Paradoxes of the democratization of higher education

• Other Authors: Youn, Ted I. K.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, c. 2016.
• Series: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Education > Higher.; Higher & further education, tertiary education.; Educational strategies & policy.; Democracy and education.; Higher education and state.; Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
• Online Access: Access Fulltext via EzAccess

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (RSPPP) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the sharpening and reshaping of scientific discourse involving the intersection of social problems and public policy. In particular, it is interested in the analysis of the potential failure of public institut...

Table of Contents:

• The intersection of student loans and social class: exploring borrowers' journeys into debt and repayment / Elissa Chin Lu
• Cooling out and leveled aspirations among low-income university STEM students / Heather Haeger, Regina Deil-Amen
• Predictors of low-SES student persistence from the first to second year of college / Heather T. Rowan-Kenyan, Rebecca D. Blanchard, Brian D. Reed, Amy K. Swan
• Country roads take me?: an ethnographic case study of college pathways among rural, first-generation students / Sarah Elizabeth Beasley
• The paradoxes of pathways from college aspirations to attendance / Karen D. Arnold, Katherine Lynk Wartman
• Mapping institutional legitimacy in meeting of expanding demand for education / Elizabeth Storrs.