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Public Attitudes on Higher Education: A Trend Analysis, 1993 to 2003
Publication Date: February 2004
Publisher(s): Public Agenda Foundation
Author(s): John Immerwahr
Funder(s): National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (U.S.)
Funder(s): National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (U.S.)
Topic: Education (Colleges and universities)
Type: Report
Abstract:
This analysis finds that parents of high school students are increasingly worried about access to college. African Americans and Hispanics are especially concerned about access. Among African Americans, there is a substantial increase in the number who say college education is a necessity. At the broadest level, however, attitudes about higher education have changed little, with the vast majority of Americans believing that a college education is more important than in the past and that we should not allow the price of higher education to keep qualified students out.