2022.15: It's Broke, and It Needs to Be Fixed

Professor Laura T. Hamilton

Department of Sociology

University of California - Merced

Books and articles written by Professor Hamilton

• Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Education, with Kelly Nielsen (2021)

• "Tolerable Suboptimization: Racial Consequences of Defunding Public Universities," with Kelly Nielsen and Veronica Lerma, 2021, in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(4): 561-578

• "Racialized Equity Labor, University Appropriation and Student Resistance," with Veronica Lerma and Kelly Nielsen, 2019, in Social Problems 67(2): 286-303

• Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College and Beyond (2016)

• Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, with Elizabeth A. Armstrong (2015)

Readings mentioned by Professor Hamilton

• Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd ed., by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (2014)

• Designing the New American University, by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars (2018)

• Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education, by Charlie Eaton (2022)

Suggested links for more information

• UIC United Faculty (union)

• UIC United Faculty Committee on Political Education (political action committee)

• UIC Graduate Employees Organization

• Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois System (Spring 2022)

• UC Riverside open letter to UC System president about "academic redlining"

• Illinois 2015-2017 budget issues explanation

Graphs looking at funding of public universities in Illinois (and the US)

Historical State Appropriations for Illinois Public Universities

Revenue sources by sector (All states)