The Many Tiers of Academia


	The Many Tiers of Academia

dmegivern

11-13-2007 4:59 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/211b4e19-a529-4414-88da-76d91cbed6b6/60D895F3-B992-439E-99D5-E594F99D11D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm" href="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.aaup.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm"><H1>Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm"><SPAN id="_ctl0_MainContent_phDeck">How do working-class students end up at working-class colleges and universities? An inside account of the California state system unearths the class structure of higher education</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm"><SPAN id="_ctl0_MainContent_phAuthor">By Renny Christopher </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/JA/Feat/chri.htm"><P>Note that I said I was "effectively educated" in elite schools, not "well educated." I chose my terms carefully, because part of my education included learning contempt for my family and the culture I came from, eradicating the dialect I grew up speaking, and learning values of hierarchy, ambition, individualism, and intellectual snobbery—what many would call "pride in intellectual achievement." I now characterize the years I spent working to unlearn my precollege self as my miseducation. But this miseducation came interlaced with useful skills-skills of rhetoric, of analysis—that my own students at the state university are not gaining.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/60D895F3-B992-439E-99D5-E594F99D11D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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