March 23, 2007
In California, a Public Research University Succeeds Because Its Low-Income Students Do
Riverside has long struggled to shake its reputation as a campus of last resort in the University of California system, taking in students who could not get accepted at more prestigious branches.
But Riverside's position has also allowed it to draw large numbers of students from low-income backgrounds, who are likelier than their wealthier peers to have received poor preparation in high school and to come from families without college-going experience. That has helped Riverside carve
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