Volumes have been written on equality and higher ed. Here’s a short list:
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin.
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, by Peter Sacks, due in May.
College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? Edited by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro. A College Board publication that compiles reports from various higher education minds, such as David W. Breneman, Dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, Gordon C. Winston, economics professor at Williams College, and Catharine B. Hill, economist and president of Vassar College.
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Daniel Golden.
“Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroads.” 2004 conference, Chapel Hill, NC. www.unc.edu/inclusion/
Other organizations studying the issue include: The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, the College Board Task Force on College Access for Low-Income Students, and the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA.
