Concept information
Preferred term
postsecondary education
Definition(s)
- The next level of education beyond secondary education (high school). Postsecondary education, also called higher education, encompasses institutions of higher learning, such as universities, community colleges, professional schools, as well as technical institutes. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Postsecondary Education]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- access to higher education
- adult education
- adult literacy
- advanced degrees
- alternative admissions practices
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions
- Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in higher education
- Asian American studies
- athletics and diversity
- black studies
- black women's studies
- campus Balkanization and segregation
- classroom pedagogy and diversity in higher education
- college advising
- college choice
- college preparation
- college proximity
- college transferring
- community colleges
- Confucianism and higher education
- creating the intercultural higher education campus
- critical moments project in higher education
- diversity course requirements in colleges and universities
- diversity in medical schools
- diversity issues in community colleges
- educational benefits of diversity
- equity scorecard for higher education
- ethnic student organizations
- ethnic studies in higher education
- faculty diversity in colleges and universities
- first-generation college students
- founding of black colleges
- fraternities, sororities, and diversity
- free speech and diversity
- gender issues in higher education
- G.I. Bills
- Date: 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger
- higher education and diversity in South Africa
- higher education curriculum transformation
- Hispanic-serving institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Hong Kong Chinese students studying in the United States
- inclusive higher education for sexual and gender minorities
- intercultural universities in Mexico
- international college partnerships
- international students in colleges and universities
- lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues in higher education
- lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students: teacher preparation for diversity
- liberal arts education
- linguistically responsive teacher education
- living learning communities
- Mexican American studies/Chicana/o studies
- multiracial student issues in colleges and universities
- organizational context for promoting diversity in higher education
- overeducation
- proprietary colleges and diversity
- Puerto Rican studies
- racial/ethnic diversity in doctoral training programs
- referenda to ban race-conscious admissions
- religious orientation and diversity
- retention and diversity in higher education
- service learning
- single-sex colleges
- STEM subjects and diversity
- undergraduate readiness for diversity
- undocumented students in higher education
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