Ideas for Moving Up: A Campaign from the Social Mobility Lab
Did you know your success can be shaped by small choices?
For example, where you sit in class. How many mentors you have. And whether you believe upward mobility is possible. These factors add up.
Ideas for Moving Up is a year-long campaign. It is being designed to bring research like this to students, staff, and faculty. Such research too often lives in academic journals and behind paywalls, never making it to those people who could most benefit from the information.
Each week, we’ll be sharing actionable tips, resources, and inspiring stories focused on empowering students to advocate for themselves and seize opportunities to create a better life for themselves and their family.
This campaign is being led by the Social Mobility Lab at the Colin Powell School, City College of New York. The Lab’s mission is simple: accelerate and expand opportunity for our students, their families, and their communities.
For regular updates, follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn, to see how Ideas for Moving Up and other updates from our Lab can help you in your journey.
To get involved—or to learn more—please contact Bob McKinnon, Director of the Social Mobility Lab, at rmckinnon@ccny.cuny.edu.
About the Social Mobility Lab – The Social Mobility Lab at the Colin Powell School, City College of New York aims to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for our students, their families and the communities they represent. The Lab supports research, teaching, public discussions, and experimentation — all geared to promote a better understanding of social mobility and the role higher education plays in advancing it. The Lab is unique among organizations focused on social mobility, because it is community-based and geared toward implementation of solutions: as we learn, we will translate that knowledge into programs and practices to help our students move up in life and will engage the people and communities who can most benefit from what we are doing at every stage of our work.
