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Social class remains the largest divide and source of inequality within higher education. Whether in terms of enrollment, selectivity, or graduation rates, profound class differences exist. Using qualitative data based on interviews and drawn from ethnographic observation, Elizabeth M. Lee explores the inequalities that exist within the campus community at an elite women's college, suggesting that class tensions have deleterious consequences on lower-income students and potentially undermine the mission of elite education. Lee's work is noteworthy for her careful and nuanced approach to the lived experience of social class in this unique setting. -Jenny M. Stuber, University of North Florida, author of Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education The social, emotional, and moral dimensions of the difficulties of first-generation and low-income college students are usually ignored, as if the only obstacles were financial and academic. The fact that such students face classism and social obstacles at elite college has rarely been illuminated as well as it is in Class and Campus Life. The quality of Elizabeth M. Lee's fieldwork is stellar; the students whose stories are vividly presented in this book really trusted her, and the reader can tell that she reflects their sentiments accurately. The longitudinal aspect, reinterviewing informants several years after graduation, is especially impressive. College administrators who take Lee's findings to heart would find many ways to improve their institutional support of first-generation and low-income students. -Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures Class and Campus Life by Elizabeth M. Lee is a highly readable, very engaging exploration of an important but often neglected topic: the experiences of low-income, working-class students in elite academic settings. This cost of mobility is well articulated in Lee's book, which should be essential reading for sociologists studying classed experiences and education scholars interested in the mechanisms of attending elite colleges. Methodologists will enjoy the use of diverse methodological approaches. The book should also be on the required reading list of administrators in higher education who are concerned about issues of diversity on campus. -Wolfgang Lehmann, author of Choosing to Labour? School-Work Transitions and Social Class

""Social class remains the largest divide and source of inequality within higher education. Whether in terms of enrollment, selectivity, or graduation rates, profound class differences exist. Using qualitative data based on interviews and drawn from ethnographic observation, Elizabeth M. Lee explores the inequalities that exist within the campus community at an elite women's college, suggesting that class tensions have deleterious consequences on lower-income students and potentially undermine the mission of elite education. Lee's work is noteworthy for her careful and nuanced approach to the lived experience of social class in this unique setting.""-Jenny M. Stuber, University of North Florida, author of Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education ""The social, emotional, and moral dimensions of the difficulties of first-generation and low-income college students are usually ignored, as if the only obstacles were financial and academic. The fact that such students face classism and social obstacles at elite college has rarely been illuminated as well as it is in Class and Campus Life. The quality of Elizabeth M. Lee's fieldwork is stellar; the students whose stories are vividly presented in this book really trusted her, and the reader can tell that she reflects their sentiments accurately. The longitudinal aspect, reinterviewing informants several years after graduation, is especially impressive. College administrators who take Lee's findings to heart would find many ways to improve their institutional support of first-generation and low-income students.""-Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures ""Class and Campus Life by Elizabeth M. Lee is a highly readable, very engaging exploration of an important but often neglected topic: the experiences of low-income, working-class students in elite academic settings. This cost of mobility is well articulated in Lee's book, which should be essential reading for sociologists studying classed experiences and education scholars interested in the mechanisms of attending elite colleges. Methodologists will enjoy the use of diverse methodological approaches. The book should also be on the required reading list of administrators in higher education who are concerned about issues of diversity on campus.""-Wolfgang Lehmann, author of Choosing to Labour? School-Work Transitions and Social Class

Social class remains the largest divide and source of inequality within higher education. Whether in terms of enrollment, selectivity, or graduation rates, profound class differences exist. Using qualitative data based on interviews and drawn from ethnographic observation, Elizabeth M. Lee explores the inequalities that exist within the campus community at an elite women's college, suggesting that class tensions have deleterious consequences on lower-income students and potentially undermine the mission of elite education. Lee's work is noteworthy for her careful and nuanced approach to the lived experience of social class in this unique setting. -Jenny M. Stuber, University of North Florida, author of Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education The social, emotional, and moral dimensions of the difficulties of first-generation and low-income college students are usually ignored, as if the only obstacles were financial and academic. The fact that such students face classism and social obstacles at elite college has rarely been illuminated as well as it is in Class and Campus Life. The quality of Elizabeth M. Lee's fieldwork is stellar; the students whose stories are vividly presented in this book really trusted her, and the reader can tell that she reflects their sentiments accurately. The longitudinal aspect, reinterviewing informants several years after graduation, is especially impressive. College administrators who take Lee's findings to heart would find many ways to improve their institutional support of first-generation and low-income students. -Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

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Elizabeth M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. She is coeditor of College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality: Sharing Spaces and Negotiating Differences.

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