Edited by Ronald Barnett
The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university’s future. They consider the history of the university, its current status as an active player in local governments, cultures, and markets, and where these trajectories may lead.
What does it mean to be a university in the twenty-first century? What could the university become? What limitations do they face, and what opportunities might lie ahead? This volume in the International Studies in Higher Education series offers bold and imaginative possibilities.
August 2011 Hardback: 978-0-415-88192-0 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Universities and the Public Sphere – Coming soon!
Knowledge creation and state building in the era of globalization
Edited by Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika
Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge and innovation economy. The latest book in the International Studies in Higher Education series, Universities and the Public Sphere addresses the vital role of research universities as global public spheres, sites where public interaction, conversation and deliberation take place, where the nature of the State and private interests can be openly debated and contested. At a time of increased privatization, open markets, and government involvement in higher education, the book also addresses the challenges facing the university in its role as a global public sphere.
August 2011 Hardback: 978-0-415-87847-0 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
The Engaged University – New!
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement
By David Watson, Robert Hollister, Susan E. Stroud, Elizabeth Babcock The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems – combating poverty, improving public health, and restoring environmental quality. This book documents and analyzes this exciting trend through studies of civic engagement and social responsibility at twenty institutions worldwide.
2011 Hardback: 978-0-415-87465-6 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Edited by Bjorn Stensaker, Lee Harvey Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public about higher education performance and to help transform universities and colleges and improve their functioning. This edited collection provides a comparative analysis of the promises, perils and paradoxes of accountability, and the potential effect on power structures and higher education autonomy, trust and the legitimacy of the sector.
2010 Hardback: 978-0-415-87195-2 – Paperback: 978-0-415-87196-9 Read More | e–Inspection Copy
Edited by Melissa S. Anderson, Nicholas H. Steneck Encouraged by their institutions and governments and aided by advances in technology and communication, researchers increasingly pursue international collaborations with high hopes for scientific breakthroughs, intellectual stimulation, access to research equipment and populations, and the satisfaction of global engagement. International Research Collaborations considers what can and does go wrong in cross-national research collaborations, and how scientists can avoid these problems in order to create and sustain productive, mutually-enriching partnerships.
2010 Hardback: 978-0-415-87541-7 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Edited by Robin Sakamoto, David Chapman
Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions. These partnerships have involved the creation of branch campuses, joint research and technology initiatives, collaboration in strengthening institutional management, testing, faculty development efforts, collaboration in quality assurance, and sharing of technology. Cross-national collaborations are a growing financial and informational resource for universities, and non-Western schools are increasingly taking part.
2010 Hardback: 978-0-415-87648-3 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Edited by Celia Whitchurch, George Gordon
Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result of a broadening disciplinary base and increasing permeability between higher education and external environments.
The volume addresses the challenges faced by those responsible for the wellbeing of academic faculty and professional staff. International perspectives examine current practice against a background of rapidly changing policy contexts, focusing on the critical ‘people dimension’ of enhancing academic and professional activity, while also addressing national, socio-economic, and community agendas. Consideration is given to mainstream academic faculty and professional staff, researchers, library and information professionals, people with an interest in teaching and learning, and those involved in individual projects or institutional development.
2009 Hardback: 978-0-415-99090-5 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Edited by Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado “The editors of this volume have given the international higher education community a valuable resource as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. This book has the potential to serve as a tool for nation states, regional consortiums, and international organizations as they consider their roles in the regulation, direction, and funding of higher education. I highly recommend it as a text in graduate-level courses in higher education and international education and could make the case that international organizations use the book as a resource to better navigate the sometimes difficult landscape of working with and understanding higher education on the national, regional, and global levels.”–The Review of Higher Education, Volume 33, Number 4, Summer 2010, pp. 604-606
2009 Hardback: 978-0-415-99043-1 – Paperback: 978-0-415-89083-0 – Read More | Recommend to Librarian
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Edited by Jeroen Huisman “This text provides an exceptionally detailed account of the evolutionary nature of university governance in a variety of national settings.”–Journal for International and Global Studies
Essential reading for policy makers, institutional leaders, managers, advisors, and scholars in the field of higher education, International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education analyzes how the governance of higher education systems has evolved in recent years. This volume is an authoritative overview with contributions from authors from the U.K., the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Canada, the U.S. and Australia.
2009 Hardback: 978-0-415-98933-6 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole experience of higher education for all the interested parties from, presidents, rectors and vice-chancellors to first-term undergraduates.
Structuring Mass Higher Education examines the impact of this change upon the existing national structures of higher education. It also defines and highlights what makes an ‘elite’ university – something which institutions must strive for in order to gain their position as global players.
2008 Hardback: 978-0-415-42604-6 – Paperback: 978-0-415-88507-2 Read More | Recommend to Librarian
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