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Changing the Odds : Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged
Changing the Odds Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged Author:David Lavin, David Hyllegard This important book evaluates the open-admissions experiment begun by the City University of New York in 1970-the most ambitious effort ever made to promote equality of opportunity in American higher education. David Lavin and David Hyllegard document in full detail the successes of the program, showing that graduates were able not only to earn ... more »advanced degrees at non-CUNY institutions but also to obtain far better jobs than they could have without the open-admissions opportunity.« less