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Tebbs, Jeffrey; Turner, Sarah – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
The extent to which colleges and universities provide opportunities for students from the most economically disadvantaged families is an important indicator of the potential for U.S. higher education to promote intergenerational mobility. Yet the measurement of "opportunity" for low-income students at the level of individual colleges and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Colleges, Universities, Measurement Techniques