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Ranking the Nation's Flagship State Universities and Historically Black Colleges on Their Success in Enrolling Low-Income Students
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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July 1, 2008
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The nation's flagship state universities have a mixed record in their efforts to enroll low-income students. But a large majority of black colleges and universities in the United States have student bodies in which more than one half of all students come from low-income families.
In recent issues of JBHE* we have reported the disappointing and surprisingly small percentages of low-income students at the nation's highest-ranking private colleges and universities. For example, over the past two decades only 10 of the nation's 30 highest-ranking universities have shown an improvement in their percentage of low-income students. Over the past two years, only two of the 30 highest-ranking ...
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