The True Costs of College

Kendall, Nancy; Goerisch, Denise; Kim, Esther C.; Vernon, Franklin; Wolfgram, Matthew

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“…But, as the stories below elucidate, this upwardly mobile student persona is a majoritarian ideal that carries significant costs, many of which are hidden or poorly communicated to students and their families, not accounted for by the calculus of financial aid, and far beyond the ability of students from low-income families to pay (Kendall et al, 2020).…”

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“…Grant Foundation and Lumina Foundation. Details about the comparative ethnography may be found in Kendall et al (2020). Though the particularities of BU and its student body are essential to our analysis, the intersectionally shaped impacts of college‐going on low‐income students were in many regards similar across the other campuses included in the larger study (Kendall et al, 2020).…”

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“Piling on the stress”: Low‐income students' experiences in a neoliberal majoritarian university

Wolfgram¹,

Kendall²

2023

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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The United States is experiencing state disinvestment from higher education and significant wealth inequality. This article documents how low‐income college students both experience and attempt to manage these contexts in their daily lives at a public flagship university in the American Midwest. We theorize these experiences as forms of precarity entailed by a culture and institutional form that we describe as the neoliberal majoritarian university (NMU). We argue that the concepts of precarity and of NMU provide a more robust framework for conceptualizing the consequences of college‐going for low‐income students than do conventional discourses of social mobility, college affordability, or student stress.

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“Piling on the stress”: Low‐income students' experiences in a neoliberal majoritarian university

Wolfgram¹,

Kendall²

2023

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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“…This idea of personal responsibility appears frequently in the story of poor students in college. Recent moves to decrease the public funding of colleges shifts costs onto students (Kendall et al, 2020) who are then responsible for taking on those costs and ensuring they make the right choices for them to pay off. The personal sacrifices which poor students make are justified if they achieve individual economic success.…”

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The ethical costs of using higher education for economic mobility

Webster

2022

Theory and Research in Education

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A great deal of recent scholarship on economically disadvantaged students and higher education works under the foundational assumption that going to college can and/or should serve the goal of economic mobility. This article considers a cost of using higher education for this purpose – specifically, the impact on the decision-making of poor students. I argue that the narrative of higher education for economic mobility places poor students in a problematically restrictive normative framework as compared with their wealthier peers in which decisions involving the pursuit of future economic goods change from matters of preference into ethical dilemmas. In turn, poor students are forced into a narrow cost–benefit, consequentialist mode of decision-making. This is especially problematic because higher education for many students is a transformative experience – a type of experience which is particularly unsuited to consequentialist reasoning. The solution involves reframing the way in which we think about decision-making in higher education, which is at least partially contingent on increasing social supports to shift the burdens of poverty off individual students.

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“…In this increasingly challenging economic environment, many countries have reduced public spending on higher education (Jacob & Gokbel, 2018). Universities face budget cuts and shift costs onto students by raising tuition fees and other costs related to academic programmes (Kendall et al, 2020). The dramatic increase and expensive tuition fees pressure students financially (Llorente et al, 2015).…”

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“…The dramatic increase and expensive tuition fees pressure students financially (Llorente et al, 2015). Students are required to obtain additional loans or taking on additional work to overcome the financial burden (Kendall et al, 2020). This is also the case for Malaysia (Mohd Fuad, 2019).…”

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Analysing Educational Campaign’s Outcome in Donation-Based Crowdfunding: Social Capital as a Determinant Factor

Sabarudin

Alma’amun

Ahmad

2021

IJBS

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A new financing alternative, known as crowdfunding, has expanded rapidly. Not all crowdfunding projects or campaigns can successfully reach the desired funding amount. Many studies have shown that social capital is a determinant of crowdfunding success, and some of it could be applied to the education domain. This study investigates the influence of the multidimensional social capital on the donation-based crowdfunding within the scope of educational campaigns belonging to higher education institutions students. This study uses the primary data extracted from the Skolafund crowdfunding site, a specialised third-party platform for higher education. This study, using the theory of multidimensional social capital as the theoretical foundation, develops a logit model linking all three social capital dimensions. The findings imply that only two social capital dimensions, namely structural and relational, are significant factors influencing the crowdfunding success likelihood. This study also finds that campaigns with lower funding targets are more likely to succeed. The practical implications of this study suggest the students should leverage their social capital to increase the fundraising amount. Higher education institutions also should consider to set up their crowdfunding platforms quickly or encourage students to utilise a third-party platform, such as Skolafund.

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The True Costs of College

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“Piling on the stress”: Low‐income students' experiences in a neoliberal majoritarian university

“Piling on the stress”: Low‐income students' experiences in a neoliberal majoritarian university

The ethical costs of using higher education for economic mobility

Analysing Educational Campaign’s Outcome in Donation-Based Crowdfunding: Social Capital as a Determinant Factor

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