College as Finishing School for Wealthy Kids
I remember reading novels in which young women in elite social circles were sent to "finishing schools" to
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People from Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds at the [Next] Table
I'm thinking a lot about who will be at the table as we move forward in our public
Moral-Meaning Making Among Agents of Inequality
How do people explain their moral decisions to participate in projects that unfairly benefit a small number of privileged people
Redefining Merit in Elite College Admissions
The Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund has written an excellent report on "merit based"
Educating for Class Diversity in Leadership
We've long known that the Ivy Plus schools (the eight Ivy League colleges plus Chicago, Duke, MIT and
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Which First-Generation Students Are/Are Not of Interest to Scholars?
There are many forms of scholarly writing, and book-length studies of campus life take us beyond surveys or interview-with-strangers papers
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Social Class Humor (!)
From the satire site The Onion: Impressionable Teen Falls In With The Wrong Social Class In which the distraught mother
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A Century of Exclusion
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released their detailed analysis of "the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds
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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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