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2009

Abstract

Higher education has been characterized as “one of the greatest hopes for intellectual and civic progress in this country. Yet for many Americans, however, it has been seen as part of the prob-lem rather than the solution ” (Boyer, 1997, p. 85). Some have acknowl-edged that higher education is a public good through which individual participation accrues benefits for the larger society (Institute for Higher Education Policy, 1998; Kezar, Chambers, & Burkhardt, 2005; Lewis & Hearn, 2003). Despite this, recent analyses have confirmed that too few African Americans are offered access to the socioeconomic advantages associated with college degree attainment (Harper, 2006; Perna et al., 2006). In some ways, the recurrent struggle for racial equity is surpris-ing, given the number of policies that have been enacted to close college opportunity gaps between African Americans and their White counter-parts at various junctures throughout the history of higher education. Though presumably for ...

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