About the Project

The Class Privilege Project is a collaborative effort by an independent team of counselor educators and doctoral students in counseling who are interested in exploring how class privilege and classism manifest within graduate programs in counseling.  Our team came together in 2018 following a discussion on the CESNET-L listserv focused on how graduate students in counseling were experiencing obstacles to success based on classist assumptions and policies embedded in counseling training programs.  Our discussion launched two separate, but related, research arms.  Our qualitative team is focused on collecting data from master's and doctoral students on their lived experiences with class privilege and classism.  Our quantitative team is focused on collecting data from students which would allow us to understand more about their past and present socioeconomic class, as well as the challenges they are currently experiencing in their training programs related to social and economic class.  The quantitative team also seeks to collect data from training programs about the overall cost of their degrees, the financial support they offer to students, and the policies within their programs which may inadvertently favor those with greater economic privilege.  Click the buttons below for more information on what each team is doing.