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
My College Isn't Newsworthy. Is Yours?
There will hopefully be a good amount of attention on education policy in this U.S. election season. The question
Book Review: Class by Stephanie Land
Later, she'd go on to write the book Maid and that memoir of cleaning privileged people's
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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
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