Jay Hamilton

Talk Title: You Got In! Now What? Navigating College & Beyond

This talk will focus on lessons from my recent book, You Got In! Now What? 100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College. Decisions about what to study, how to spend time outside the classroom, and when to power down can feel overwhelming. This book breaks down these decisions about how to navigate college into eight categories: Meaning, Purpose, Thinking, Choosing, Connecting, Identity, Citizenship, and How to Go Wrong. It is based on reflections and research by Stanford students, alums, and faculty. I hope the book will help students headed to college explore new ideas, meet people, have adventures, and most importantly, beyond just earning a degree, get an education for life.

Bio: James T. Hamilton is the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Hearst Professor of Communication, and Director of the Journalism Program at Stanford. The winner of eight teaching awards at Harvard, Duke, and Stanford, he’s spent decades teaching and mentoring undergraduates and designing programs to help them thrive in college. His books on media economics include All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News and Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism. See also https://profiles.stanford.edu/james-hamilton