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.

But other, longer-term issues remain, perhaps with even more consequential implications for the U.S. higher education sector. One of the most pressing, argues Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Christina Ciocca Eller, is how to understand and address longstanding inequalities between students from different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds, especially in light of COVID-19.... Read more about Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 on Higher Education Inequality in the United States

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

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

In this fall’s Sociology of Asian America/ns class, Dr. Vivian Shaw encouraged students to reflect on their own positionalities as students at Harvard University by collaborating on a project about race, affirmative action, and Harvard.... Read more about Harvard and affirmative action - a collaborative project assembled by the students of Sociology of Asian America/ns