Candidates Grapple With How to Expand Access to College

Never before has a college degree been more essential to an individual's prosperity in the United States. Nor have colleges ever been asked to play a more crucial part in preparing citizens for a global economy.

Yet finding a way to erase persisting inequities in who earns a college degree has proved difficult. With a new generation that is more financially needy and more diverse knocking on colleges' doors,access to higher education will be an important issue in 2008 presidential

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