On Feb. 19, Catharine Bond Hill, President and Professor of Economics at Vassar College, examined “Democracy and Access to Higher Education.” Hill co-authored “Access to the Most Selective Private Colleges by High-Ability, Low-Income Students: Are They Out There?” in College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? and “Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities” in the Journal of Human Resources. She has been selected for a number of scholarly awards, grants, and fellowships from such organizations as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Brookings Institution, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. She graduated summa cum laude from Williams College, and also earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Brasenose College, Oxford University, with first-class honors in politics, philosophy and economics. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at Yale University.