Indicators of higher education equity in the United States

As illustrated by the indicators in this report, higher education outcomes are highly inequitable across family income groups. Moreover, on many of these indicators, gaps in outcomes are larger now than in the past. The disinvestment of state funds for public colleges and universities occurring since the 1980s and the declining value of federal student grant aid have all aided in the creation of a higher education system that is stained with inequality. Once known for wide accessibility to and excellence within its higher education system, the US now has an educational system that serves to so ... Show more

Authors: Cahalan, Margaret; Perna, Laura

Published: [Washington, District of Columbia], Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2015

Resource type: Statistical series

Physical description: 56 p.

Access item: https://web.archive.org/web/20160211200909/http://www.pellinstitute.org/downloads/publications-Indicators_of_Higher_Education_Equity_in_the_US_45_Year_Trend_Report.pdf

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