Paul Attewell Receives Grawemeyer Award for 2008 in the Category of Education Given by the University of Louisville, the Grawemeyer Award honors accomplishments that "help make the world a better place" in the fields of education, political science, music composition, religion, and psychology. It was established in the 1984 by University of Louisville alumnus and philanthropist H. Charles Grawemeyer. Sociologists Paul Attewell (Sociology and Urban Education) and David Lavin of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, have been named co-recipients of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for 2008 in the category of Education. Professors Attewell and Lavin will share the $200,000 prize that comes with the award, presented in recognition of a landmark study they co-authored showing the longterm benefits of providing disadvantaged women with access to higher education. Professors Attewell and Lavin's study revealed that the benefits of providing disadvantaged students, particularly women, with wider access to higher education are startling when measured over the course of a lifetime, rather than just the traditional span of college attendance. The authors found that over a 30-year period, surveyed women admitted to City University of New York in the early 1970s ultimately achieved a 70% college graduation rate, earned an annual average of $7,525 more than they otherwise would have, and passed the benefits of their educational experience on to their children. The patterns were similar to a 20-year longitudinal study of students nationwide, to which the City University data were compared. The complete findings were reported as a book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in April 2007. The authors were assisted in the research by recent doctoral graduates Thurston Domina and Tania Levy.
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