Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

Fred A. Lazin is the Lynn & Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government and chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University.N. Jayaram is professor of social sciences at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.Matt Evans is assistant professor of political science at Penn State, Altoona.

• Chapter 1 1.Introduction: Higher Education and Equality of OpportunityChapter 2 2.The Earth is Flattening: The Globalization of Higher Education and its Implications for Equal OpportunityPart 3 One: AmericaChapter 4 3.Challenges and Opportunities of Community CollegesChapter 5 4.Minority Access to Higher Education in the United States and the White-Minority Credentials GapChapter 6 5.Prestige and Quality in American Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 7 6.From Open Admissions to the Honors College: Equal Opportunities at the City University of New YorkChapter 8 7.The Changing American College Experience: A View from the City University of New York, Hunter CollegePart 9 Two: Asia, The Middle East and AfricaChapter 10 8.Promoting Access of the Poor through Student Loans in Asia: Prerequisites for SuccessChapter 11 9.The Quest for World-Class Status: Globalization and Higher Education in East AsiaChapter 12 10. The Korean Passage to Tertiary Education for All: Over-PrivatizationChapter 13 11.Disparities in Access to Higher Education in India: Persistent Issues and the Changing ContextChapter 14 12.Educational Policy toward "Homeland Minorities" in Deeply Divided Societies: India and IsraelChapter 15 13.Improving Access to Higher Education for Students from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds in IsraelChapter 16 14.Higher Education in Africa: Challenges of Development and GenderChapter 17 15.Development of Corporate and Private Universities in Ghana: Effects on Curriculum, Faculty, Access and EquityPart 18 Three: Europe and OceanaChapter 19 16.Access to Higher Education in France: Between Equality of Rights and Meritocracy, a Long Walk to Equality of Opportunities?Chapter 20 17.Equal Opportunity in a Public System: Experiences of Ethnic Minority Students in Dutch Higher EducationChapter 21 18.Access to Higher Education for Students with Mental Health difficulties: An Equal Opportunities IssueChapter 22 19.Altruism and Avarice: The Place of Foreign Students in Australian UniversitiesChapter 23 20.A Dual Admission Policy: Enhancing Equal Opportunities in Higher Education in New Zealand through Merit-based Admission Policy

Succinct and immensely readable, this is required reading for university leaders. Examples from a dozen lands illustrate the altruism and the avarice characterizing expansion of global education. No recent title covers the waterfront as well as this study does. Tussling with strangled budgets and unremitting admissions pressure, we need the insights offered here with wit and wisdom. Just occasionally we get a volume as good as this.