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【单选题】Roy Guzman found himself in an educational no-man’s-lanD、
A、bright, industrious teen who came to Miami from Honduras nine years ago, he scored well enough on his SAT that he was being recruited by Stanford University.But despite the tuition aid he could have received, Guzman felt that he and his family weren’t ready for the heavy financial burden of four years at a prestigious college.And despite his good grades, Guzman was worried that he wasn’t ready academically either.
But just as he was about to delay college and join the Marines, Guzman heard that MiamiDadeCollege, one of the largest community colleges in the U. S. , had created an honors college offering an advanced, university-level core curriculum that would allow him to fine-tune his skills and do it without having to pay Stanford’s $29,847 tuition. Now in his second and final year at MiamiDade, Guzman, 19, is as confident as aConnecticut preppy about tackling Stanford or an Ivy League college next year. "If I had gone to Stanford, I might be failing," he says. "But now I won’t be wondering if I’m just filling a [minority enrollment] quot
A、I’ll know for sure that I’m ready to take on those schools’ requirements. "
Guzman has taken advantage of the fact that community colleges—the democratic, blue-collar institutions of U. S. higher education in the 20 th century—are trying on more upscale caps and gowns in the 21st. They’re still a bargain; a year of tuition and fees at MiamiDade runs about $3,000.But more than a third of the 1,157 community colleges in the U. S. have developed some kind of honors program designed to attract higher-quality students and professors.As cash-strapped states cap enrollment at public universities despite a rise in the number of 18-year—olds-community-college honors programs offer talented students a respectable place to start their higher education.As a result, the median age of community-college students has dropped, from 27 in 1990 to 23 today.
But does the greater academic cachet betray the community college’s original mission to provide a refuge for remedial undergrads and midlife career switchers The honors college at MiamiDade uses less than $1 million of the school’s $643 million budget.But its approximately 400 students, who all get scholarships, enjoy an enviable student-professor ratio of less than 15 to 1, compared with about 25 to 1 for regular students.And while more than 80% of MiamiDade’s honors students are black or Latino, students in similar programs at other community colleges have been predominantly white females. "We have to be careful that in the scramble for prestige we don’t lose our most important focus—open access," says Richard Romano, director of the Institute forCommunityCollege Research.But MiamiDade presidentEduardo Padron argues that "it is unfair to restrict community colleges to that traditional role and allow only the four-year colleges or research universities to teach more elite students." Having these more ambitious scholars on campus, he says, creates a "motivational role model" for the rest of his 160,000 students.
To be admitted to MiamiDade’s honors program, students need either a minimum 3.7 high school grade-point average or 1,800 on the new SAT, and they have to maintain a 3.5 GP
A、to stay in. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with MiamiDade that, in some cases, guarantee its honors grads acceptance right into their junior classes. Therein lies a bonus benefit of the honors boom: as the SupremeCourt has made it harder for university admissions offices to use minority quotas to diversify their student populations, the programs at these two- year schools are graduating more black and Latino students whose talents and preparation mean they don’t necessarily need to rely on a quota system for admission into those schools.
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[解析] A选项原文没有提到，没有依据，所以选A;原文第2段古斯曼说：“倘若当初进了斯坦福，我可能会搞砸的。”可见很多像古斯曼这样的学生因为社区大学得以继续深造；原文最后一段提到“约90所四年制高校，已与迈阿密达德学院签署协议，同意达德学院的毕业生在特定情况下直接进入其学校读大三课程”，与C选项意思一致；原文最后一段指出“最高法院加大力度限制高校采用少数民族配额的招生方式扩大学生的多元化”，可见四年制大学也追求生源多样化。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>