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Issues of Access and Affordability

by Eleanor Lee Yates , October 5, 2006

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UCLA’s Walter Allen, left, answers a question from the floor during the first day of the Politics of Inclusion conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At right is Jerome Lucido of the University of Southern California.

In his presentation, “White Students and Their Parents: Fewer, Richer, More Anxious?” Lucido discussed that anxiety, which has spawned a booming industry of test preparation classes, independent college consultants and college essay services.

Howard Lee, chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education, recalled a recent trip to eastern North Carolina — a poorer area of the state. “So many students don’t have aspirations. In one group of 14 students I talked to, 12 did not think they could attend college,” he said.

Conference sponsors included the Lumina Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the College Foundation of North Carolina.



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