Success at college is often accompanied by a painful sense of separation from family, friends and community

Social arts trample liberal arts

The divisive country-club culture at ‘Midwest University’ that places status above study and raises partying to a vocation

By Matthew Reisz

9 May

Felicity Huffman leaves the federal courthouse after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme

The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough

Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education

By Deborah D. Rogers

14 November

The ‘privileged poor’: universities are far from all inclusive

Anthony Abraham Jack’s new book distinguishes two kinds of under-represented students and sets out what universities need to do if they truly want to recruit the most disadvantaged students. Matthew Reisz writes

By Matthew Reisz

21 March

From access to genuine inclusion on US campuses

Matthew Reisz considers the work of researchers who have shed light on the ‘invisibility’ of social class in US universities

By Matthew Reisz

21 March

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#1 Submitted by Alan D White on December 19, 2019 - 3:23pm

The best way of making her backward -looking parents understand they are out of date social- justice-wise is to make them listen to a harangue from a few scary social warriors. Quite effective if not very convincing...

Success at college is often accompanied by a painful sense of separation from family, friends and community

Universities need to acknowledge, and try to mitigate, the losses experienced by many upwardly mobile students, argues Jennifer M. Morton

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Success at college is often accompanied by a painful sense of separation from family, friends and community

Universities need to acknowledge, and try to mitigate, the losses experienced by many upwardly mobile students, argues Jennifer M. Morton

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Social arts trample liberal arts

The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough

The ‘privileged poor’: universities are far from all inclusive

From access to genuine inclusion on US campuses

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