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DSC_0038 6/17/10 EVENT: Rewarding Strivers_Are Efforts to Increase Equity in Higher Education Working?
Over the last several years, new policies have been enacted to make higher education more equitable. Roughly 100 colleges and universities have reached out to lower and moderate-income students with more generous financial aid packages. Likewise, the Obama Administration has recently boosted funding for Pell Grants and community colleges. But is stratification increasing or decreasing in higher education? Moreover, with a new legal challenge to racial preferences at the University of Texas possibly headed to the Supreme Court, what is the future of affirmative action and what alternative forms may it take in coming years?
DSC_0038 6/17/10 EVENT: Rewarding Strivers_Are Efforts to Increase Equity in Higher Education Working?
Over the last several years, new policies have been enacted to make higher education more equitable. Roughly 100 colleges and universities have reached out to lower and moderate-income students with more generous financial aid packages. Likewise, the Obama Administration has recently boosted funding for Pell Grants and community colleges. But is stratification increasing or decreasing in higher education? Moreover, with a new legal challenge to racial preferences at the University of Texas possibly headed to the Supreme Court, what is the future of affirmative action and what alternative forms may it take in coming years?