Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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How Capital Shapes Higher Education
To understand how social class shapes higher education, we need to understand the material and symbolic dimensions of social class. To paint a fuller picture, i had to understand how money shapes campas life. And the ample that i what i show in the book, and i want the high ligt is actual food and security. I study elet schools with multi billion dollar endowments. I study schools that give full financial aid to lower income students. Only one in five kept their dining halls open during spring break. Some schools actually charge students a daily rate to stay in their room and to eat on canvas. A student who can't afford to leave campus now has to yto stay in their
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