Unfortunately, our Fall 2024 Sussman Lecture: Students Are Humans First with Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for the inconvenience. We plan to reschedule this event for the Spring and hope to see you there. Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns!
Event Information
Date:
October 23, 2024
Time:
7:00–8:00 p.m. CT
Location:
Tom and Ruth Harkin Center (2800 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50311)
Virtual Live Stream (Link will be sent to virtual attendees before the event)
Cost:
Free
Accommodations: American Sign Language (ASL) and live captioning (CART) will be provided for in-person and virtual attendees. Any additional accommodation requests can be made by emailing harkininstitute@drake.edu.
Parking: In-person attendees will be able to park in Drake University parking lot 24, next to the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center, but they will need a free visitor parking pass to do so. In-person attendees will be sent a link to register for a parking pass closer to the day of the event.
Event Summary
The Harkin Institute is thrilled to announce this Fall’s Sussman Lecture, “Students Are Humans First” with Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab. Dr. Goldrick-Rab will discuss the challenges students face in meeting their basic needs while earning a college education. She explored this topic in her award-winning book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream. The book documents the failures of policymakers and higher education institutions to make college affordable. Her scientific studies identifying and addressing college students’ basic needs for food, housing, childcare, transportation, and health supports sparked the internationally-known #RealCollege movement and inspired federal and state data collection and legislation, as well as countless privately-funded programs.
About Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab
Sara Goldrick-Rab is a scholar-activist whose pathbreaking research, teaching, and advocacy has changed how higher education understands and supports college students. A sociologist, she focuses on reducing poverty by revealing unheard truths and sharing that knowledge with multiple publics. Goldrick-Rab’s award-winning book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, documents the failures of policymakers and higher education institutions to make college affordable. Her scientific studies identifying and addressing college students’ basic needs for food, housing, childcare, transportation, and health supports sparked the internationally-known #RealCollege movement and inspired federal and state data collection and legislation, as well as countless privately-funded programs.
Goldrick-Rab has founded, led, and supported the growth of multiple organizations transforming higher education. In 2013 she founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, and for almost a decade oversaw its growth into The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, a 50-person national university center with an annual budget of more than $8M. In 2016 she founded Believe in Students, a national nonprofit that distributed more than $2M in emergency aid to students during the pandemic and empowers faculty to become powerful educators that recognize their students are humans first. In 2019 she translated her research findings into a product that makes it possible for low-income people to access emergency support quickly and with dignity; that work is now advanced by Beam, a Brooklyn-based company.
The recipient of many awards, Goldrick-Rab has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and won the $100,000 Grawemeyer prize, which she distributed to students around the country. In 2016, POLITICO magazine named her one of the top 50 people shaping American politics. Goldrick-Rab earned a Carnegie Fellowship, a William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award, the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award, and in 2021 she was named a Monumental Alumna by George Washington University. As a university professor, Goldrick-Rab earned tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent nearly 20 years there and at Temple University.
Having retired from academia in 2022, Goldrick-Rab now collaborates, mentors, and writes with people and organizations around the world as CEO of EduOptimists. She also serves as senior fellow at Education Northwest and teaches Sociology 101 at the Community College of Philadelphia. Her next book, Real College, is under development.
About The Sussman Lecture Series
The Sussman Lecture Series hosts a notable public policy figure to discuss topical current events with a small audience. The series was established by the late Richard Sussman (AS’51), in memory of his late wife Lila. Tickets are required and seating is limited to provide an intimate experience for attendees.
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