Merit-Based Funding Hurts the Poor: A Community College View in Florida.

Padron, Eduardo J.

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Publication Date: 2002

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Merit-Based Funding Hurts the Poor: A Community College View in Florida.

Padron, Eduardo J.

College Board Review, n195 p34-39 Win 2002

The head of the largest community college in the United States, Miami-Dade Community College, warns that the ebbing of need-based financial aid threatens the efforts of the poor and minorities to gain a postsecondary education. (EV)

Descriptors: Access to Education, College Presidents, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Minority Groups, Paying for College, Poverty, Student Financial Aid

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Language: English

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