February 10, 2006

Educational Equity and the Transfer Student

By JOSHUA WYNER

Leaders in higher education have recently sharpened their focus on a well-established problem: the inaccessibility of our nation's most selective colleges and universities to low-income students. But few of those leaders seem to realize that a good part of the solution lies within community colleges.

In 2003 the labor economists Anthony P. Carnevale and Stephen J. Rose reported that only 3 percent of students at the most selective colleges are from families in the lowest socioeconomic

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