Condition of Access: Higher Education for Lower Income Students

By Donald E. Heller. 2005

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What Higher Education Has to Say about the Transition to College (2007, background): “There is some evidence that need-based grants, rather than loans, are more successful in promoting persistence, but the evidence is mixed (Heller, 2002; Murdock, 1987; Perna, 1998).”
Contextual Influences on Parental Involvement in College Going: Variations by Socioeconomic Class (2008, result): “Although college enrollment rates increased for all groups over the past three decades, the gap in these rates between students from low-income families and those from high-income families was the same size in 1997 as in 1970 (32 percentage points; Fitzgerald & Delaney, 2002).”
Pathways to Boosting the Earnings of Low-Income Students by Increasing Their Educational Attainment. (2009, background): “• More than 40 percent of students in the top income quartile attain a bachelor’s degree within five years of entering college, compared to 6 percent of students from the lowest income quartile (Fitzgerald & Delaney, 2002).”