ABSTRACT
This chapter examines university images among boys from the Peruvian highlands. It focuses on three influences on their expectations of future earnings: information access, secondary school achievement, and indigenous status as indicated by language use. The chapter explores Quechua-speaking students. It also examines perceptions of higher education in Peru, comprehensive secondary schooling followed by comprehensive university entrance for nearly half of all secondary graduates, has been viewed as socially integrative by its political leaders. The role of education in the integration of Peruvian society has become particularly central in the past twenty years, with the demise of clientelistic, oligarchic relationships. The chapter also explores further the nature of Cusco students' images of the university. It considers three key indicators of exposure to higher education information: indigeneity and language, academic success, and access to news media.
