Pathways Network began with our shared sense that the complexity of academic progress in college wasn’t very well captured in social science research. Our shared work seeks to capture this complexity, while also providing insights that are concise enough to help improve and smooth academic progress in tangible ways.


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Silver, B.R. (2024). Degrees of Risk: Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chambliss, D.F., Takacs. C.G. (2018). How College Works. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

McCabe, J.M. (2016). Connecting in College: How Friendships Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Armstrong, E.A., Hamilton L.T. (2015). Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Carr, P.J., Kefalas, M. (2010). Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America. New York: Penguin/Beacon.