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Toxic Class Encounters
It’s thirty years this autumn since I began my undergraduate degree at Durham University in the North East of England. To tell you the truth I didn’t know much about the city before I applied there. My visit for the … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman
Tagged class privilege, classism, Durham University, working-class students
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The Class System of Higher Ed Goes Online
Most American colleges and universities moved courses online over the last week. That shift highlights the class disparities of higher education. For example, at Georgetown, by the time the University President announced that classes were moving online, more than 30 … Continue reading
Amplified Advantage: Why Education Is Not the Answer to Our Class Problems
Thirty years ago, after having dropped out of college after just one term, unable to pay for my dorm room, I was unsure if I would ever leave the working class. Two years later I was a student at Barnard … Continue reading
Posted in Allison L. Hurst, Class and Education, Contributors, Issues
Tagged higher education, inequality, working-class students
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Working-Class Precarity: An Education
The teacher who most influenced me was Raphael Samuel, one of the leading social historians of his time – though I didn’t know that when I studied with him. Raph, as we came to know him, had chosen to work … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman, Work
Tagged precarity, sociology of work, working-class students
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First-Gen or Working-Class?
Working-class studies scholars often complain about how some researchers use a single aspect of people’s lives – most often education — to determine their social class. Anytime we define class in one way, we oversimplify it and miss important insights … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Sherry Linkon
Tagged first-generation students, working-class students
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We Need a Working-Class Ranking System
Lists that rank U.S. colleges are everywhere these days. You can find images of the “most beautiful” or “safest” campuses on Facebook. Every major news magazine seems to have its own rankings system. All of this started with US News … Continue reading
Food Insecurity and the Costs of College
Today, more than 500 colleges and universities belong to the College and University Food Bank Alliance (CUFBA). When I spoke at the annual Food Pantry Conference, hosted by U-Michigan-Dearborn this year, I met an amazing group of people from a … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Guest Bloggers, Issues
Tagged college costs, Food Insecurity, working-class students
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Miseducation and the Working Class
A couple of weeks ago my daughter passed the ‘Kent Test’, the exam ten year olds in my area sit in order to stream them for their secondary education. In our town, the options are stark. Those who pass, like … Continue reading
Posted in Class and Education, Contributors, Issues, Tim Strangleman
Tagged income inequality, public school, testing, working-class students
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Budgets and Values: How Republican Cuts to College Loan Forgiveness Will Harm the Working-Class
This summer, a Pew Research report attracted significant attention in media, policy, and academic circles because it revealed that for the first time, a majority of conservative Republicans believe college is hurting our country. The report reflects a political climate … Continue reading
For-Profit Colleges: Rough Times Ahead for Working-Class Students
With the promoter of the now disgraced “Trump University” at the helm of the federal government for the next 4 years, we are likely to see for-profit companies playing a bigger role in higher education. But history shows us that … Continue reading
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