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Saul, Stephanie. 2025. “With Black Enrollment Down, Amherst College Faces an Identity Crisis.” New York Times. April 25.
Burns, Hilary and Neena Hagen. 2024. “Black First-Year Enrollment Declines Sharply at Top Massachusetts Colleges Post-Affirmative Action.” The Boston Globe, September 26.
Rosenberg, John. 2024. “Harvard Haves and Have-Nots.” Harvard Magazine, September 23.
Burns, Hilary. 2024. “BU Professor Explores Inequality on College Campuses In New Book About Harvard.” The Boston Globe, September 22.
Weissman, Sara. 2024. “Bursting the Idea of the ‘Campus Bubble’.” Inside Higher Education, August 14.
Gill, John. 2024. “Disaggregating DEI.” Time Higher Education. August 1.
Gill, John. 2024. “What Now for DEI in the US?.” Boston Globe. August 1.
Damiano, Mike and Hilary Burns. 2024. “Amid Rising Tuition and Inflationary Pressures, A New College Run by BC Opens Its Doors to Low-income Students.” The Boston Globe, July 5.
Savage, Niara. 2024. “Applicants Navigating Uncertainty During FAFSA Delays as Colleges Turn Back to SAT/ACT Scores After Affirmative Action Ban.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, May 10.
Kyaw, Arrman. 2024. “Police Crackdown on Nationwide Protests.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, April 25.
Tandanpolie, Tatyana. 2024. “Florida Colleges Fire Staff Amid Anti-”Woke” Crusade. Expert Warns “This Tactic Will Backfire”.” Salon, March 9.
Kyaw, Arrman. 2024. “Higher Ed Voices Outrage After Harvard President Resigns.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, January 4.
Cadava, Geraldo. 2023. “A First-Generation Tale of Strife and Success.” The New Yorker, October 3.
Carapezza, Kirk, and Marcus, Jon. 2023. “The Newest Benefit at Top Companies: Private College Admissions Counseling.” GBH, September 5.
Burns, Hilary. 2023. “From Athletes to Clarinetists: Who Gets Preferential Treatment in Top College Admissions?.” Boston Globe. July 9.
Khan, Shamus. 2023. “Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do.” New York Times. July 7.
Lorin, Janet. 2023. “Defiant Harvard Hunts New Model to Keep Diversity After Defeat.” Bloomberg. June 30.
Cherry, Robert. 2023. “Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System.” New York Times. June 26.
Harmon, Amy. 2023. “How It Feels to Have Your Life Changed By Affirmative Action.” New York Times. June 21.
Cornwall, Gail. 2023. “California Helps College Students Cut Their Debt by Paying Them to Help Their Communities.” USA Today, April 5.
Saul, Stephanie. 2023. “If Affirmative Action Ends, College Admissions May Be Changed Forever.” New York Times. January 15.
Carapezza, Kirk. 2023. “‘Architect’ of Varsity Blues Scam Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison.” GBH News. January 3.
Rim, Christopher. 2022. “The Supreme Court May Change The Landscape Of Ivy League Feeder Schools.” Forbes. November 15.
Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2022. “America Turned the Greatest Vehicle of Social Mobility Into a Debt Machine.” New York Times. May 21.
Aviv, Rachel. 2022. “How an Ivy League School Turned Against a Student?” The New Yorker. March 22.
Douglas-Gabriel, Danielle. 2022. “College Endowments Aren’t Piggy Banks. But Some Experts Say Wealthy Schools Could Spend More.” Washington Post. February 19.
Blumenstyk, Goldie. 2022. “Centering First-Gen Voices.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 12.
KalaLea. 2021. “Is the Gift of Tuition Enough?” The New Yorker Radio Hour. December 17.
Ezarik, Melissa. 2021. “Students Need Mentors, and More Help in Making Those Connections.” Inside Higher Ed. October 28.
Kim, Joshua. 2021. “Elite Education and ‘The Privileged Poor’.” Inside Higher Ed. October 12.
Paz, Isabella Grullón. 2021. Pandemic and Racial Injustice Cause Outsize Harm to Black Students, Study Finds. The New York Times. July 27.
Flanagan, Caitlin. 2021. “Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene?” The Atlantic. March 26.
Caplan-Bricker, Nora. 2020. “What Do Colleges Owe Their Most Vulnerable Students?” The New Yorker. October 10.
Bachman, Matthew, Kathryn C. Dickerson, Shabnam Hakimi, Rosa Li, and Brenda Yang. 2020. “How We Formed a ‘Journal Club’ for Equity in Science.” Nature. October 1.
Field, Kelly. 2020. “10 Tips to Support Students in a Stressful Shift to Online Learning.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 30.
Redden, Elizabeth. 2020. “Go Home? For Some Students It’s Not Easy.” Inside Higher Ed. March 12.
Fischer, Karin. 2020. “When Coronavirus Closes Colleges, Some Students Lose Hot Meals, Health Care, and a Place to Sleep.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 11.
Cunningham, Vinson. 2020. “Prep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s Schools.” The New Yorker. March 9.Berman, Jillian. 2019. “What does it mean to be a poor student on a rich college campus?" Market Watch, March 17.
Chattopadhyay, Piya. 2019. “A mirror on America': How the U.S. college admissions scam reveals pervasive inequality in society.” CBC Radio, March 13.
Guyette, Natalie . 2019. “Beyond Admissions: How Elite Colleges Drop The Ball For Disadvantaged Students.” Wisconsin Public Radio, March 13.
Borchers, Callum, Mitchell, Zoë. 2019. “What Does It Mean To Be A Poor Student On A Rich Campus?.” WBUR Boston Radio, March 7.
Nanworny, Elissa. 2019. “As Elite Campuses Diversify, A 'Bias Towards Privilege' Persists.” NPR, March 5.
Heffner, Alexander. 2019.“The Case for Economic Affirmative Action.” PBS Open Mind, March 4
Knight, Danielle. 2019. “What Happens To Low-Income Students In High-Priced Universities?” WAMU 1A, February 25.
Fadulu, Lolade. 2018. "Why Aren't College Students Using Career Services?" The Atlantic, January 20.
The Brookings Institution. 2018. “Increasing Opportunity and Harnessing Talent—What Works?” January 11
Sharpe, Rochelle. 2017. “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking.” The New York Times, November 3.
Carapezza, Kirk. 2017. On Campus Radio: Diversity, Now, WBUR September 21.
Thys, Fred. 2017. “Some Mass. Colleges Move To Cover Extra Costs Of A Degree For Poorer Students.” WBUR, July 3.
Hough, Lory. 2017. “Poor, but Privileged,” Harvard Ed. Magazine, May 20, Summer.
Bolotnikova, Marina N. 2016. “Aiding the ‘Doubly Disadvantaged,’” Harvard Magazine, September-October.
Anderson, Nick. 2016. “For the Poor in the Ivy League, a Full Ride Isn’t Always What They Imagined.” Washington Post, May 16.
Hudson, Alexandra. 2016. “Why Good Manners Matter: They Help Disadvantaged Kids Climb Ladder Success.” National Review, April 27.
Mineo, Liz. 2016. “Toward a Path Less Riddled.” Harvard Gazette, April 21.
Miller, Kerri. 2016. “How Colleges Fail Poor Students.” MPR News, January 18.
Zaitseva, Lusia. 2015. “Taking Nothing for Granted: How One GSAS Student Challenges Assumptions about the Undergraduate Experience.” The GSAS Bulletin, October 1.
Schumaker, Erin. 2015. “The Heartbreaking Physical Toll Of High Achievement Among Disadvantaged Teens.” The Huffington Post, July 20.
Pekow, Suzanne. 2015. “The First Gen Movement.” American RadioWorks, April 22.
Foster, Brooke Leah. 2015. “What Is It like to Be Poor at an Ivy League School?.” The Boston Globe, April 9.
Pappano, Laura. 2015. “First-Generation Students Unite.” The New York Times, April 8.
Harper, Shaun R. 2012. “Black Male Student Success in Higher Education: A Report from the National Black Male College Achievement Study.” Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education.
Foster, Kathryn W. 2008. “College Out of Reach? Think Again.” The Miami Herald, May 23.
Kahlenberg, Richard. 2007. “Barack Obama, Tony Jack, and Affirmative Action.” The Century Foundation, May 29.
Rimer, Sara. 2007. “Elite Colleges Open New Door to Low-Income Youths.” The New York Times, May 27.
Simpson, April. 2007. “Unlearning Preconceptions: Program Offers Joint Classes to College Students, Inmates.” The Boston Globe, May 17