Archive:Higher education
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WCP: Class(room) Warfare
While the college admissions scandal has drawn plenty of media attention in recent weeks, few were truly surprised to learn that wealthy parents were using their money and influence to help their children get into elite colleges. In this week’s Working Class Perspectives, Kathy M. Newman analyzes the real surprise among the coverage: mainstream news commentary’s emphasis on class. Newman argues that this reporting reflects a broader shift toward greater attention to class and inequality in American culture.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Working-Class Precarity: An Education
Students’ experiences can be valuable resources in the classroom, especially when we’re teaching about work and class. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Tim Strangleman reflects on what happened when he asked his students to bring in videos about precarious work.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: We Need a Working-Class Ranking System
College rankings such as the ones produced by U.S. News play an outsized roll in the college selection process, yet these lists mainly reward elite schools and neglect the interests of working-class families. In Working-Class Perspectives, Allison L. Hurst builds the case for an alternative model, one that weighs information like college affordability and the support given the first-generation college students.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Low Cotton: A Class on Class
Students will only understand class politics and working-class culture if it is part of their college curriculum. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Helen Diana Eidson describes how she creatively engaged her students at the University of Alabama on the issue of class through the history of Alabama cotton sharecroppers.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Spring into a Semester of Social Justice
With hundreds of courses offered each semester, it can hard to identify classes and professors that center issues of worker rights and social justice. We compiled this list to make that a bit easier
Category: Labor Studies
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WCP: Food Insecurity and the Costs of College
Higher education has become so inaccessible to working-class students that there are over 500 campus food pantries in the United States. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Allison L. Hurst de
Category: Visiting Scholars
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Features KI Scholars Who Study the Working Class
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently featured our Visiting Scholar John Russo and faculty affiliate Sherry Linkon and their efforts to unravel the mysteries of the American working class. The
Categories: In the News, Labor Studies, Our Staff, People, Visiting Scholars
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WCP: For-Profit Colleges: Rough Times Ahead for Working-Class Students
For-profit colleges promise a quality education and job training, but often fail working-class students and leave them struggling to stay afloat. The past decade has seen a number of measures introd
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Now Is the Time: Working-Class Studies in the Trump Era
After endless analyses and commentaries on the factors that propelled Donald Trump to the Presidency, it is time to prepare for the road ahead. In this week's post, Sherry Linkon provides a blueprin
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Shakespeare and Working-Class Students: The Value of Irrelevance
Many first-generation students attend college to get out of the "working class" both economically and culturally. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Tim Francisco warns that prioritizing job
Category: Visiting Scholars