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Summary:

One of the most significant achievements in U.S. higher education during the latter half of the 20th century was the increasing access enjoyed by historically marginalized populations, including women, people of color, and the poor and working class. With this achievement has come a growing population of first-generation graduate students and faculty members, who struggle at times to navigate unfamiliar territory. Today, these individuals and institutions are faced with profound challenges in adapting to shifts within a social environment increasingly hostile to education. The growing diversity in higher education has left it open to attacks by those who wish to maintain systems of privilege and inequality. This book offers insight on the challenges of first-generation academics, as well as practical tools for navigating the halls of the academy for individuals and institutional allies alike.--COVER.

Table of Contents:

• Changer in paradise : escaping marginality and shaping academic labor / Vincent Seravallo
• Educational experiences of faculty from working-class backgrounds / Jim Vander Putten
• Culture clash : a working-class academic at a liberal arts college / Michelle M. Tokarczyk
• Working-class academics at work : perceptions of and experiences within the academy / Meghan J. Pifer and Karley A. Riffe
• First in line : the experience of first-generation, working-class graduate students / Kathleen Mullins
• Narrating, understanding, and reflecting on the experiences of working-class graduate students in rhetoric and composition programs / David Marquard
• Navigating positive and hostile department climates : experiences of Latino/a doctoral students / Elvia Ramirez
• Working-class graduate students and the neoliberalization of higher education : a collective autoethnography / Aaron Hoy, Marcus Bell, Selene Cammer-Bechtold, and Mauricio Torres
• The leaky pipeline and the lost youth : why low-income students don't make it to graduate school / JanRose Ottaway Martin
• First-generation graduates : challenges in transitioning into employment / Malar Hirudayaraj
• From trailer park to ivory tower : preserving, protecting, and promoting the academic potential of disadvantaged students / Sarah Smith
• Surviving in the Land of Oz : harvesting academic capital for graduate school success / Saran Donahoo
• Still on the margins : programs aimed at opening up a conversation on the invisible issue of social class in doctoral programs / Rosanne Ecker
• The house that networking built : perspectives from a first-generation scholar / Taren Swindle.

Contributors:

Standlee, Alecea Ritter, 1979- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

First-generation college students — United States

Graduate students — United States

College teachers — United States

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher) — United States

Education, Higher — Social aspects — United States

College teaching — Social aspects — United States

First-generation college students

Graduate students

College teachers

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher)

People with social disabilities

Education, Higher — Social aspects

Education, Higher

College teaching — Social aspects

College teaching

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 296 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

LC4069.6 .O6 2018

ISBNs:

9780977784783
0977784789

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018016396

OCLC Numbers:

1032290827