Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

The dilemmas faced by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourish

Upward mobility through higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, little attention has been paid to the personal compromises such students make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the...