In 2015, the New York Times reported," The bright children of janitors and nail salon
workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations …

Low‐income, first‐generation, and/or working‐class students (LIFGWC) attending selective
colleges and universities must navigate class‐dominant spaces, often encountering …

Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges
through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It …

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not
equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able …

Abstract In the United States, attending a selective liberal arts college is often a sign of
success. Human capital theory assumes graduates from these colleges share similar …

Purpose The overarching question of this paper is,“What are the advantages of being an
upwardly mobile academic?” The extant academic research on working-class academics …

Higher education physics has long been a field with a disproportionately skewed
representation in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity. Responding to this challenge, this …

This paper looks at the phenomenon of upward mobility through education from a
comparative and historical perspective. Pierre Bourdieu referred to upwardly mobile …

bell hooks writes that to sustain myths of meritocratic educational systems, college
campuses remain silent about social class differences. For poor and working-class first …

Examining how individuals negotiate a Filipino identity in Hawai'i provides insights into the
fluidity and flexibility of racism. Filipino identities in Hawai'i are often negotiated at the …