The story of college success in the US often conflates distance with quality and separation from family and community as a rite of passage. But when Corinne Kentor, the runner up in our 2022 Grad Student Research Contest, began looking at how students who’ve grown up in families with mixed immigration status view higher education, she saw something very different: an understanding of college as a collective project. Her research raises big questions about how we view college and “success” in a time of deepening education polarization.

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