John H. Pryor, director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, says the lines are not drawn as liberal or conservative around issues of affirmative action.
“Liberal and conservative freshmen are divided … by gay rights and abortion,” he says. “Middle-of-the-road students are somewhat more liberal in their actual viewpoints. So some issues have been taken up as the core of liberal or conservative beliefs, while others have not.”
Two out of three students had concerns about financing their college education, according to the survey. Pryor says students who come from families that make less than $50,000 a year are more than seven times more likely to have concerns about finances than those who come from a family income of $100,000 or more.
— By Shilpa Banerji
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