Assistant Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab
Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology
(Curriculum Vitae)
Faculty Affiliate of WISCAPE, the UW Interdisciplinary Training Program for Predoctoral Research in Education Sciences, Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Faculty Associate, La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
210 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 262-6564
Voicemail:
(608) 263-4292
Email: srab@education.wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Sociology, 2004.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Higher Education (Access, Persistence, Complex Postsecondary Pathways), Educational Policy, Sociology of Education
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
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Consultant for the Social Science Research Council’s Transitions to College Project
Affiliated Primary Investigator, Consortium for Chicago School Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy Fellow (inducted 2006)
Current Research Projects:
“Investigating the Postsecondary Transitions of Urban Public School Students.”
Collaboration with the Consortium for Chicago School Research and the Chicago Public Schools.
“How Complex Postsecondary Educational Transitions Shape Student Success.” Funded by the Association for Institutional Research/National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Focused Grants on Student Success and the American Educational Research Association. With Sociology graduate student Fabian Pfeffer.
“Situating Swirling Students: Exploring the Role of Social Context in Postsecondary Pathways.” Funded by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good & UW Graduate School Research Committee. With EPS graduate student You Geon Lee.
“An Examination of the Aspirations, Expectations, and “Possible Selves” of Technical College Students.” Supported by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education. With graduate students Marjorie Cook (Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis), James Benson (Sociology), and Suzanne Sublette (EPS).
Current and Recent Grants and Awards:
Mellon Foundation. “Assessing Equity and Excellence in Public Higher Education: Evidence from a Large Flagship Public University.” Co-PI with Robert Haveman, John Witte, and Barbara Wolfe. (2006-2008).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2007).
National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, Rising Scholars Award (2004).
American Educational Research Association Grant (2005-2007).
Association for Institutional Research/National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Focused Grants on Student Success (2005-2006).
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School Research Committee Grant (2005-2007).
The Spencer Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship (2003-2004).
American Educational Research Association/ National Science Foundation/ National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Sciences, Dissertation Fellowship (2003-2004).
Recent and Representative Publications:
Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded Access to College for the Poor. With Kathleen Shaw (Temple University), Christopher Mazzeo (NY), Jerry Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania), and EPS graduate students Angelina Castagno, Suzanne Sublette, and May Wang. Book forthcoming from Russell Sage, Summer 2006.
Press Coverage has appeared in the November 28 edition of the Employment and Training Reporter.
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Sara Goldrick-Rab. 2005. "Connecting College Access with Success." Wisconsin School Boards Magazine. Click here for PDF version.
Sara Goldrick-Rab. January 2006. “Following Their Every Move: How Social Class Shapes Postsecondary Pathways.” Sociology of Education. Link found on Ingenta.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Deborah Faye Carter, and Rachelle Winkle Wagner. Forthcoming. “What Higher Education Literature Has to Say About the Transition to College.” Teachers College Record 2007 (and online edition in Fall 2006). Click here for abstract.
Kathleen Shaw and Sara Goldrick-Rab. Spring 2006. “The Effect of Work-First Federal Policies on Access to Community Colleges for Latinos.” New Directions in Community Colleges, volume on Latino Educational Opportunity, Spring 2006.
Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kathleen Shaw. December 2005. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Impact of Work-First Reforms on Access to Postsecondary Education.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Click here for PDF version.
Sara Goldrick-Rab and Christopher Mazzeo. Winter 2005. “What ‘No Child Left Behind’ Means for College Access.” Review of Research in Education. Click here for PDF version.
Working Papers:
Goldrick-Rab, Sara. “Social Background and Heterogeneity in College
Pathways: New Evidence and New Questions.”
Goldrick-Rab, Sara and Fabian Pfeffer. “Stratified Second Chances:
Student Mobility and Institutional Differentiation.”
Goldrick-Rab, Sara and Seong Won Han. “The “Class Gap” in the “Gap
Year”: Academic Coursetaking, Family Formation and Socioeconomic
Differences in Delaying the Transition to College.”
Goldrick-Rab, Sara and Justin Ronca. “How School Context Affects the
Success of First-Generation College Students.”
Goldrick-Rab, Sara and Josipa Roska. “Contemporary Growth and Inequality
in the Community College Sector.”
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Debates in Higher Education Policy
Community Colleges: Issues and Research
Sociology of Education
Women in Higher Education
