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Autor/in | Adelman, Clifford |
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Titel | Do We Really Have a College Access Problem? |
Quelle | In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 39 (2007) 4, S.48-51 (4 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0009-1383 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Credits; Credentials; Access to Education; Student Financial Aid; Grants; Hispanic American Students; White Students; African American Students; Racial Differences; Postsecondary Education; Enrollment Trends; Graduation Rate; Low Income Groups; High School Students; Low Achievement; Community Colleges; Student Participation; School Readiness; High School Graduates Studienbuch; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Grant; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Rassenunterschied; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Community college; Community College; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Graduate; Graduates; Absolvent; Absolventin |
Abstract | As Harold Lasswell and his colleagues observed of the rhetoric of power (Language of Politics, 1965), some words become magic, with "inexplicable powers" attributed to them. "Access" has become such a word in the discourse of higher education. The sloganistic use of the term implies that someone, somewhere, is preventing somebody from doing something in postsecondary education. But what is that "something"? "Access" is only one of three major thresholds for students' postsecondary careers. The other two are establishing sufficient credits to lead toward a credential (sometimes called "participation" or "persistence") and completion of that credential (sometimes called "success"). Between the first and second of these stages, the actors and their responsibilities change: Completing the requirements for a degree and ultimately graduating require that students accept a much higher level of responsibility than they do when they matriculate. In this article, the author gives four definitions of the term "access" that are currently in use--threshold access, recurrent access, convenient access, and distributional access. Using threshold access and the related idea of participation, he assesses the nature and dimensions of the problem the nation actually faces. (Contains 2 resources.) (ERIC). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |