Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
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- 2012
Summary
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good designed to insure greater equality of opportunities. This book explores the impact of diminishing government resources and expanding market forces in developing and developed countries to either foster or lessen equality of opportunities in higher education for different racial, ethnic, religious and gender groupings. What are the consequences of a market-driven higher education for student access, teaching and scholarship? Through case studies, this book explores issues such as access of minority groups within the larger societies, the place of foreign students in a national system, and access for students with mental health difficulties, and evaluates the success of funding schemes designed to expand opportunities and access. The research provides an interesting contrast of the diversity and uniqueness of higher education in the United States, France, Australia, India, Israel, South Korea, The Netherlands, Ghana and several other countries, while at the same time revealing surprising commonalities. These studies reveal world-wide trends in higher education including a cutback in government financing, a decline in access, and a receding of affirmative action. This book is an important addition to the literature on higher education during the age of globalization and the decline of government funding of higher education. The studies provide important data about the current situation in higher education in countries around the world.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-4669-9
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-4671-2
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 355
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- 1: Introduction: Higher Education and Equality of Opportunities No access Pages 1 - 10
- 2: The Earth is Flattening: The Globalization of Higher Education and Its Implications for Equal Opportunity No access Pages 11 - 22
- 3: Challenges and Opportunities of Community Colleges No access
- 4: Minority Access to Higher Education in the United States and the White-Minority Credentials Gap No access
- 5: Class Stratification and the Quest for Prestige in American Colleges and Universities No access
- 6: From Open Admissions to the Honors College: Equal Opportunities at the City University of New York No access
- 7: The Changing American College Experience: A View from the City University of New York, Hunter College No access
- 8: Can Student Loans Promote Greater Access for the Poor? No access
- 9: The Quest for World-Class Status: Globalization and Higher Education in East Asia No access
- 10: A Historical Sociology of “Tertiary Education for All” in Korea No access
- 11: Disparities in Access to Higher Education in India Persistent Issues and the Changing Context No access
- 12: Educational Policy toward “Homeland Minorities” in Deeply Divided Societies No access
- 13: Improving Access to Higher Education for Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds No access
- 14: Higher Education in Africa: Challenges of Development and Gender No access
- 15: The Development of Corporate and Private Universities in Ghana: Effects on Curriculum, Faculty, Access, and Equity No access
- 16: Access to Higher Education in France: Between Equality of Rights and Meritocracy, a Long Walk to Equality of Opportunities? No access
- 17: Equal Opportunity in a Public System: Experiences of Ethnic Minority Students in Dutch Higher Education No access
- 18: Access to Higher Education for Students with Mental Health Difficulties: An Equal Opportunities Issue No access
- 19: Altruism and Avarice: The Place of Foreign Students in Australian Universities No access
- 20: A Dual Admission Policy: Enhancing Equal Opportunities in Higher Education through Merit-based Admission Policy No access
- Index No access Pages 331 - 350
- About the Contributors No access Pages 351 - 355
