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Leaps of FaithStories from Working-Class Scholars\nAuthor(s): Anne C. Benoit, Joann S. Olson, Carrie Johnson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641134620, 978-1641134620\nSynopsis\nAs discourses and programming to support diversity and inclusion across higher education are intensifying, Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics presents a collection of narratives that highlights the on-the-ground experiences of working-class students and scholars. These are stories of negotiation, transition, and challenge. These are stories of struggle. These are stories of beating the odds.\n\nThe early works of Ryan and Sackrey [tel], Sennett and Cobb [tel], and Dews and Law [tel] raised the voices of working-class academics, and the subject of class in higher education has gained tractionespecially with the increasing focus on the enrollment and persistence of first-generation college students. This pr.