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Keynote Speaker

Meeting the Needs of Less Privileged Students: The Role of Academic Advisors

Our keynote speaker for this year's UC Academic Advisor Conference will be UC Merced sociology Professor Laura T. Hamilton. Hamilton coauthored “Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality,” which follows a group of 53 women who started college at the same mid-tier state university and lived on the same dormitory floor, as they went through college and out into the workforce.

Read more about our Keynote Speaker's book Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality:

Harvard University Press
The Chronicle of Higher Education
UC Merced News