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 …

Getting in is only half the battle. The struggles of less privileged students continue long after
they've arrived on campus. Anthony Jack reveals how—and why—admission to elite schools …

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 …

This book stems from my long-standing interest in elites. I collected the data while a PhD
student at Harvard University. I am deeply grateful to a variety of individuals for supporting …

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education,
about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student …

We did not realize it at the time, but we were observing a new cohort of students being swept
up onto the party pathway that defines a swath of undergraduate social life at this university …

Income inequality in educational attainment is a long-standing concern, and disparities in
college completion have grown over time. Need-based financial aid is commonly used to …

How do undergraduates engage authority figures in college? Existing explanations predict
class-based engagement strategies. Using in-depth interviews with 89 undergraduates at an …

College Belonging reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of
belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the …