College and the working class : what it takes to make it / edited by Allison L. Hurst.

By:

Hurst, Allison L, 1969-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789460917523
9460917526
946091750X
9789460917509
9460917518
9789460917516
9786613709622
661370962X
1280799234
9781280799235

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:

370.973 23

LOC classification:

LC191.4 .H87 2012

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction and Methods -- College and the Working Class -- An Overview -- Should I Stay or Should I Go? -- Border Country -- On and Off Campus -- You Can't Go Home Again -- Post Grad -- Conclusion.

Summary: What are the meanings, experiences, and impact of college for working-class people? The author of this book addresses the two questions, what is college like for working-class students, and what is college for the working class? In The Other Three Percent, the author draws on a wealth of previous research to tell the stories of five very different working-class college students as they apply to, enter, successfully navigate, and complete college. Through these stories readers will learn about the obstacles working-class students face and overcome, the costs and effectiveness of higher education as a mechanism of social mobility, and the problems caused on our college campuses by our reticence to meaningfully confront the class divide. Readers will be invited to compare their own experiences of higher education with those of the students here described, and to evaluate their own institutions' openness towards working-class students through a series of checklists provided in the book's conclusion. Allison L. Hurst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a member of the Association of Working-Class Academics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and Methods -- College and the Working Class -- An Overview -- Should I Stay or Should I Go? -- Border Country -- On and Off Campus -- You Can't Go Home Again -- Post Grad -- Conclusion.

What are the meanings, experiences, and impact of college for working-class people? The author of this book addresses the two questions, what is college like for working-class students, and what is college for the working class? In The Other Three Percent, the author draws on a wealth of previous research to tell the stories of five very different working-class college students as they apply to, enter, successfully navigate, and complete college. Through these stories readers will learn about the obstacles working-class students face and overcome, the costs and effectiveness of higher education as a mechanism of social mobility, and the problems caused on our college campuses by our reticence to meaningfully confront the class divide. Readers will be invited to compare their own experiences of higher education with those of the students here described, and to evaluate their own institutions' openness towards working-class students through a series of checklists provided in the book's conclusion. Allison L. Hurst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a member of the Association of Working-Class Academics.

English.

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