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ERIC Number: EJ543018
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-5748
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Access, Equity, and the Privatization of College Counseling.
McDonough, Patricia M.; And Others
Review of Higher Education, v20 n3 p297-317 Spr 1997
Discusses the growing phenomenon of private college counseling services (independent educational consultants, or IECs), using survey results (n=157 IECs) to document their characteristics and those of their users, and considers the implications of the privatization of college counseling for admissions, students' college choice behaviors, and equity issues. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, College Bound Students, College Choice, Counseling Services, Educational Trends, Equal Education, Higher Education, Privatization, Student Characteristics, Trend Analysis, Users (Information)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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