Kirsten Collins, TRIO Student Support Services adviser, and Minerva Munoz, director of TRIO Upward Bound, were awarded the Showcase Session for their presentation at the 2014 John Tate Academic Advising Conference.  Collins and Munoz presented “Understanding Class and Classism in Higher Education,” focused on their work with students living in poverty and their own experiences as low-income, first-generation students. They highlight and discuss the often unseen or ignored classism in higher education, as well as strategies for identifying classism in policies and everyday life. The Academic Advising Networking (AAN) determined the Showcase Session through evaluations after the presentation. They will present to AAN during the 2014-15 academic year.