Beyond Access: Persistence Challenges and the Diversity of Low-Income Students

✍ Scribed by Melanie E. Corrigan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Weight: 63 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0560
• DOI: 10.1002/he.99

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Public policy often emphasizes access to higher education, but low‐income students face more difficult challenges on the path to degree attainment. Adult low‐income students have different obligations and goals than their younger counterparts. Institutional leaders and policymakers can encourage persistence among low‐income students with flexible policies that accommodate new enrollment patterns, diverse family structures, and differing educational and economic goals.