International Handbook of Higher Education

Higher education is a truly global activity, built around the intersections of international knowledge networks in which institutions, faculty and students explore, create and share knowledge. Virtually all colleges and universities stem from a common org

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Springer International Handbooks of Education VOLUME 18

International Handbook of Higher Education Part One: Global Themes and Contemporary Challenges

Edited by

James J.F. Forest U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA

and

Philip G. Altbach Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 1-4020-4011-3 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4011-5 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-4012-1 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4012-2 (e-book)

Published by Springer P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

Printed on acid-free paper

First published 2006, reprinted 2007

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE: GLOBAL THEMES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES Acknowledgments 1 2 3

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Introduction Philip G. Altbach and James J. F. Forest

1

The Academic Profession J¨urgen Enders

5

Accountability and Quality Assurance: New Issues for Academic Inquiry Elaine El-Khawas

23

Curricula in International Perspective Lisa R. Lattuca

39

Doctoral Education: Present Realities and Future Trends Philip G. Altbach

65

Higher Education Finance: Trends and Issues Arthur M. Hauptman

83

For-Profit Higher Education: U.S. Tendencies, International Echoes Kevin Kinser and Daniel C. Levy

107

Globalization and the University: Realities in an Unequal World Philip G. Altbach

121

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Table of Contents

Governance and Administration: Organizational and Structural Trends Barbara Sporn

141

History of Universities Harold Perkin

159

Internationalization: Concepts, Complexities and Challenges Jane Knight

207

Higher Education Management: Challenges and Strategies George Keller

229

Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII Martin Trow

243

The Private Fit in the Higher Education Landscape Daniel C. Levy

281

Beyond Private Gain: The Public Benefits of Higher Education David E. Bloom, Matthew Hartley, and Henry Rosovsky

293

Research and Scholarship Grant Harman

309

Student Politics: Activism and Culture Philip G. Altbach

329

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education James J. F. Forest

347

Rhetoric or Reality? Technology in Borderless Higher Education Svava Bjarnason

377

About the Editors

393

About the Contributors

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Table of Contents

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PART TWO: REGIONS AND COUNTRIES Preface to Volume Two

xi

SECTION 1 REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 20 21 22 23

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Higher Education in the Arab World Linda Herrera

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Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe Peter Sco