The How and Why of Social Mobility: Launching The Social Mobility Lab

On April 15, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York will launch The Social Mobility Lab, an initiative to support scholarship, convenings, and public events about social mobility and higher education. The Lab aims to advance understanding of how higher education in the United States expands and accelerates opportunities for students and the families and communities from which they come.

Why launch this lab at CUNY?
Study after study suggests that CUNY is among the most effective engines of social mobility in the United States. According to The New York Times, CUNY has “propelled almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined.” Our success is clear. But we know far less than we should about how we do it and the methods and resources required to scale and replicate our success across higher education in the United States.

Our keynote speaker is: Paul Tough, author of The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us. That will be followed by a panel discussion led by Elvin Garcia, CCNY Alumnus and Director of Government Relations at NYU; Cristina Jiménez Moreta, CUNY Alumna and Distinguished Lecturer at CCNY; and, Dee Dee Mozeleski, Vice President of CCNY’s Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations. CCNY President Vince Boudreau will share closing remarks.

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