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Tressie McMillan Cottom is digital sociologist, professor, writer and columnist. She publishes and lectures around the world on inequality, higher education, technology and culture. She is the editor and author of several books, including the critically-acclaimed, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the U.S.” (The New Press).  With her colleagues, she has developed the first graduate degree programs in Digital Sociology. Professor Cottom's research, writing, teaching, and speaking Dr. Cottom shapes national conversations about inequality in the digital society.

What people are saying about...

Lower Ed: 

"With great compassion and analytical rigor, Cottom questions the fundamental narrative of American education policy: that a postsecondary degree always guarantees a better life." - The New York Times

"This is a must-read read book for anyone in the fields of sociology of education. And on a methodological note, this book is a master class in research and triangulating across types of data, from which graduate students and other early-career researchers could learn much. -- The Harvard Educational Review

"Lower ed is a also a clear prompt for readers to dig deeper into the question of the notorious "skills gap" or the notion that students graduate without the necessary skills for a digital economy." - Journal of Cultural Economy

Digital Sociologies:

"This is a clarion call to the discipline of sociology to reassert itself as a leader in developing methods to study human lived experience and reexamine its scholarly review processes." - Choice Connect, Association of College and Research Libraries

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