Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education

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Degrees of Inequality reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly each facet of the college experience.

Even as probably the most prestigious institutions claim to open their doors to students from diverse backgrounds, class disparities remain. Just two miles apart stand two institutions that represent the stark class contrast in American higher education. Yale, an elite Ivy League university, boasts accomplished alumni, including national and world leaders in business and politics. Southern Connecticut State University graduates mostly commuter students looking for credential degrees in fields with good job prospects.

Ann L. Mullen interviewed students from both universities and found that their college choices and experiences were strongly linked to social background and gender. Yale students, most having generations of members of the family with college degrees, are encouraged to approach their college years as a possibility for intellectual and personal enrichment. Southern students, on the other hand, perceive a college degree as a path to a better career, and plenty of work full- or part-time jobs to assist fund their education.

Moving interviews with 100 students on the two institutions highlight how American higher education reinforces the similar inequities it has been aiming to transcend.


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