Unequal Higher Education : Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity
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| Title: | Unequal Higher Education : Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity |
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| Description: | American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy tremendous endowment savings and/or collect resources via research, which then offsets the funds that students contribute. Other institutions rely heavily on student tuition payments. These schools may struggle to remain solvent, and their students often bear the lion's share of educational costs. Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. Barrett J. Taylor and Brendan Cantwell use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity, especially for students of color and low-income individuals. |
| Authors: | Barrett J. Taylor, Brendan Cantwell |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | College costs--United States, Universities and colleges--United States--Finance, Universities and colleges--United States--Evaluation, Educational equalization--United States, Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States, Education, Higher--Economic aspects |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Comparative, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy tremendous endowment savings and/or collect resources via research, which then offsets the funds that students contribute. Other institutions rely heavily on student tuition payments. These schools may struggle to remain solvent, and their students often bear the lion's share of educational costs. Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the United States. Barrett J. Taylor and Brendan Cantwell use quantitative analysis to map the contours of this system. They then explain the mechanisms that sustain it and illustrate the ways in which rising institutional inequality has limited individual opportunity, especially for students of color and low-income individuals. |
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| ISBN: | 9780813593494 9780813593500 9780813593531 9780813593517 |
