The United States is experiencing state disinvestment from higher education and significant wealth inequality. This article documents how low-income college students both experience and attempt to manage these contexts in their daily lives at a public flagship university in the American Midwest. We theorize these experiences as forms of precarity entailed by a culture and institutional form that we describe as the neoliberal majoritarian university (NMU). We argue that the concepts of precarity and of NMU provide a more robust framework for conceptualizing the consequences of college-going for low-income students than do conventional discourses of social mobility, college affordability, or student stress.

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“压力堆积”：低收入学生在新自由主义多数主义大学的经历

美国正在经历国家对高等教育的投资减少和严重的财富不平等。本文记录了低收入大学生如何在美国中西部的一所公立旗舰大学的日常生活中经历并尝试管理这些环境。我们将这些经历理论化为一种不稳定的形式，这种不稳定是由我们称之为新自由主义多数主义大学（NMU）的文化和制度形式所带来的。我们认为，与社会流动性、大学负担能力或学生压力的传统论述相比，不稳定和 NMU 的概念为概念化低收入学生上大学的后果提供了更强有力的框架。