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A 10 page paper which analyzes the impact and effectiveness of the program for equal educational opportunity and outcomes for low-income minority students. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to be regulated by what position one occupies on the social ladder. Many people have looked to higher education as a way of equalizing the socioeconomic playing field, but
in the collegiate structure, distinctive gaps have also emerged that are "closely associated with socioeconomic status" (Gladieux and Swail, 2000, p. 688). Federal aid to students, which culminated in
passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965, was a sincere attempt to bridge the gaps of income and race (Gladieux and Swail, 2000). The Student Support Services (SSS)
program, one of the byproducts of the Act, focuses its efforts upon minority and disabled students from low-income families, in which there have been no members who have ever received
a college education. It was hoped that students who participated in the SSS program would, through motivation and tutoring, regard attending college and graduating with a four-year degree as
attainable goals that would enable them to improve their economic status, which would thereby ensure their social equality. However, as research studies have consistently revealed, this has been easier
said than done, as the "problem of unequal opportunity" persists into the twenty-first century (Gladieux and Swail, 2000, p. 688). In order to assess the impact of SSS
programs on the students it seeks to target, a survey was taken at Willsfield University, a pseudonym for a Midwestern Carnegie Research University located within an hours drive from a
major metropolitan center, with 26,000 of its 35,000 students being undergraduates (Douglas, 1998). Out of these undergraduates, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans constituted 9.2 percent of
this universitys total student enrollment (Douglas, 1998). Although the SSS students agreed their involvement was "key to their adjustment," all expressed concerns of the stigma attached to any type
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