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Rural Students Appearing on the Admissions Radar
In winter when the trees were bare, I could see the field of corn stubble from my bedroom window, just
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Anthony Abraham Jack and the Intersections of Class and Race
Anthony Abraham Jack's new book Class Dismissed on the intersections of class and race in higher ed comes
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Elite Education for the Political Elite?
There is a lot of news today about the democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, including the fact that he&
Legacy Admissions: Where Are We?
If you (like me) have been looking for updates on what states (and the feds) are doing to ban legacy
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Hungry Students
This week, the Government Accountability Office issued a new report on student food insecurity, and it's grim. * 23%
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Campus Work, Stratified by Social Class
I often see data on how many college students work and I have often cited the research showing that first-generation
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More Evidence of Class Gaps in the Professorship
Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriquez have released a new working paper on large class gaps in hiring and tenure decisions
Trailblazers
Someday soon, I'm going to write an entire post on the ways in which campuses describe first-generation students
Who Tells Our Stories?
In a profile of Sarahy Torres, a remarkable first-generation student graduating from UCLA this year, she describes her mother taking
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Middle Class Mobilty Stories
Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working class? These interviews with British professionals from
Book Review: Nice is Not Enough by C.J. Pascoe
Years ago, I did a year of ethnographic research in a historically white high school that understood itself to be
Education and Class in the News, April 15-May 1
JFF Study of Financial Insecurity in College A new report, Unveiling Disparities: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Gaps in Student Financial