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
Podcast: Anna Stansbury on Class Gaps in the Professorate
I wrote a few weeks ago about Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez's research on large social class gaps
The Politics of Hunger on Campus
Nearly one in four undergraduates and one in eight graduate students face food insecurity. On some campuses, half of all
Book Review: Can College Level the Playing Field? by Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson
The context for much of what I think about on this site is articulated in the central question of this
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College classism and low-income students in hiding
"Students who are low-income encounter classism in college". Of course they do. And in this study of low-income
Pathways to Leadership in the U.S.: Elite College Admissions
Who rises to leadership in the U.S.? It should come as no surprise that U.S. senators, Supreme Court
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When Employers Favor the Lacrosse Player Over the "Resilient" Applicant
With multiple links to multiple studies, sociologist Jessi Streib writes in Forbes of the many ways that employers discriminate against
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Clam Bakes and College Admissions
I wrote last week about ongoing struggles for adequate public school funding, both across and within school districts, and how
Dorm Room Designers and Disappearing Poor Students
At Ole Miss and other southern schools, hundreds of students are paying interior designers who specialize in dorm rooms to
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The Struggle for Public School Funding, Again
When I first moved to Seattle, I made the rounds of multiple school districts that would be partnering with our