South African Higher Education: Two Decades Toward Transformation

May 21 – June 3, 2017

This program considered changes over the past two decades in South African higher education stemming from the historical legacy of inequity due to apartheid.  As part of this learning experience, the group traveled to South Africa to visit select colleges to discuss issues of access, student success, and organizational efficacy with scholars and practitioners, learned from students about their experiences at these institutions, and met with individuals at organizations such as the Ubuntu Education Fund and the National Research Foundation who are engaged in the work of supporting young people and conducting national research to measure South Africa’s progress toward meeting its changing social and economic demands.  The group participated in a three-day higher education conference.  Along the way students contextualized the struggle to oppose educational disparities through visits to sites influential in the struggle to end apartheid.