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The 'Bottom' Seventy Percent: What America's Elite Institutions of Higher Learning Owe to Everyone Else
Publication Date: October 2009
Publisher(s): Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author(s): Kevin Carey
Series: VP001
Topic: Education (Adult, technical, and vocational education)
Education (Colleges and universities)
Education (Education policy and planning)
Keywords: Elite universities; College access
Type: Other
Coverage: Wisconsin United States
Abstract:
In this inaugural essay for the WISCAPE Viewpoints series, Kevin Carey argues that students with the greatest educational need--low-income, part-time, first-generation, working parents, immigrants, and people of color--are systematically funneled into institutions with the fewest resources. In response, elite universities must be uncommonly generous in the years ahead with respect to funding, transfers, and the amount of students they will serve.