Engines of Inequality: Dissiminating Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities. Gerald, Danette and Haycock, Kati. The Education Trust, Washington, 2006, 25 pages (on-line version).

The Education Trust, an American non-profit group concerned with education, has recently presented a report Engines of Inequality: Dissiminating Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities. The report focuses on the US 50 leading public universities and argues that, in general, they underrepresent low-income and minority students. This unequal representation has increased over the last years. The main reason appears to be the financial policies of the flagship universities, which target high-income students, thus reallocating financial aid resources from the low-income students.

The Education Trust urges the nation’s flagship universities to review their policies in order to develop the youth intellectual potential in their states. Engines of Inequality: Dissiminating Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities