Posts published on May 2, 2011

Views on Race Impact Who Can Attend College

From Gay Cliburn: Carnegie Foundation

VIEWS OF WHO CAN ATTEND COLLEGE ARE DEEPLY DIVIDED BY RACE
Race appears to play a central role in shaping Americans’ views on higher-education access, and many see minority students as advantaged and middle-class students as disadvantaged when it comes to opportunity to attend college, according to study results scheduled to be presented next week at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. “What we see from our data is that there are several different groups of Americans who have very different views about who is able to attend college and who is not,” said Brian Powell a professor of sociology at Indiana University at Bloomington who is one of the coauthors of a paper on the study’s findings. The article is in The Chronicle of Higher Education.