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INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

New Publications

  Casazza, Martha E., and Laura Bauer. Access, Opportunity, and Success: Keeping the Promise of Higher Education. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. 202 pp (hb). ISBN 0-275-98965-8. Address: Praeger Publishers, POB 5006, Westport, CT 06881, USA.

Focusing on the growing number of nontraditional students in US higher education, this volume provides insights and proposals concerning how to enhance access and also retain students so that they can complete their degrees. The method used in this volume is oral history.

  Eisenman, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 280 pp. $45 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8261-3. Address: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

This book analyzes how societal pressures, norms concerning the role of women, and an emergent women's movement interacted with regard to higher education for women in the United States in the post–World War II period. Emphasis is placed on research concerning the need for women's higher education, advocacy by a number of women's organizations, and policy recommendations from the President's Commission on the Status of Women. The book concludes with a discussion of the role of continuing education for women.

  Enders, Jürgen, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, and Don Westerheijden, eds. The European Higher Education and Research Landscape 2020. Enschede, Netherlands: CHEPS, 2005. 218 pp. (pb). ISBN 90-365-2296-X. Address: CHEPS, Box 217, 7500 Enschede, Netherlands.

The core of this volume is a Delphi study of 164 respondents concerning the future of European higher education and research in 2020. The respondents react to several models of future higher education developments, including highly centralized systems and others. Experts comment on the scenarios in short essays at the end of the book.

  Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 710 pp. $28 (hb). ISBN 978-0-618-57458-1. Address: Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 215 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10003, USA.

This detailed and engaging study of admissions policies at three of America's elite universities discusses how policies evolved over time and what the motivations were behind the changes. Karabel shows how these three influential institutions discriminated against racial and ethnic minorities, including Jews, African Americans, and Asians for many decades. He also discusses how the universities defended the interests of the traditional elites who dominated the student bodies until quite recently. This book is not only useful in understanding the elite sector of American higher education but also focuses on how social class works in American society.

  Lechuga, Vicente M. The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession: The Culture of Faculty at For-Profit Colleges and Universities. New York: Routledge, 2006. 222 pp. $70 (hb). ISBN 0-415 –97699-5. Address: Routledge Publishers, 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA.

Perhaps the first full-scale study of faculty roles in for-profit postsecondary institutions, this book includes case studies of four schools. Interviewing 52 faculty members, the author deals in his analysis with the issues of working conditions, faculty culture and roles, satisfaction of faculty, and related themes. The analysis is done by institution and generalizations are then developed.

  Li, Guofang, and Gulbahar H. Beckett, eds. "Strangers of the Academy": Asian Women Scholars in Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2005. 326 pp. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-57922-121-1. Address: Stylus Publishing, 22883 Quicksilver Dr., Sterling, VA 20166, USA.

This book consists mainly of autobiographical essays by Asian American women scholars in the field of education reflecting on their experiences working at universities in the United States. Problems of language, socialization into the academic profession, teaching issues, and other topics are considered.

  Lyall, Katherine, and Kathleen R. Sell. The True Genius of America at Risk: Are We Losing Our Public Universities to De Facto Privatization? Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. 208 pp. (hb). ISBN 0-275-98949-6. Address: Praeger Publishers, POB 5007, Westport, CT 06881, USA.

This book looks at trends in funding for public higher education by the states in the United States and notes the downward general trends. The consequences of the inevitable privatization of public higher education are analyzed—for access, quality, the future of research, the public role of universities, and other factors. The authors are critical of the trend toward privatization.

  Mirandé, Alfredo. The Stanford Law Chronicles: Doin' Time on the Farm. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 280 pp. $30 (pb). ISBN 0-268-02284-4. Address: University of Notre Dame Press, 310 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.

This book is an autobiographical account by a Hispanic former professor of sociology who attended Stanford Law School and obtained a law degree. The focus is on the author's rather alienating experiences. The insights concerning an elite American law school are interesting.

  Nettles, Michael T., and Catherine M. Millett. Three Magic Letters: Getting to Ph.D . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 329 pp. $42 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8232-X. Address: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.

Perhaps the most comprehensive research-based study of American doctoral students ever conducted, this book discusses all aspects of the doctoral student experience. Among the themes are the admissions process, financing doctoral study, research training and productivity, rate of progress and degree completion, and some others. The study is based on more than 9,000 responses to a survey.

  Rhoads, Robert A., and Carlos Alberto Torres, eds. The University, State, and Market. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. 360 pp. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-5169-2. Address: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

A critical analysis of higher education trends in the Americas, this volume focuses on how broad globalization trends have affected higher education in the region. Most of the book deals with Latin America, although there are several chapters considering the United States as well as several general chapters. Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil are considered in several chapters. There is also a consideration of how global markets affect higher education. The authors in this volume take a critical stance regarding globalization trends.

  Schalk, David L. War and the Ivory Tower. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 258 pp. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8032-9343-7. Address: University of Nebraska Press, 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.

While the focus of this book is on the role of intellectuals in the struggles concerning the Vietnam War in the United States and the Algerian War in France, there is much relevance to the universities, since a significant part of these social and intellectual movements played themselves out at the universities in both countries.

  Smart, John, ed. Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research, volume 20. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2005. 630 pp. $179 (hb). ISBN 1-4020-3277-3. Address: Springer Publishers, POB 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Now in its 20th year of publication, this valuable annual publication features research-based analyses of higher education topics. The essays are long enough to permit detailed discussion of the topics. This year's book includes such topics as professors as knowledge workers in the global economy, student choice and rational thought, the causes of public college tuition inflation, faculty governance, for-profit degree-granting colleges, Arab higher education governance, and others. While most of the chapters focus on the United States, the themes are internationally relevant for the most part.

  Teichler, Ulrich. Hochschulstructuren in Umbruch: Eine Bilanz der Reformdynamik seit vier Jahrzehnten. [Transformation of university structures: Four decades of reform]. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Campus Verlag, 2005. 369 pp. (pb). ISBN 3-593-37976-7. Address: Campus Verlag, Kurfürstenstr. 49, 60486 Frankfurt/M, Germany.

A detailed analysis of how German higher education has organizationally changed in the past four decades, this volume deals with themes such as the differentiation of the German academic system, the development of the Fachhochschulen (vocational institutions) and other innovations, the role of the universities in their regions, and some others.