Spring 2025 Sussman Lecture: Students Are Humans First with Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab

Date: Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 7:00 p.m.

Location: Tom and Ruth Harkin Center, 2800 University Avenue, 50311

Event Information

Description

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.

Neighborhoods

Drake

Host Organization

The Harkin Institute

Website

https://harkininstitute.drake.edu/2025/01/15/february-20-sussman-lecture-dr-sara-goldrick-rab/

Pricing Information

Free

Contact

Kathryn Kuckelman
5152711895
kathryn.kuckelman@drake.edu