"Friends with Academic Benefits"

College students’ friendship networks are associated with specific social and academic benefits, and their friends are both resources and liabilities in academic achievement. Read the full article about this in the American Sociological Association's Contexts journal here, found in the "Features" section of the Table of Contents, or here as an separate pdf.

Additional news coverage of Janice McCabe's research can be seen here:  NBC News, New Hampshire Public Radio, Quartz, Inside Higher Ed,  NY Mag, and the Boston Globe.