Accessing High Status Sisterhood: Paying to Get Skinny
I've been traveling and mostly off-line (yeah!) but bookmarked some things to read more carefully when I got
Education & Class
In the Messy Social Spaces Between Constraint and Opportunity
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"Dramatic" Inequalities in Investments in College Students
It's easy to assume that our highly stratified system of higher education has always existed, that high achieving
Chaos and Confusion in Student Loans
There are been several recent dismaying articles about the chaos and confusion about student loans in the wake of major
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The Invisibility of Class in the Curriculum;The Invisibility of Broader Class Inequality in the Analysis
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an opinion piece on the invisibility of social class in the college curriculum.
(quick) Book Review: The Payback
I just finished Kashana Cauley's The Playback and recommend it highly as a serious, sobering, and funny romp
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The Working Class in Print Media:Talked About More at Elections, Listened to Less
Last week, the Economic Hardship Project and the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University released a
The Multidimensional Costs of Student Debt
We know that being deep in student debt means more than simply managing monthly payments. Daniel Collier at the University
Precarity for Low-Income Students, By Design
I read so often about the importance of students' sense of "belonging" in college, and yet just
Penalties for Succeeding with Low-Income Students
In 2023, Texas changed how community colleges would be funded. Instead of the state sending money for the number of
Destabilizing Bills, No Family Wealth: The Need for Campus Emergency Funds
The Hope Center has released a new analysis of emergency financial assistance on college campuses, and the news is not
Learning Power
When I was an undergraduate, I did volunteer work with a remarkable 2nd grade teacher in an elementary school in
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Listening to Poor and Working-Class [Non]Voters
I've spent a lot of time in the past few weeks listening to political discourse about social class.