University Dynamics and European Integration

The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform pla

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UNIVERSITY DYNAMICS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 19 Series Editors Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES, Matosinhos, 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.

The titles published in the series are listed at the end of this volume.

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University Dynamics and European Integration Edited by Peter Maassen University of Oslo, Norway and

Johan P. Olsen University of Oslo, Norway

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

ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5970-4 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5971-1 (e-book)

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

Printed on acid-free paper

All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer 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.

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

List of Contributors

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Preface

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PART 1: Chapter 1

PART 2: Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5 Chapter 6

PART 3: Chapter 7

Peter Maassen and Johan P. Olsen INTRODUCTION European Debates on the Knowledge Institution: The Modernization of the University at the European Level Johan