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--- |\n| Arizona State University |  |\n| Volume 31 Number 111 October 3, 2023 ISSN 1068-2341 |  |\n\nMoney Matters: How Social Class Shapes Students’Understandings of Financing Their Education1  \nSaralyn McKinnon-Crowley  \nBaylor University  \nAshli Duncan-Buchanan  \nThe University of Texas at Austin  \nEliza Epstein  \nThe University of Texas at Austin  \nHuriya Jabbar  \nUniversity of Southern California  \n&  \nLauren Schudde  \nThe University of Texas at Austin  \nUnited States  \nCitation: McKinnon-Crowley, S., Duncan-Buchanan, A., Epstein, E., Jabbar, H., & Schudde, L.(2023). Money matters: How social class influences students’ understandings of financing their education. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31(111). [https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.7882](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.7882)  \n[Abstract:](Abstract: Higher education is increasingly expensive)[ Higher education is increasingly expensive](Abstract: Higher education is increasingly expensive), [and access disparities by](and access disparities by) race and social class exist. Yet, we lack nuance in the scholarly literature about students’ understandings of how  \n1 We would like to thank the Greater Texas Foundation for their support of this research.  \nthey finance their college education. We examine how class-based differences influence how students finance college education. We draw on concepts from economic sociology and sensemaking to examine how class backgrounds shape students’ meaning-making of finance and funding their college education. Through interviews with 56 community college students, we examine what money means to students and how that varies across classes, with implications for transfer decisions and outcomes. We surface important implications for students’ behaviors and decisions in college.  \nKeywords: community college; student financial aid; social class; economic sociology; higher education; community college transfer  \nEl dinero importa: Cómo la clase social influye en las percepciones de los estudiantes sobre la financiación de su educación  \nResumen: La educación superior es cada vez más costosa y existen disparidades de acceso por raza y clase social. Sin embargo, carecemos de matices en la literatura académica sobre la comprensión de los estudiantes sobre cómo financian su educación universitaria. Examinamos cómo las diferencias basadas en clases influyen en cómo los estudiantes financian la educación universitaria. Nos basamos en conceptos de la sociología económica y la creación de sentido para examinar cómo los antecedentes de clase dan forma a lacreación de significado de las finanzas de los estudiantes y la financiación de su educaciónuniversitaria. A través de entrevistas con 56 estudiantes de colegios comunitarios, examinamos qué significa el dinero para los estudiantes y cómo eso varía entre las clases, con implicaciones para las decisiones de transferencia y los resultados. Destacamos implicaciones importantes para los comportamientos y decisiones de los estudiantes en la universidad.  \nPalabras clave: colegio comunitario; ayuda financiera para estudiantes; clase social; sociología económica; educación más alta; transferencia de colegio comunitario  \nO dinheiro é importante: Como a classe social influencia a percepção dos alunos sobre ofinanciamento da educação  \nResumo: O ensino superior está cada vez mais caro, e existem disparidades de acesso por raça eclasse social. No entanto, faltam nuances na literatura acadêmica sobre a compreensão dos alunos sobre como eles financiam sua educação universitária. Examinamos como as diferenças baseadas em classe influenciam a forma como os alunos financiam a educação universitária. 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