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Degrees of inequality : culture, class, and gender in American higher education / Ann L. Mullen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801899126
  • 0801899125
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Degrees of inequalityDDC classification:
  • 306.43/2 22
LOC classification:
  • LC67.62 .M58 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Yale and southern -- The high school years -- Deciding to go to college -- Choosing colleges -- Going to college -- Majors and knowledge.
Summary: This book reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Interviews with students from Yale and Southern Connecticut State University highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequalities it has been aiming to transcend. -- Book Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.

Yale and southern -- The high school years -- Deciding to go to college -- Choosing colleges -- Going to college -- Majors and knowledge.

This book reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Interviews with students from Yale and Southern Connecticut State University highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequalities it has been aiming to transcend. -- Book Jacket.

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