Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity / / Charles T. Clotfelter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Clotfelter, Charles T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) :; 1 halftone, 62 graphs, 8 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Part I. Context --; 1. Unequal Colleges --; 2. System, Industry, or Crazy Quilt? --; 3. Snapshot, Circa 1970 --; 4. Outside Forces --; Part II. Supply --; 5. The Inequality Dividend --; 6. Zero-Sum Competition --; 7. Evolution in the Core Business --; Part III. Demand --; 8. Scholastic Segregation --; 9. Economic Stratification --; 10. Sorting by Seriousness --; 11. Sorting by Belief ? --; Part IV. Consequences --; 12. Outcomes --; 13. Why It Matters --; Appendix: Table A.1 Shares by College Category of Total Undergraduate Enrollment in 1,157 Four-Year Institutions --; Appendix: Table A.2 The Dwindling Share of Places at Elite Colleges --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982499; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982499
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles T. Clotfelter.

Based on quantitative comparisons of colleges since the 1970s, Charles Clotfelter reveals that despite the civil rights revolution, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification in higher education has grown starker. He explains why undergraduate education—unequal in 1970—is even more so today.