Increasing Access to Higher Education Among Low-Income Students: The Washington State Achievers Program

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie B. Myers ◽  
Doreen E. Brown ◽  
D. Michael Pavel
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Hugo Augusto Vasconcelos Medeiros ◽  
Ruy De Deus E Mello Neto ◽  
Alfredo Macedo Gomes

The paper analyzes if the devices in Brazilian quota law are sufficient to guarantee the aims of the affirmative action, in order to promote democratic access to higher education through a fair redistribution of reserved spots. Firstly, we consider the racial self-declaration as a criterion to decide access to the quota; secondly, the technical difficulties and the possibility of competition inter and intragroup; thirdly, the difference between the percentages of blacks, pardos, indigenes (PPI) and low income students in general population, and the percentages of blacks, pardos, indigenes (PPI) and low income students in the socioeconomic strata used by quota law to define the reserved spots. The criteria for reserved spot distribution comprehend not only the obligation of study all the high school in a public institution, but also devices for calculus of the groups with access with reserved spots, according to four classifications: I-a: students from public middle schools, with per capita family income equal or less than 1,5 minimum wage, and PPI; I-b: students from public middle schools with per capita family income equal to or less than 1,5 minimum wage, no PPI; and II-a: students from public middle schools with per capita family income above 1,5 minimum wage, PPI; II-b: students from public middle schools with per capita family income above 1,5 minimum wage, no PPI. Metodologically, we analyzed documents related to the quota law process, and comparative quantitative analisys of the educational and demographical census is made. We conclude that despite its importance as a landmark to affirmative actions in higher education, quota law doesn’t have the necessary conditions to guarantee a fair distribution of the reserved spots.


Author(s):  
Steven Brint

This chapter discusses other major challenges to the U.S. higher education system: rising costs, online competition, and controversies over permissible speech. These challenges can be interpreted as problems of growth in the context of resource constraints. Cost problems were largely attributable to universities' requirements for sufficient revenues to support larger staffs and new responsibilities within the context of state disinvestment. Online competition was a result of the search for market alternatives to traditional, high-cost residential campuses within the context of an expanding system that included many low-income students. And the conflicts over speech were, in most cases, the by-product of tensions between students from comparatively privileged backgrounds and those from underrepresented groups.


Author(s):  
Nate Bryant

This chapter presents the characteristics and challenges that low-income students face culturally, socially, and academically, and identifies services that have a positive impact on their retention. Low-income students are defined as students whose total family income is below $50,000 a year. While higher education institutions boast about the increase in low-income students enrolling in college, the data show that the retention of these students is not as praiseworthy. Colleges and universities have not been nimble in meeting students where they are academically. Rather, they expect students to navigate the institutional structures and cultures that pre-date the changing demographics of higher education. Recognizing the characteristics of low-income students in relation to education, and understanding the challenges they face, will be helpful to higher education institutions as they create programs to meet the needs of this most vulnerable population.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONARDO CIVINELLI TORNEL DA SILVEIRA

ABSTRACT This article analyses the widening access policies implemented by Brazil during the 1990s and in 2016. It cites and evaluates the different strategies used by the government, such as student loans, needs-based and race-based quotas. In the context of a highly privatized sector, in which for-profit higher education institutions account for over half of the existing higher education institutions in Brazil, the results display a relative growth in higher education access based on minorities and needs-based communities. However, it also showcases some trends not achieved as originally planned by the government (specially increasing higher education participation in regions other than the south and the southeast) and serves as a point requiring further research to evaluate the influence on the lives of students and graduates. This study uses government and publicly available sources to analyse the impact of this strategy over time.


2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gorete Ferreira ◽  
Elias Kallás Filho

O estudo discutiu a implementação de políticas públicas que asseguram o direito ao acesso no ensino superior, como meio de inserção na sociedade, buscando responder à seguinte questão: até que ponto o ProUni, como política pública contribui para o acesso ao ensino superior e a formação para a atuação profissional? Mediante o objetivo de conhecer os significados de ser estudante universitário beneficiado pelo ProUni, como política pública que pretende articular o efetivo exercício da igualdade. O trabalho desenvolveu-se em quatro capítulos. No primeiro, faz-se uma apresentação geral do direito à educação, fundamentado na CR e na LDB. No segundo, busca-se uma contextualização sobre o Programa, como política pública de ação afirmativa voltada à ampliação do acesso ao ensino superior. No terceiro, são demonstrados os resultados do estudo; no quarto capítulo, tratou-se da discussão. O estudo foi de abordagem qualitativa, do tipo descritivo, de campo e transversal. Empregou-se o método do DSC. A amostra compôs por 30 alunos de ambos os gêneros, bolsistas ProUni, com idade entre 23 e 40 anos. A conclusão aponta para o fato de que o ProUni, contribuiu de maneira significativa para os bolsistas, que pertencem a população de baixa renda, possibilitando o efetivo exercício da igualdade. Palavras-chave: Educação. Políticas Públicas. ProUni. Ensino Superior. Abstract RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY PROUNI The study discussed the implementation of public policies that ensure the right of access to higher education as a means of integration into society, seeking to answer the following question: to what extent ProUni, as public policy contributes to access to higher education and training for professional practice? By the aim of knowing the meanings of being college student benefited by ProUni, as a public policy that articulates the effective exercise of equality. The work developed in four chapters. In the first, an overview is made of the right to education, based on the CR and LDB. In the second, we seek a contextualization of the program, as a public policy of affirmative action aimed at broadening access to higher education. In the third, they are shown the results of the study; in the fourth chapter, this was the discussion. The study was a qualitative approach, descriptive, field and cross. We used the DSC method. The sample was composed by 30 students of both genders, ProUni fellows, aged between 23 and 40 years. The finding points to the fact that ProUni, contributed significantly to the stock, which belong to the low income population, enabling the effective exercise of equality. Keywords: Education. Public policy.ProUni.Higher education.


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