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Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education, by Ann L. Mullen. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 264 pages. $50.00 Hardcover.
Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education, by Jenny M. Stuber. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 208 pages. $60.00 Cloth; Also available as electronic book.
The belief that higher education is key to achieving the American dream has long motivated students, energized faculty, and mobilized policymakers. In the US (and elsewhere), the prospect of a better-educated population, one that is more capable of competing in the new knowledge-based economy, has promised a better future not only for individuals but for the nation. Indeed, many have also hoped that broader college participation would help level the social playing field and restore the sagging fortunes of the shrinking middle class.
Mary Taylor Huber is senior scholar emerita and consulting scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has written extensively about changing faculty cultures in US higher education, focusing especially on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is co-author, most recently, of The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005) and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact (2011).
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