Podcast appearances and mentions of lauren schandevel

This episode of Strength in the Midst of Change features Lauren Schandevel, a U-M alum of the Ford School of Public Policy and creator of the crowd-sourced document, “Being Not-Rich at UM”, which serves as a guide for low-income students on campus. Lauren shares her experiences as a first-generation, low-income student, and speaks about public policy and community organizing.

In Part I of our two-part episode on workers in the Maine logging industry, we chat with Mark Hardison, a longtime woodcutter from Eastern Maine, near the town of Ellsworth. We talk about Mark's life, getting involved in the woods industry, and about the ways that the industry has changed over the years. We also talk about efforts to organize workers in the woods industry and the long and complicated history between American workers, Canadian workers, and the companies that pit them against each other. We also talk about the serious dangers that workers in this industry face on a daily basis, including Mark himself, who was nearly crushed to death by a hanging tree.  We also check in with our friend Lauren Schandevel for the first installment on her recurring segment, The Bellwether Bitch, where she breaks down media representations of Macomb County, MI, where Lauren grew up.  Working People call-in line #: 734-272-4402   Additional links/info below... Dan Morgan, The Washington Post, "Company 'Slavery' Ignites Maine Woodsmen's Union (1977)" Steve Fuller, The Ellsworth American, "Bucksport First Responders Help Save Injured Logger’s Life" Beth Brogan, News Center Maine, "Maine Loggers Poised to Unionize"   The Bellwether Bitch... Lauren's Twitter page The Lead, CNN, "Voters in Critical Swing State on Impeachment"   Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" November Polaroid, "Silent Ships"

This is episode two in a three-part series on paying for college. My guest for this episode is Lauren Schandevel, a 4th year Public Policy student at the University of Michigan and creator of the “Being Not-Rich” Guide--more on that shortly. On this episode we discuss: Where did the inspiration for the “Being Not-Rich” Guide come from? In what ways are higher ed institutions unsympathetic to the needs of low-income students, and how can this widen the gap between them and their wealthier peers? What's in the guide? What's been the impact? How you can access Lauren's guide and even Tips for creating your own “Not-Rich” Guide and spread the word Links from this episode: Being Not-Rich at UM The DIY Not-Rich Guide for other schools Affordability Michigan Facebook Group

If you would consider yourself “not-rich” and are headed to a campus that could very well be filled with lots of students who are, don't miss today's show. We're welcoming Lauren Schandevel, who encountered this challenge at the University of Michigan and created a guide to help other not-rich students survive and thrive at the university. Perhaps her advice will be useful to you. We'll also cover next steps for students who have made their final college choice and sent in their deposit. And last but certainly not least, we'll take a look at the question, “Do colleges care if you are kind?” and try to offer some answers.

If you would consider yourself “not-rich” and are headed to a campus that could very well be filled with lots of students who are, don't miss today's show. We're welcoming Lauren Schandevel, who encountered this challenge at the University of Michigan and created a guide to help other not-rich students survive and thrive at the university. Perhaps her advice will be useful to you. We'll also cover next steps for students who have made their final college choice and sent in their deposit. And last but certainly not least, we'll take a look at the question, “Do colleges care if you are kind?” and try to offer some answers.

Being not-rich at Michigan has been adapted by college students at other universities nationwide. It's a valuable resource for students and parents of all incomes, with great information about jobs, internships, mentors, community support, and more.

We brought friend of the show Lauren Schandevel back on to vent about and break down last week's college admissions scandal. Lauren (whom we interviewed back in Season 1) is a brilliant, working-class student at the University of Michigan and she has some thoughts about rich people buying and bribing their kids' way into elite colleges and universities.    Additional links/info below... Working People, Season 1, Episode 4, Lauren Schandevel   Lauren's Twitter page Martin Slagter, MLive, "2 University of Michigan Students Help Create Nation's First Social Class & Inequality Minor"  Scott Jaschick, Inside Higher Ed, "Massive Admissions Scandal"  Nathan J. Robinson, The Guardian, "Meritocracy Is a Myth Invented by the Rich"  The Chronicle of Higher Education continuing coverage of the admissions scandal, "Admission through the 'Side Door'"  Malcolm Harris, NY Mag, "The College Admissions Ring Tells Us How Much Schoolwork Is Worth" Being Not-Rich at UM guide  Jennifer Meer, The Michigan Daily, "University ranks last in economic mobility and diversity among elite public colleges"  Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox, & Kevin Quealy, The New York Times, "Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours"    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"

For many, the speed of change in academia is too slow, and the process too exclusionary.  Students themselves are often left out of these important conversations - that is until they insert themselves through organizing and advocacy to make sure their voices are heard. Our guests today are no strangers to inserting student voice into important policy and practice decisions. Through their efforts, they are making sure students are heard and accounted for in education reform. Join us as Lauren Schandevel talks about her student-led activism to better support low-income students at the University of Michigan, followed by a conversation with Rachel Fleischer, the executive director of Young Invincibles, who leads national campaigns to elevate student voice in important policy decisions.   Our episode closes with a new segment called Pop Ed, where we explore the growing and eccentric overlap between higher education and pop culture with Lumina’s own Dr. Katherine Wheatle.

Jeremiah and Joel talked with Lauren Schandevel of Affordable Michigan about coming to class consciousness, how to survive on college as a poor or working class student, and returning to the communities that created us to (professionally) rabble-rouse. Lauren is the founder of Affordable Michigan and started the "Being Not-Rich at UM" project.

In this episode, we talk to Lauren Schandevel, a low-income student at the University of Michigan who grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Warren, Michigan. Lauren is a really remarkable person, and in our interview we chat about what it was like to grow up in her part of Macomb County, which always seems to crop up every election cycle whenever news outlets want to figure out what’s happening in the Rust Belt. We talk about Lauren’s experience moving back and forth between worlds, between her working-class home and the school she transferred to, where she took classes and hung out with people from wealthier backgrounds. We talk about school, family, friends, and the ecstatic and dismal pangs of adolescence.   We spend a fair amount of time talking about what it’s like being a low-income student attending a public university where the median family income for students' families is over three times what it is for families in Lauren's hometown. And we also talk at length about what Lauren has been doing to bring a class-based analysis to higher education, including starting "Being Not Rich at UM," an open-source guide for low-income students like herself who are trying to navigate college life at UM. We discuss what it means to Lauren, and what it means for class politics in higher education, that this guide went viral, drew national attention, and has even inspired students at other universities to author similar guides.    Additional links/info below... Being Not-Rich at UM guide  Jennifer Meer, The Michigan Daily, "University ranks last in economic mobility and diversity among elite public colleges" Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox, & Kevin Quealy, The New York Times, "Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours" #RealCollege  Christopher Newfield, Johns Hopkins University Press, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities & How We Can Fix Them    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive) - Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" - Cosmo, "No Gods, No Masters" - Steve Combs, "Motown Rehearsal" - Strong Suit, "Derby Day"

A collective of students developed a misguided guide on budgeting whom many thought was tone deaf and insensitive. Several students "clapped back" with a guide of their own which is how I came to know Lauren Schandevel. Lauren Schandevel is a rising senior at the University of Michigan studying Public Policy with a minor in Community Action and Social Change. Originally from a working-class suburb of Detroit, Lauren's activism on campus is devoted to empowering and advocating for lower-income students.   To connect with Lauren:   * Facebook (for our organization): AffordabilityUMICH * Email: schandla@umich.edu