Bridge Programs Over Troubled Water Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed Rice College president Reginald DesRoches launched his career as a civil engineer–turned–higher ed administrator back in the early 1980s, when he joined a summer bridge program for students from underrepresented backgrounds before his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley.
Precollege programs can help boost access for students from underrepresented communities. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning affirmative action could force colleges to rethink them. |