Friday, November 22 / 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM LaSalle 1 (Floor 7)

Session 152
Different Beginnings-Comparative Perspectives on Early Tertiary Education

Chair: Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University
Discussant: David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

1. Changes in the Social Origin of Higher Education Graduates in Europe: 1950'S-2000's Socio-Economic, Gender, Ethnicity and ReligionGaele Goastellec, Université de Lausanne.

2. Higher Education in the United States and Germany in the Early Nineteenth CenturyAdam Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

3. Mutable Inequality: Meritocracy, Gender, and the Making of the Chinese Academe, 1912-1953Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chen Liang, Nanjing University; James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

4. The Spatial and Social Origins of Chinese Doctoral Students in North America and Europe, 1905-1962Zixin Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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