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  • Amplified Advantage

    Going to a “Good” College in an Era of Inequality

    by Allison L. Hurst ...
    Series series Social Class in Education
    Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today’s small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these colleges sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in equalizing the experience of all their students. But there is more to the book than that. Although primarily an account of life and learning at small ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Burden of Academic Success

    Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents

    by Allison L. Hurst ...
    The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Working in Class

    Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work

    by Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga ...
    More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students

    Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility

    by Jenny Stuber, Trista Beard, Kim Godsoe, Casandra E. Harper, Allison L. Hurst, Véronique Irwin, Anthony Abraham Jack, Judy Marquez Kiyama, Rory Kramer, Elizabeth M. Lee, Robin Minthorn0, Ann L. Mullen1, Delma Ramos2, Bedelia Nicola Richards3, Ashley C. Rondini5, Thomas Piñeros Shields7, Nicolas P. Simon8, Fanny Yeung0, Natalie Rose Youngbull1 ...
    Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into institutions of higher education. The chapters offer timely, empirical examinations of the ways that these students negotiate experiences ... Read more

    $44.59 USD