138 - Thematic Session. Limiting the Damage: Reaching and Teaching Underserved Populations in Hard Times

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

As economic stagnation and retrenchment in state expenditures have tightened access to higher education, sociologists and other educators have begun experimenting with new ways to reach and teach underserved populations. Through creative research and teaching alike, sociologists are finding critical interventions, technological solutions, and pedagogical methods that offer at least the possibility for providing advanced education in hard times to those not fortunate enough to afford the rising tuitions of elite private and public institutions alike. This session brings together teaching scholars from a range of settings to share sociological insights on how to leverage technology, media and teaching methods to mitigate the educational damage that recession has brought to higher education.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Daniel F. Chambliss, Hamilton College

Presider

• Daniel F. Chambliss, Hamilton College

Panelists

• Dalton Conley, New York University

• Diane Pike, Augsburg College

• James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University

• Steven G. Brint, University of California-Riverside