Public Policy for Academic Quality Analyses of Innovative Policy Ins
This volume summarizes a significant body of research systematically analyzing innovative external quality assurance policies in higher education around the world. It will be essential reading for policy makers, administrators and researchers alike. Over
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 30 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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David D. Dill · Maarja Beerkens Editors
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Editors Dr. David D. Dill University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC 27599-7090 USA
Dr. Maarja Beerkens University of Twente CHEPS 7500 AE Enschede Netherlands
ISSN 1571-0378 ISBN 978-90-481-3753-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3754-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3754-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942245 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is a product of the Public Policy for Academic Quality Research Program (PPAQ), a project based in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The major goal of the Research Program was to provide policymakers and other stakeholders in higher education analyses of innovative academic quality assurance policies designed to influence academic standards. These policy analyses attempt to offer assessmen
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