🧵Via Chetty et al 2020 opportunityinsights.org/paper/undermat…
Family incomes of Univ of Colorado System students in these distributions of income:
Top 25%= 58% of students
Top 10%= 41%
Top 5% = 28%
Top 1% = 8%
If this is actually System (all 4 campuses) then CU Boulder is even more skewed
Family incomes of Univ of Colorado System students in these distributions of income:
Top 25%= 58% of students
Top 10%= 41%
Top 5% = 28%
Top 1% = 8%
If this is actually System (all 4 campuses) then CU Boulder is even more skewed
Of 1191 public universities in the Chettey et al 2020 database, only the University of Michigan has a greater proportion of rich students than does Univ of Colorado
Likely why CUB has (tie for) lowest average debt at graduation among PAC-12 schools
brookings.edu/opinions/biden…
Likely why CUB has (tie for) lowest average debt at graduation among PAC-12 schools
brookings.edu/opinions/biden…
At the same time, CU Boulder has the fewest Pell Grant recipients among PAC-12 schools
These numbers are -- in a word -- shocking.
To understand why CU Boulder has a diversity problem, one has to simply follow the money -- which prospective students are recruited, admitted and who pays.
The pandemic will I fear make all of this worse.
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To understand why CU Boulder has a diversity problem, one has to simply follow the money -- which prospective students are recruited, admitted and who pays.
The pandemic will I fear make all of this worse.
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