Flagship Universities Earn Poor Grades on Access, New Report Says

by E Wayne Ross on November 21, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: Flagships Flunked on Access

Nothing subtle about the title: “Engines of Inequality.” Public flagship universities do a generally poor job of enrolling and educating underrepresented minority students and those from low-income families, and actually regressed rather than made progress on those fronts from 1995 to 2004, the Education Trust argues in a report released Monday.

The Chronicle: Flagship Universities Earn Poor Grades on Access, New Report Says

The nation’s public flagship universities are becoming less accessible to students who are from low-income families or who are members of underrepresented minority groups, according to a report released on Monday by the Education Trust.