Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity /

Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity / / 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Clotfelter, Charles T.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; 1 halftone, 62 graphs, 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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