"Open Admissions and Equal Access: A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York"
Journal article
By: David E. Lavin, et al.
Date: February 1979
Source: Lavin, David E. et al." Open Admissions and Equal Access: A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York." Harvard Educational Review 49, no. 1, February 1979, 53–57.
About the Author: David Lavin is a professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has studied sociology of education and issues involving social inequality in education. Lavin has written a number of articles and books on the open admissions policies at CUNY.
Introduction
Colleges and universities adopted open admissions policies in the 1970s to increase minority enrollment. The policy of the seventeen-campus City University of New York (CUNY) system has been studied since it began in 1970. Criticized by many for opening the doors of the university to unqualified...
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