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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&
Higher Ed
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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%
Research
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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
Research
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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
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