Dr. Goldrick-Rab Talks about Paying the Price: College Costs and the Betrayal of the American Dream
• Wisconsin News 3 Paying the Price interview
• Student Success Talk with Mark Cuban at Copley Retention Systems
• College Affordability Talk at Albert Shanker Institute
• Century Foundation Debate: “Public College Should be Free”