Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation's Premier Public Universities.

Abstract

The nation's 50 flagship universities serve disproportionately fewer low-income and minority students than in the past, according to this report by the Education Trust. Students in the entering and graduating classes at these schools look less and less like the state populations those universities were created to serve. The study shows how financial aid choices made by these prestigious public universities result in higher barriers to college enrollment and success among low-income students and students of color.