The experiences of First Generation and Low Income Students at Elite Universities

主讲人：Shamus Khan, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

时间：2021-11-19 9：00am-10:30am

会议方式： ZOOM会议号：952 7226 6465；密码：759353

链接: https://zoom.us/j/95272266465?pwd=MjBpYWRlaENWTCs0TGk3T2hGNVQzdz09

Abstract:

In the United States, completing college is a major step on the pathway to social mobility. Yet students who are the first in their family to go to college and who are low income encounter a range of challenges after they are accepted into college. This talk outlines some of what we know about why this is the case, particularly in elite educational environments. It also draws upon an analysis of data from a population-based survey (N=1671 undergraduates) at two interconnected highly-selective institutions of higher education (conducted with several other authors, including Philip Kreniske and Claude A. Mellins), to examine the belonging, mental health, and well-being of first generation and low income students in comparison with their college peers. This analysis provides greater specificity on the particular challenges of these students and outlines some suggestions for moderating these challenging effects.

Biography:

Shamus Khan is professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton University. He writes on culture, inequality, gender, and elites. He is the author of over 100 articles, books, and essays, including Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton), The Practice of Research (Oxford, with Dana Fisher), Approaches to Ethnography: Modes of Representation and Analysis in Participant Observation (Oxford, with Colin Jerolmack), and Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (W.W. Norton, with Jennifer Hirsch), which was named a best book of 2020 by NPR. He was a co-principal investigator of SHIFT, a multi-year study of sexual health and sexual violence at Columbia University. He directed the working group on the political influence of economic elites at the Russell Sage Foundation, is the series editor of “The Middle Range” at Columbia University Press, and served as the editor of the journal Public Culture.

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