Critical Vocabulary around Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education

EQUITY: COVID, race, class, gender, fairness, equality, access, opportunity, level playing field, bias, diversity, decolonizing, debt, adjunctification, pipeline, Indigeneity, sustainability

ELITISM: COVID, hierarchy, selection, racism, meritocracy, class stratification, race sorting, ranking, tiers, structures, altac, tacit knowledge, lower ed, privileged poor, white supremacy, classism, ivy league, private,

PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION: COVID, CUNY, institutionalization, public good, community college, free college, Black university, critical university studies, austerity, queer studies