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EWA​, the professional organization dedicated to ​strengthening the community of education ​writers and improving the ​quality of education coverage ​to better inform the public, hosts ​a weekly podcast featuring lively interviews with journalists.

Oct 1, 2013

For many students, the first hurdle in their pursuit of a degree is the admissions process. As the debates swirl about whether colleges should offer special considerations—whether race-based or class-based—in choosing which students to accept, what is known about how much access students of all backgrounds have to higher education?

Speakers:Stella Flores, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Peabody College of Education & Human Development; Matt Gaertner, Research Scientist, Center for College & Career Success at Pearson; Jeff Strohl, Director of Research, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce; Richard Pérez-Peña, Reporter, The New York Times (moderator)

Recorded Saturday, Sept. 28 at EWA's 2013 Higher Ed Seminar, Guess Who's Coming to Campus: What Demographic Changes Mean for Colleges and Reporters.