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Do We Really Have a College Access Problem?
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Adelman, Clifford – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
As Harold Lasswell and his colleagues observed of the rhetoric of power (Language of Politics, 1965), some words become magic, with "inexplicable powers" attributed to them. "Access" has become such a word in the discourse of higher education. The sloganistic use of the term implies that someone, somewhere, is preventing somebody from doing…
Descriptors: Credits, Credentials, Access to Education, Student Financial Aid