Paying for the Party

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Laura T. Hamilton

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• In the New York Times, read Frank Bruni’s discussion with Elizabeth Armstrong about the Rolling Stone/University of Virginia sexual assault controversy
• Read Maria Shriver’s interview with Laura Hamilton at NBC News
• Read Armstrong and Hamilton’s contribution to a New York Times “Room for Debate” forum, “Who Should Get Financial Aid?”
• In the New York Times, read a Q&A with Armstrong and columnist Ross Douthat’s reading of the book as “a story about the socioeconomic consequences of cultural permissiveness”
• At the Guardian, read Jessica Valenti on how Paying for the Party echoes her own years in school, and how the book could help to counteract the college experience’s disturbing reinforcement of class inequality
• At Forbes, read why paying for your children’s college education—assuming it’s an option—might not necessarily be the best idea
• At Times Higher Education, read an interview with Armstrong and Hamilton about their discoveries and experience connecting with the students at “Midwest University” (site registration req’d), and, from NBC News, a conversation with Hamilton on hard truths in higher education
• Listen to Armstrong and Hamilton talk with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about how college can exacerbate class differences rather than acting as a gateway to upward social mobility
• At Time, read how colleges increasingly cater to “cash cow” students (who are likely to follow Armstrong and Hamilton’s “party pathway” model) while burdening lower-income students with increasing debt
• Read more about the “party pathway” at the Time blog Ideas and at Inside Higher Ed
• Read a Q&A with Armstrong and Hamilton in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and one with Armstrong in the Globe and Mail
• Read about one surprising finding from Armstrong and Hamilton’s research—that financial support from parents may act as a “moral hazard” for their children, leading to lower college grades—at Inside Higher Ed, Forbes, and the New York Times
• In The Atlantic, read more about the research behind Paying for the Party
• In the Chronicle Review, read Armstrong and Hamilton’s argument that economic trends lure colleges to cater to the social and educational needs of affluent students—at the expense of others
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