Education and Society

2021 Apr 16

A Panel Discussion: Choosing Schools Across National Contexts

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Zoom link provided upon registration below.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop

Panelists:

Adrienne Atterberry, PhD Candidate at Syracuse University, Sociology
Siqi Lu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Bailey Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton/Assistant Professor at Spelman College, Sociology
Fangsheng Zhu, PhD...

2021 Feb 26

Orlando Patterson: The Comparative Economic Sociology of the Jamaican Education System: A Prelude to Reform

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Zoom link provided upon registration below.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Orlando Patterson, Harvard University.

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link. You can also join the mailing list to automatically receive all Zoom invites.

Faculty Spotlight: Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 on Higher Education Inequality in the United States

June 1, 2020

Amid the unprecedented disruption of COVID-19, the 2019-2020 academic year has come to a close for most college and university students in the United States. Yet many are asking: now what? Higher education leaders are offering some answers, speaking to immediate concerns like whether teaching and learning will take place on colleges campuses come the fall, how financial arrangements will be handled, and what scaled-up virtual learning might look like.

Manja Klemencic honored as a Most Favorite Professor in the Harvard Yearbook for the Class of 2020.

April 22, 2020

Manja Klemencic, favorite professor of so many Harvard College students, is for the *second time* honored as a Most Favorite Professor in the Harvard Yearbook for the Class of 2020. Read more about Manja Klemencic honored as a Most Favorite Professor in the Harvard Yearbook for the Class of 2020.

2020 Apr 16

Steven Brint: U.S. Higher Education Before and After Coronavirus: Will American Universities Remain Strong? Will They Meet the Challenges They Face?

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

Zoom link provided upon registration

Webinar: U.S. Higher Education Before and After Coronavirus Presented by Universities: Past, Present, and Future

Special Online...

Klemenčič, Manja, and Sabine Hoidn. Forthcoming. The Routledge International Handbook of Student-centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. 1st ed. Routledge.

co-editor Manja Klemenčič,, ed. 2020. Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. 1st ed. Netherlands: Springer. Publisher's Version

Cross, Christina J., and Paula Fomby. 2018. “Parents Who Left College and Children’s Postsecondary Educational Attainment”. Sociological Forum 33 (4):923-949.

Cross, Christina J. 2020. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Family Structure and Children’s Education”. Journal of Marriage and Family 81 (2):691-712.

Patterson to head Jamaica Education Transformation Commission

March 23, 2020

Orlando Patterson, John Cowles, Professor of Sociology, has been appointed by the Prime Minister of Jamaica to head the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission 2020,... Read more about Patterson to head Jamaica Education Transformation Commission

Advice to Students: Don't be Afraid to Ask for Help

March 9, 2020

Anthony A. Jack (Ph.D. 2016) was interviewed for the Harvard Gazette series "Focal Point" See "Advice to Students: Dont' be Afraid to Ask for Help" (Harvard Gazette, March 9, 2020).... Read more about Advice to Students: Don't be Afraid to Ask for Help

Inequality in the U.S. and Europe

February 28, 2020

Harvard professors, Michèle Lamont and Peter A. Hall, and University of California at Berkeley professor, Paul Pierson discuss how housing and education can reinforce inequality,... Read more about Inequality in the U.S. and Europe

Holding Colleges Accountable to Student Improvement, Not Outcomes

February 12, 2020

Christina Ciocca Eller was recenlty interviewed for Enrollment Growth University on the topic of Holding Colleges... Read more about Holding Colleges Accountable to Student Improvement, Not Outcomes

2020 Feb 13

Jayanti Owens: What drives racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline?

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street

Social Demography Seminar presentation by Jayanti Owens, Brown University.

2020 Feb 11

David Mickey Pabello: The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: Where Students Enroll After Affirmative Action Bans

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 450

Special Colloquium: Presentation by Dr. David Mickey Pabello, Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnoracial Relations at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard.

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Department of Sociology

Education and Society

A Panel Discussion: Choosing Schools Across National Contexts

Location:

Orlando Patterson: The Comparative Economic Sociology of the Jamaican Education System: A Prelude to Reform

Location:

Faculty Spotlight: Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 on Higher Education Inequality in the United States

Manja Klemencic honored as a Most Favorite Professor in the Harvard Yearbook for the Class of 2020.

Steven Brint: U.S. Higher Education Before and After Coronavirus: Will American Universities Remain Strong? Will They Meet the Challenges They Face?

Location:

Patterson to head Jamaica Education Transformation Commission

Advice to Students: Don't be Afraid to Ask for Help

Inequality in the U.S. and Europe

Holding Colleges Accountable to Student Improvement, Not Outcomes

Jayanti Owens: What drives racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline?

Location:

David Mickey Pabello: The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: Where Students Enroll After Affirmative Action Bans

Location:

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