Issue #235 - January 2012
This issue of OPPORTUNITY: The inconvenient truth...Family Income and Educational Attainment, 1970 to 2010 is devoted to our annual analysis of data from the Census Bureau on educational progression and attainment by levels of family income.  Students from different family income backgrounds are sorted, tracked and either encouraged or discouraged to persist and attain according to their inherited family income backgrounds. This process is especially brutal in higher education where nearly all efforts—perhaps including yours in enrollment management—have been directed toward and benefit almost entirely students born into the top half of family incomes, above about $61,600.    more
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(2/2/2012) TRIO Programs Summary StatisticsThis spreadsheet was used in the December 2012 Issue #234 of OPPORTUNITY.
(12/5/2011) The American Experiment: Higher Educating the UnderservedFirst International Australasian Conference on Enabling Access to Higher Education
University of South Australia West Campus
December 6, 2011
Adelaide, Australia
(11/9/2011) Reality versus Policy: Consequences of the DisconnectProf. Jan Friedel's Higher Education Class
Iowa State University
November 9, 2011
Ames, IA
(11/3/2011) Males in Education and WorkAmerican Enterprise Institute
November 2, 2011
Washington, DC
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