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Graduate Student, Sociology
Engaged Research Fellow
Emory University, Office University-Community Partnerships
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Richard Rubinson
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Despite overwhelming evidence that a college degree is not merely a political object but also a socially constructed object that is traded for economic and cultural capital there has been no scholarly attention paid to the legitimacy of for-profit college degrees.
I employ mixed methods to examine why students choose for-profit colleges, if for-profit credentials are socially construed as legitimate, and what these interactions means for social mobility and labor outcomes across and within national contexts.
As co-lead on a grant from the American Educational Research Association I am co-organizing, “Access, Opportunity, and For-Profit Higher Education” with the Research Network for Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke University in September 2012. I can be found at @tressiemcphd and www.tressiemc.com.
Other interests include: status-competition theory among and within cultural and cross-national contexts; legitimation processes; power within organizations; spatial (dis)opportunity; and, institutional memory.
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