College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?

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Book
ISBN 10
0874477743
ISBN 13
9780874477740
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
224
Subject
College costs--United States. Low-income college students--United States. Universities and colleges--United States--Admission. Student aid--United States.
Description
Contents:
Introduction / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro -- Extending opportunity: "what is to be done?" / William G. Bowen -- Was Justice O'Connor right? Race and highly selective college admissions in 25 years / Alan B. Krueger. Jesse Rothstein, and Sarah Turner -- Watch what we do (and not what we say): how student aid awards vary with financial need and academic merit / Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro -- How scarce are high-ability, low-income students? / Catharine B. Hill and Gordon C. Winston -- The challenge of improving the representation of low-income students at flagship universities: AccessUVa and the University of Virginia / Jeffrey Tebbs and Sarah Turner -- Six institutional perspectives on socioeconomic diversity / David W. Breneman -- Maximizing opportunity: steering underrepresented students through the selective college persistence tracks / Michael T. Nettles and Catherine M. Millett -- Claiming common ground: state policymaking for improving college readiness and success / Patrick M. Callan ... [et al.] -- Conclusion: making opportunity real / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro.
Introduction / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro -- Extending opportunity: "what is to be done?" / William G. Bowen -- Was Justice O'Connor right? Race and highly selective college admissions in 25 years / Alan B. Krueger. Jesse Rothstein, and Sarah Turner -- Watch what we do (and not what we say): how student aid awards vary with financial need and academic merit / Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro -- How scarce are high-ability, low-income students? / Catharine B. Hill and Gordon C. Winston -- The challenge of improving the representation of low-income students at flagship universities: AccessUVa and the University of Virginia / Jeffrey Tebbs and Sarah Turner -- Six institutional perspectives on socioeconomic diversity / David W. Breneman -- Maximizing opportunity: steering underrepresented students through the selective college persistence tracks / Michael T. Nettles and Catherine M. Millett -- Claiming common ground: state policymaking for improving college readiness and success / Patrick M. Callan ... [et al.] -- Conclusion: making opportunity real / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro.
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Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1402 | LB2342 .C595 2006 | 1 | Yes |