No academic catalog is going to define an undergraduate class as a “weed-out” or “gatekeeper” course. But these courses can come to define individual career paths, pushing some students out of STEM ...
Dr. Calarco is a professor of sociology at Indiana University. She is the author of two books on social class and inequalities in schooling, “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures ...
Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn’t make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...