Columbia University Professor to Lecture on Need-Based Student Aid

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Judith Scott-Clayton

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Judith Scott-Clayton, an associate professor of education and economics at Columbia University, will speak at noon Friday, April 8, at the University of Arkansas. The title of her lecture is “Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid.”

The lecture is part of the Department of Education Reform Lecture Series and will take place in Room 343, Graduate Education Building.

Those planning to attend any of the lectures in the series are asked to RSVP on the Department of Education Reform's website before 1 p.m. the Wednesday preceding the lecture.

Scott-Clayton teaches courses on labor economics and quantitative methods for causal inference. Her focus is on financial aid, student employment and programmatic barriers to persistence and completion at institutions that enroll mostly undergraduates. She is also a senior research assistant at the Community College Research Center based at Teachers College, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Scott-Clayton has studied the impact of West Virginia's PROMISE scholarship that received coverage from CNN and The New York Times Magazine. Much of her work has contributed to national policy debates about financial aid simplification. Scott-Clayton's ongoing projects involve the impact of remediation on future college outcomes, student employment, administrative data sources and postsecondary experiences on future earnings.