Sara Goldrick-Rab

Oct 24, 2024 | press.jhu.edu | Ned Laff |Scott Carlson |Sara Goldrick-Rab |David V. Rosowsky

How college faculty and staff can help students "hack" their college experience through a proactive, personalized approach to success. College is a complex, high-stakes game, according to authors Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, but students can learn how to win it. Hacking College offers college advisors, faculty, and staff in student and academic affairs a groundbreaking guide to rethinking higher education so that students can succeed in an increasingly complex world.

Sep 26, 2024 | diverseeducation.com | Sara Goldrick-Rab

It’s finally happened. After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. Earlier this month I attended a parent meeting at his Philadelphia public school and listened as an experienced educator told us, “At some point during this process you will hate your child. There’s no way around it.”  No way.

Aug 28, 2024 | diverseeducation.com | Sara Goldrick-Rab

Another school year is underway, which means millions of students are again struggling to learn without their basic needs met, and thousands of colleges are trying to teach with grossly inadequate resources. Far from “very demure, very mindful,” this situation should engage us. It should make us think. It should make us vote. The fact is that the egregious underfunding of American public higher education and its minority-serving institutions is primarily a political problem.

Aug 2, 2024 | diverseeducation.com | Sara Goldrick-Rab

In a few short weeks, fall term will be upon us and millions of students will flood classrooms. While their past transcripts, test scores, and applications indicate something about who they are and how they are doing, the truth is that we won’t know much about their lives without asking better questions. If one thing’s certain these days, it’s that we are constantly changing with the world around us.

May 2, 2024 | diverseeducation.com | Sara Goldrick-Rab

Casualties of the ongoing FAFSA debacle continue to stack up, even as Federal Student Aid Director Richard Cordray leaves the situation behind. While the U.S.Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist.