Exclusion of the majority: Shrinking college access and public policy in metropolitan Los Angeles |
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| Authors: | Gary Orfield |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 60637 Chicago, IL |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines trends in white and minority student experiences in the high schools, the community colleges, and the universities of the greater Los Angeles area since the mid-1970s. Black and Hispanic access to educational mobility is shown to have been severely hampered by high rates of dropping out of high school, by increasingly rigorous standards of admission and the high cost of attending 4-year public colleges, by the failure of community colleges in their transfer function, by the deemphasis on minority recruitment and retention programs, and by the curtailment of civil rights enforcement. To the extent that Los Angeles area trends forecast broader national patterns in our increasingly multiethnic society, the evidence from the area has fundamental national importance. |
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