Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison
| Autor: | Barbara Wolfe, John F. Witte, Sara E. Dahill-Brown |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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College application
Economic growth Higher education media_common.quotation_subject college access Family income Article Supply and demand lcsh:Social Sciences college application 0502 economics and business Institutional analysis Quality (business) 050207 economics Marketing lcsh:Social sciences (General) media_common business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education General Medicine General Chemistry lcsh:H income higher education admission Elite lcsh:H1-99 Business Access to Higher Education 0503 education Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 69-89 (2016) |
| Popis: | Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a detailed, quantitative assessment of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an elite flagship public university—the type that is supposed to offer excellent opportunities to students from all backgrounds. We use an innovative measure of family income to compare applicant, admissions, and enrollment trends for low-income and minority students from 1972 to 2007. The unique aspects of this study include the more reliable measure of income and the ability to look at the full process from applications, admissions, and matriculations (demand and supply), not generally available in national datasets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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