VIRTUAL EVENT: The origins and evolution of academic drift at the California State University

Academic drift has been a central concept in higher education scholarship for the past half-century. Across contexts, prestige-seeking lower-status academic institutions adopt the substantive and symbolic forms of more elite universities.

Despite emerging evidence that prestige might not be the only impetus for academic drift, higher education scholarship is yet to identify an alternate mechanism and explore its evolution at the field level over an extended period of time.

In this talk, Amal Kumar will explore the origins and evolution of academic drift through a historical study of the CSU system.

Speaker

• Amal Kumar, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society

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