Supporting broad-access colleges and increasing opportunity

Supporting broad-access colleges and increasing opportunity at selective colleges are not mutually exclusive
Catharine Bond Hill and Martin Kurzweil, Opinion Contributors
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Supporting broad-access colleges and increasing opportunity at selective colleges are not mutually exclusive
Improving college opportunity and affordability is shaping up to be a policy priority for the incoming Biden administration. With good reason, many of the most prominent plans focus on broad-access institutions, like community colleges and regional public universities. But it is important to complement these efforts with policies to improve access to selective institutions. Well-resourced public and private institutions are important pathways to civic and economic leadership and yet they serve a population of students that is disproportionately white and wealthy. Increasing opportunity for lower-income students and students of color at these colleges is a necessary component of making higher education overall more equitable.

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