New Article: Opening Opportunities in International Higher Education

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An article by Joan Dassin, executive director of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, in the Chronicle of Higher Education notes that access to higher education remains highly restricted through much of the developing world, with factors such as poverty, gender, race, ethnicity, and rural origins determining unequal access to education. Dassin makes the case that governments, higher education institutions, aid agencies, and private foundations are integral to alleviating these inequalities; and she offers the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program as a particularly successful example.

To read the full article, please visit: http://chronicle.com/article/Opening-Opportunities-in/129984/?sid=at