“Figuring out your place at a school like this:” Intersectionality and sense of belonging among STEM and non-STEM college students

SM Ovink, WC Byrd, M Nanney, A Wilson - PLoS One, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Students' sense of belonging in college—an individual's feelings of
contentment, mattering, importance, and “finding one's place” in a social setting—can …

Addressing economic inequality through management education: Disrupting student attraction to the myth of neoliberal meritocracy

M Eisenman, H Foroughi… - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
In this essay, we argue that economic inequality is reproduced because business students
uncritically accept the neoliberal myth of meritocracy. This myth advances values and beliefs …

A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students

JJ Kim - Social Problems, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Research on occupational choice focuses on individualistic work values and emphasizes
economic returns. Drawing from 62 in-depth interviews with Asian, Black, and White first …

Pink Slips (for Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19

AA Jack, BS Bassett - Sociology of Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although undergraduates from all class backgrounds work while attending college, little is
known about how students approach finding work and the benefits they reap from different …

Gender, credentials & success: An examination of educational attainment in top management teams

AR Ingersoll, C Glass, A Cook - Social Science Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent decades, women have made historic gains in educational attainment, now
outpacing men in terms of college enrollment and degree completion. Yet, despite the …

The Pact: How a Seemingly Race-Neutral Behavioral Policy Reproduced Racial Inequality at a Predominantly White Liberal Arts College

A Gillis, EG van Stee - Socius, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How do seemingly nonracial organizational processes reproduce racial inequality? This
study examines how “the Pact,” an ostensibly race-neutral COVID-19 behavioral policy …

Avoiding the “Rat race”: Hong Kong students' sense of belonging to a Chinese university in the Greater Bay Area

F Gao - International Journal of Educational Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Inbound Hong Kong students constitute a substantial and growing population at
mainland Chinese universities in the Greater Bay Area (the GBA). However, their university …

'It's like two Europes here, the West and the East'. Belonging and fitting in at an elite graduate school

A Pásztor - Studies in Higher Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While there has been a proliferation of research on the experiences of nonelite students in
elite settings, scholarly attention has predominantly focused on institutions like the Ivy …

Lucky Me: Acknowledging Class Privilege on an Elite College Campus

J Thornton - Socius, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing literature highlights the experiences of first-generation, low-income (FGLI)
students on college campuses. However, these studies often conflate the positions of middle …

Black womyn have always been leaders: Understanding the experiences of black womyn leaders and activism on college campuses

JL Lee‐Johnson, K Ray, AT Hardaway… - New Directions for …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Black womyn have always been at the forefront of social justice activism and are overlooked
due to patriarchal understandings of leadership. Using a case‐study approach and Black …