Book Review: Rising Class
In Rising Class: How Three First Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year, Jennifer Miller writes of Briani (a Latina
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Rural Students and Declining Opportunity
Rural students enrolled at regional public universities are facing declining opportunities as their underfunded colleges slash majors. While many colleges
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Incremental Gains in Campus Diversity: A New Report
Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce has released a new report, Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade
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Organizing for Equity
The group Class Action has been doing great work around ending legacy admissions at elite campuses. There's much
Stanford, On Classism
In my ongoing quest to find discourse about class and classism on campus, I just came across Stanford's
"Confessing" Class on Campus
Last week, I wrote about how rarely colleges and universities name the classism that low-income and working-class students experience on
"Don't Be a Snob"
We know that many low-income/ working class students work to conceal their backgrounds on campus to avoid judgment and stigma.
A Blue Print for Student "Basic Needs Infrastructure"
A few years ago when a student just disappeared from class, I called her and learned that her car had
An Annual Celebration of First-Gen College Students
One of my interests is in what poor and working-class students learn about themselves via messages that they get from
AI, Politics and Inequality from Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom has been one of my favorite sociologists for a long time, and her mini-lecture on inequality and
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A Million People Serving the Public, Now Free of College Debt
There is still more work to be done, but as of today, one million people who chose work in the
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A New Residential Two Year College for Low-Income First-Gen Students
Boston College has opened a new small two-year residential junior college for low-income first-generation students. There is so much here