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Cost, Access, and Equity in Higher Education

Bruce Johnstone, Bridget Long

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Format: Lecture

Length: 1:51 minutes

This program features two speeches presented at the daylong annual J. Donald Monan, SJ, Symposium on Higher Education, which this year focused on costs, access, and equity in higher education. In Part 1, D. Bruce Johnstone of the State University of New York at Buffalo discusses the barriers to higher education posed by cost and institutional capacity, focusing particularly on a comparison between the American higher education system and those in other parts of the world. He also examines issues of cost and prestige in private universities compared with public institutions. In Part 2, Bridget Terry Long, an education economist at Harvard University, devotes her talk to the gap between low- and high-income students in the United States. Following the speeches, there is a question-and-answer session with both presenters.

Presenter(s): Bruce Johnstone, Bridget Long

Date: November 30, 2007

Location: Walsh Hall Function Room

Sponsor(s): Boston College Center for International Higher Education; Fullbright New Century Scholars Program

URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/monan1/

The information on this page is accurate as of November 2007