Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

First-generation students (FGSs) have received a great deal of attention in education
research, practice, and policy. The difficulty of understanding and subsequently addressing …

Despite the special role of tenure-track faculty in society, training future researchers and
producing scholarship that drives scientific and technological innovation, the …

In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

“Profoundly eye-opening.… Hirsch and Khan present a novel model for explaining and
responding to campus sexual assault.”—Claire M. Renzetti, Science Research has shown …

Human capital theory assumes that education determines the marginal productivity of labour
and this determines earnings. Since the 1960s, it has dominated the economics, and policy …

A number of factors have contributed to the crisis in higher education, including the long‐
term transformation in funding. In this article, I argue that neoliberalism can explain many of …

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

Worldwide participation in higher education now includes one-third of the age cohort and is
growing at an unprecedented rate. The tendency to rapid growth, leading towards high …

Building on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations, this address argues that US Millennials
comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them …