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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299522503321

Autore

Landers Kerry H

Titolo

Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League : Navigating Policy and Practice / / by Kerry H. Landers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319634562

3319634569

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 257 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

306.43

Soggetti

Educational sociology

Education, Higher

Sociology of Education

Higher Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. How Low-Income Students Became Invisible at Elite Colleges -- 2. How Alex Got to Dartmouth and Obstacles that Prevent Other Low-Income Students from Attending Elite Schools -- 3. Home Environment to Culture Shock -- 4. Passing -- 5. The Unmoneyed Experience -- 6. Hidden Rules -- 7. Dis-“Orientation” -- 8. True Grit -- 9. Relationships That Matter -- 10. Great Expectations -- 11. Beyond the Ivory Tower -- 12. Low-Income Students Speak Out on Elite Campuses -- 13. Challenging Our Elite Schools to do Better. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. In the past, research conducted on low-income students in elite schools focused mainly on the admissions process. As a result, there is a dearth of research on what happens to low-income students once they are admitted and attend classes. This book chronicles an ethnographic study of twenty low-income men and women in their senior year at Dartmouth College and follows up with them four and twelve years post-graduation. By helping to bring



visibility and self-awareness to low-income students and expose class issues and struggles, the author hopes to encourage elite institutions to change their policies and practices to address the needs of these students. .