Title: Meanings of Mobility: Family, Education, and Immigration in the Lives of Latino Youth
Author: Leah Schmatzbauer
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN-13: 9781610449212
Over the past twenty years, elite colleges and universities enacted policies that reshaped the racial and class composition of their campuses, and over the past decade, Latinos’ college attendance notably increased. While discussions on educational mobility often focus on its perceived benefits – that it will ultimately lead to social and economic mobility – less attention is paid to the process of “making it” and the challenges low-income youth experience when navigating these elite spaces. In Meanings of Mobility, sociologist Leah C. Schmalzbauer explores the experiences of low-income Latino youth attending highly selective, elite colleges.
Title: Grit and Hope: A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College
Author: Barbara Davenport
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 9780520284456
This volume tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country’s worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that helps them become the first in their families to go college. They must keep up their grades in AP courses, write compelling essays for their applications, and find scholarships to fund their dreams. Told with deep affection, the stories show that although poverty and cultural deprivation seriously complicate youths’ efforts to launch into young adulthood, the support of a strong program makes a critical difference.
Title: Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
Author: William Perez
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN-13: 9780807752838
Americans by Heart examines the plight of undocumented Latino students as they navigate the educational and legal tightrope presented by their immigration status. Many of these students are accepted to attend some of our best colleges and universities but cannot afford the tuition to do so because they are not eligible for financial aid or employment. For the few that defy the odds and manage to graduate, their status continues to present insurmountable barriers to employment. The author presents a new framework for educational policies that recognizes the merit and potential of undocumented Latino students.
Title: Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility
Authors: Robert Courtney Smith and Manuel Castro
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN-13: 9780871549419
For over twenty years, Smith followed the lives of nearly one hundred children of Mexican immigrants in New York City. Smith’s longitudinal, ethnographic data enabled him to describe how specific mechanisms blocked or promoted mobility for years as his participants moved from adolescence through early adulthood and into established adulthood. Smith documents how having or gaining legal status made certain New York City or New York State policies and practices more efficacious in supporting individual and family efforts and strategies for mobility. Smith finds that keeping the immigrant bargain helped them towards better adult outcomes and lives.
Title: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Author: Sara Goldrick-Rab
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226527147
Drawing on an unprecedented study of 3,000 young adults who entered public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, while less than 20 percent finished within five years. The cause of their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Goldrick-Rab offers a range of possible solutions, from technical improvements to the financial aid application process, to a bold, public sector–focused “first degree free” program.
Title: Hidden Tuition, An Insider´s Guide to College Pricing and Financial Aid
Author: Phillip B. Levine
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226841533
Hidden Tuition is an insider’s guide for navigating college financial aid to maximum effect and with (relatively) minimal pain. Economist and financial-aid expert Phillip B. Levine draws on his unique experience—including years of research in higher-education finance and work alongside admissions and financial-aid departments—to help readers first identify, then minimize, what they’ll actually pay for different types of colleges based on their circumstances. Hidden Tuition makes a maddeningly imperfect process more manageable—and gives students a clearer path through one of life’s biggest financial decisions towards collegiate success.
Title: Mission and Margin, A Practical Guide to University Finances
Authors: Daniel Diermeier and Brett C. Sweet
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226844145
A fundamental understanding of financial management is more essential than ever for university leaders at every level—as is a true partnership between academic leaders and their CFOs. In Margin and Mission, Daniel Diermeier and Brett Sweet distill the principles for successful financial management in higher education, based on their work together at Vanderbilt University. Their concise, practical guide develops the reader’s understanding with the help of real-world examples. Margin and Mission aims to give university leaders the knowledge to make sound economic decisions that preserve their institutions’ purpose—even in the face of uncertainty.
Title: Financing Institutions of Higher Education
Editors: John Y. Campbell and Kaye Husbands Fealing
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226844817
The US higher education sector faces economic challenges, including a stagnating number of college-age domestic students, geographic mismatches between population growth and college locations, cutbacks in government support, growing student debt burdens, sticker prices that deter prospective applicants, and the risk of low returns on endowment portfolios. This volume analyzes the responses of students, families, and financial managers at higher education institutions to these challenges. It offers insights into disparities in the financial structures and challenges of different types of institutions. It draws together contributions from financial economics, public finance, industrial organization, and the economics of education.
