Terina Roberson Lathe is professor of sociology at Central Piedmont Community College.

For the past 25 years, scholars have focused discussions of social class in higher education on the experiences of working-class academics and the needs of working-class students. The Working-Class Student in Higher Education offers an important shift in focus, examining how cultural assumptions about class shape the way faculty—especially the community college faculty who teach the majority of undergraduates from the working class—view and treat their students.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Framing a “Working-Class” DefinitionChapter 2: Framing a Working-Class Experience in EducationChapter 3: Working-Class Students as Understood by FacultyChapter 4: Working-Class Students as (mis)Understood by FacultyChapter 5: Lost in TranslationChapter 6: Going ForthReferencesAbout the Author

Terina Roberson Lathe is professor of sociology at Central Piedmont Community College.

For the past 25 years, scholars have focused discussions of social class in higher education on the experiences of working-class academics and the needs of working-class students. The Working-Class Student in Higher Education offers an important shift in focus, examining how cultural assumptions about class shape the way faculty—especially the community college faculty who teach the majority of undergraduates from the working class—view and treat their students.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Framing a “Working-Class” DefinitionChapter 2: Framing a Working-Class Experience in EducationChapter 3: Working-Class Students as Understood by FacultyChapter 4: Working-Class Students as (mis)Understood by FacultyChapter 5: Lost in TranslationChapter 6: Going ForthReferencesAbout the Author

Terina Roberson Lathe is professor of sociology at Central Piedmont Community College.

For the past 25 years, scholars have focused discussions of social class in higher education on the experiences of working-class academics and the needs of working-class students. The Working-Class Student in Higher Education offers an important shift in focus, examining how cultural assumptions about class shape the way faculty—especially the community college faculty who teach the majority of undergraduates from the working class—view and treat their students.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Framing a “Working-Class” DefinitionChapter 2: Framing a Working-Class Experience in EducationChapter 3: Working-Class Students as Understood by FacultyChapter 4: Working-Class Students as (mis)Understood by FacultyChapter 5: Lost in TranslationChapter 6: Going ForthReferencesAbout the Author