Speaker: Tressie McMillan Cottom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Title: “Higher Education, Digital Transformation and COVID-19”

Tressie McMillan Cottom, is an associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (UNC) and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. She received a PhD in Sociology at Emory in 2015. Dr. McMillan Cottom’s research spans higher ed, labor, race, class, gender and digital societies.   She is the author of LOWER ED:  THE TROUBLING RISE OF FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN THE NEW ECONOMY and the award-winning essay collection THICK.

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