Hamilton and Nielson are the 2024 recipients of the which recognizes innovative ideas with the potential to improve educational practices and student achievement.

Their findings argue that decades of public funding cuts have crippled public universities’ ability to serve racially and economically disadvantaged students, with schools enrolling the most marginalized students receiving the fewest resources.

Hamilton and Nielsen pinpoint three major developments in higher education over the past 50 years that contribute to a separate and unequal system: demographic shifts in student enrollment at public universities, significant cuts to public funding for higher education and the decline of race-based affirmative action during this period.

“These issues are deeply interconnected,” Hamilton said.

The book identifies a cyclical pattern of racial resource allocation within universities, driven by the three historical dynamics. The cycle has five elements:

• The social construct of 鈥榤erit鈥�
• The racial segregation in higher education
• The racialized organizational hierarchies
• Unequal access to private resources and
• Inadequate student support

鈥淲e see a cycle whereby resources are allocated through mechanisms that distribute them along racial lines,鈥� Nielson explained. 鈥淭he cycle channels educational resources to universities that serve more privileged student populations and starves universities serving primarily racially and economically disadvantaged students.鈥澛犅�

Hamilton and Nielson also emphasized the importance of reminding the public that higher education is a public good, benefiting everyone, not just a private commodity.

鈥淭hat kind of thinking traps you because you can鈥檛 step out of it and think about what it looks like to actually design institutions for social good rather than for people we think have successfully competed in the market to attain those services or goods,鈥� Hamilton said.

The Grawemeyer Award in 成人直播 has been presented yearly since 1989. The annual $100,000 prizes also honor seminal ideas in music, world order, psychology and religion.

“Our hope is that the book can be used by universities with limited resources to fight for more support,” Hamilton and Nielsen said. “The Grawemeyer Award is a powerful platform to amplify our message that public universities need public funding. We are thankful for this recognition.”

The $100,000 Grawemeyer prizes also honor seminal ideas in ,听,听听补苍诲听. Winners visit Louisville to accept their awards and give free talks on their winning ideas.

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UofL presents the annual prizes in music, world order, psychology, education and religion and gives the religion prize jointly with the seminary. All of the 2024 winners will visit Louisville in April to give free, public talks on their winning ideas.

The winners are:

• Aleksandra Vrebalov, a Serbian-American composer who won the music prize for a chorale work transcending a single language, culture or religion to express how all life is interconnected
• Neta Crawford, a University of Oxford international relations scholar who won the world order prize for analyzing the Pentagon鈥檚 carbon footprint and its effect on climate change
• Ann Masten, a University of Minnesota child development scholar who won the psychology prize for finding that resilience comes from 鈥渙rdinary magic鈥� within us and our supportive connections with others
• Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen, two University of California sociologists who co-won the education prize for exploring the racial consequences of funding cuts at public universities
• The Rev. Charles Halton, an Episcopal priest in Lexington, Ky., who explained how embracing God as a being with human qualities can inspire us to become better people

鈥淭he Grawemeyer Awards recognize highly constructive ideas with world-changing potential and that鈥檚 certainly true of the ideas we鈥檙e honoring this time.鈥� said Marion Hambrick, the awards program鈥檚 executive director.

Vrebalov shows how music can unite us despite our differences, while Crawford sheds new light on the U.S. military鈥檚 role in climate change. Masten explains why some people recover quickly from major setbacks when others don鈥檛. Hamilton and Nielsen call for a fairer way to fund the nation鈥檚 public universities and Halton offers a fresh perspective on spiritual growth.

UofL graduate Charles Grawemeyer created the Grawemeyer Awards in 1984 with an initial endowment of $9 million. The first award, music composition, was presented in 1985. 成人直播 was added in 1989, religion in 1990, world order in 1998 and psychology in 2000.

Grawemeyer distinguished the awards by honoring ideas rather than lifelong achievement, also insisting that laypeople as well as professionals take part in the selection process.

Two University of California sociologists exploring that question are cowinners of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in 成人直播 for their ideas in 鈥淏roke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.鈥� University of Chicago Press published the in 2021.

In the work, and argue that decades of cuts in public funding for public universities have eroded schools鈥� abilities to deliver a quality education to racially and economically marginalized students.

For years, public universities operated mainly with government funds, which have been tapering off since the 1980s.听 Most schools have had to trim costs and raise tuition. Many have turned to philanthropy, investments and other sources of private income to stay afloat, a trend that has penalized schools with the highest number of marginalized students, Hamilton and Nielsen found.

鈥淧ublic universities have faced decades of austerity and were hit hard by COVID-19, but those primarily serving marginalized students are being literally starved for resources,鈥� Hamilton said.

In a study focusing on UC鈥檚 system of nine schools, Hamilton and Nielsen found the two campuses with the highest number of such students, Merced and Riverside, received fewer system resources. Some underfunded universities struggle to provide basic services to students, who may wait a month or more for mental health appointments and compete with hundreds of their peers to schedule sessions with academic advisers.

鈥淭his pattern is not just restricted to the UC system,鈥� Hamilton said. 鈥淯niversity wealth is nationally concentrated at schools that serve very few marginalized students.鈥�

Hamilton and Nielsen make a compelling case for rethinking the way we fund public universities, said education award director Jeff Valentine. 鈥淭heir work raises important ethical and philosophical questions about what higher education is, what it should be and how a more equitable funding method can benefit everyone in our society.鈥�

Recipients of next year鈥檚 are being named this week pending formal trustee approval. The annual, $100,000 prizes also honor seminal ideas in music, world order, psychology and religion. Winners will visit Louisville in the spring to accept their awards and give free talks on their winning ideas.