Author Description

About the Author Jeff Manza is Professor of Sociology at New York University. Christopher Uggen is Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Lynne A. Haney is Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the author of "Inventing the Needy: Gender, Politics, and State Development in Hungary" and a coauthor of "Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World" (both available from UC Press). She is also the editor of "Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context." Richard Arum has recently served as Professor of Sociology and Education at New York University; Program Director of Education Research at the Social Science Research Council; and Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His past work with various co-authors includes Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003); Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007); and Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2012).