-
The Declining "Equity" of American Higher Education
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 3, Spring 2004
- pp. 321-341
- 10.1353/rhe.2004.0001
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
An analysis of three decades of data from national samples of entering college freshmen reveals that (a) there are substantial socioeconomic inequities in access to the most selective U.S. colleges and universities and that (b) American higher education is more socioeconomically stratified today than at any time during the past three decades. The increasing concentration of high-SES students in the most selective institutions appears to have come primarily at the expense of middle-SES students.