The open-admissions experiment at the City University of New York
was the most ambitious effort ever made to promote equality of
opportunity in American higher education. Initiated in 1970, during
the heyday of the "great society", it defined college as a right
for all who had completed high school, and it especially aimed to
create educational opportunities for disadvantaged minority
students. This book evaluates that controversial experiment.
Although critics predicted that the open-admissions policy would
sweep away academic standards and result in watered down degrees of
little value, David Lavin and David Hyllegard present data to show
that students who graduated were able not only to earn postgraduate
degrees at non-CUNY institutions but also to obtain good jobs - far
better than the jobs they could have expected without the
opportunity open admissions gave them. Indeed, in one year in the
1980s, say the authors, open-admissions students earned $67 million
more than they would have if they had not gone to college.
Notwithstanding the successes of open admissions, attacks on it
have continued, and, as the book shows, minority access to college
has been cut back significantly at CUNY and elsewhere. This book
provides ammunition for those who want to challenge emerging
policies that narrow educational opportunities for minority
students and poor people.
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