Crossing the Class Divide: Institutional Climate for Social Class Diversity and Student Social Class Identity Awareness

• In Event: College and Social Class Diversity

Abstract

This paper examines students’ experiences of interacting with socioeconomic diversity on campus. Placing the conversation of social class within the campus climate literature in higher education, the authors examine climate around social class through in-depth interviews with 31 diverse students at a public, research institution.

Authors

• Jessica Buckley, University of Louisville

• Julie J. Park, University of Maryland, College Park