63.022 - Do Higher Ed Accountability Proposals Narrow Opportunity for Minority Students and Minority-Serving Institutions?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Students of color have not achieved equal opportunity for higher education and many of the institutions that serve them are struggling with economic and policy challenges. Some critics of the Obama Administration claim that recent accountability and financial aid policy changes would close the door to college for many deserving students. This session will feature new and original empirical studies that examine policy issues with the goal of avoiding unintended negative consequences.

Sub Unit

• Social Justice Action Committee

Chair

• Gary A. Orfield, University of California - Los Angeles

Participants

• Stella M. Flores, New York University

• Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of Wisconsin Madison

• Sylvia Hurtado, University of California - Los Angeles

• Anne-Marie Nunez, The University of Texas - San Antonio

Discussant

• Gary A. Orfield, University of California - Los Angeles