Zachary Bleemer Center for Studies in Higher Education University of California, Berkeley Mr. Bleemer's website Friday, April 12, 2019 - 11:15am Meigs Hall, Room 101 Education Policy Seminar Over the past 20 years, several states have experimented with postsecondary 'percent plan' policies--which guarantee public university admission to a fixed proportion of graduates from each high school--in order to increase university students' geographic diversity. Bleemer asks if these policies are effective, and if so, do they benefit impacted students. His study examines the 2001-2011 Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) program, which guaranteed University of California admission to students in the top four percent of California high school classes. He tracks the students by university completion, major, and gender linked to average mid-career earnings in the ACS. He also looks at individual-level California employment records for effects on students' average early-career likelihood of employment and unconditional earnings in the state.
