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When higher education creates cultural displacement

My parents never went to college and I am the first in my family but being here makes me feel like I am abandoning everything I came from.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational advancement has created distance from their roots, generating grief about belonging and questions about the cost of social mobility.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Higher education and its purpose?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.