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The Waning of America's Higher Education Advantage: International Competitors Are No Longer Number Two and Have Big Plans in the Global Economy

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2006

aggressively nurturing their higher education systems, expanding access, and better positioning themselves in the global economy …

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Strategies for E-Learning in Universities

Curran, Chris - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2004

: widening access to educational opportunity; enhancing the quality of learning; and reducing the cost of higher education. The …

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Some Consequences of the New Information and Communication Technologies for Higher Education

Trow, Martin A - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2000

It is a clouded crystal ball into which we peer to see the future of our universities and colleges, cloudy because of the uncertainties of the development of the new technologies of information and communication. The only thing we can be sure about is that these developments will have large and...

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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India and the US: A Study in Contrasts

Gupta, Asha - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2006

elitist to mass education, universities worldwide are under pressure to enhance access and equity, on the one hand, and to … maintain high standards of quality and excellence, on the other. Today the notion of equity not only implies greater access to … access go beyond minority to diversity. Affirmative action, too, has become race-exclusive and gender-neutral. The following …

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The Student Debt Dilemma: Debt Aversion as a Barrier to College Access

Burdman, Pamela - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

Though the rise in college student debt often has been blamed on rising tuition, a radical shift in student financial aid--from a system relying primarily on need-based grants to one dominated by loans--has been equally important. Numerous reports have highlighted the burdens faced by students...

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An Analysis of Alternatives for Gaining Capacity So As to Maintain Access to the University of California

King, C. Judson - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2006

This paper analyzes the need for providing additional undergraduate enrollment capacity at the University of California (UC) and of alternatives for gaining such capacity at UC and, by extension, other public research universities. In addition to the creation of new campuses, other approaches...

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A Social Contract Between the Public Higher Education Sector and the People of South Africa

Bawa, Ahmed C - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2000

The higher education sector in South Africa is experiencing an existential crisis. For all of its diverse elements and activities and values as a system, its historic mission and the role that it plays in society were defined for it in the previous era - this not withstanding the progressive...

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A New Cycle of UK Higher Education Reforms: New Labour and New Fees May Foster Mission Differentiation

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2004

access to underserved populations. …

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All Globalization Is Local: Countervailing Forces and the Influence on Higher Education Markets

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

Globalization trends and innovations in the instructional technologies are widely believed to be creating new markets and forcing a revolution in higher education. Much of the rhetoric of "globalists" has presented a simplistic analysis of a paradigm shift in higher education markets and the way...

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From Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage

Trow, Martin A - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2000

the creation of systems of mass higher education and also move towards Internet-based universal access. It examines these …

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