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New Publications
Based on case studies of 15 community colleges in the United States, this volume discusses such themes as access, training for information technology certification, counseling students in community colleges, credit systems, and others. The commitment of the book is ensuring that US community colleges continue to provide access to lower income and minority populations. Since community colleges educate just under half the total student population in the US and they provide access to students who could not otherwise participate in postsecondary education, they are of great importance.
The number of women's colleges in the United States has dropped from 250 to around 60 since the 1960s. This book discusses how the remaining women's institutions have adapted to changing circumstances by analyzing the experiences of a group of women's institutions. Included are colleges that have become coeducational or have closed, and institutions that have remained women-only.
An analysis of the role of the faculty in American higher education, this book discusses the tenure system, faculty governance issues, on-line education and the professoriate, academic freedom, and related issues. The author, a former general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, brings both personal experience and data to the discussion.
This book stems from a multiyear study of large public universities in the United States sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. The overarching concern of the study was the fragmentation of the modern university into many parts, and without a clear unity of mission and direction. The focus here is on implementing strategies that will ensure this unity. Among the topics considered are strategic direction and decentralization, the role of faculty in governance, quality control, and others. Several case studies are provided.
This doctoral dissertation discusses quality assurance practices in Hungary. Based on a survey of selected Hungarian universities, the study discusses the arrangements for quality assurance and especially how academic institutions manage and respond to governmental policies.
Hong Kong is a particularly interesting place to study academic freedom. Now part of China, but with a special status and with a long tradition of Western-style higher education, academic freedom is a kind of litmus test of how academic freedom can be protected in the Asian context. Based on interviews with academics and university administrators, and focusing on several flashpoints of academic controversy, this volume examines how the academic community has dealt with threats to academic freedom.
The underlying premise of this book is that academic freedom in the United States is under threat following the events of September 11. Some of the essays discuss broader academic freedom issues while other focus more directly on the implications of September 11.
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the development of private higher education in Poland in the post-Communist period. Information concerning the history of higher education, changes in the legal structure, market forces, and the strategic responses of higher education to these changes is provided.
Access remains one of the central challenges for American higher education. This book provides a detailed analysis of a range of access issues in the context of the experience of California. Among the themes discussed are the role of K-12 education in higher education access, equity issues and access, the role of community colleges and the transfer process from community colleges to four-year institutions, and others.
This comprehensive overview of the nature and practice of corruption in education at all levels provides definitions, examples of corrupt practices, and a discussion of implications. Specific issues such as private tutoring, academic credentials, and examinations are discussed. Guidelines for preventing corruption are provided.
A series of essays by some of Europe's most thoughtful higher education scholars considers broadly the European higher education landscape as the Bologna process continues. Among the themes considered are the future of public higher education, European universities and global competition, the role of multinational universities, adaptation of university governance structures, and others.
An update of research published in 1983, this book examines how the British government relates to research sponsorship and funding in an area of health policy. It looks at how government develops its research priorities and funding patterns. It is unusual in its depth of analysis of governmental decision-making concerning research.
An analysis and defense of liberal education in American higher education, this book focuses on the experience of the University of Chicago, an institution with a strong commitment to liberal education and which developed many of the key concepts associated with it. The author builds a model for contemporary liberal education.
Faculty members are America's two-year community colleges are an under researched part of the academic profession although more than a quarter of students attend these institutions. This book focuses on the role of faculty in institutional management and governance, part-time faculty, and the use of information technology for instruction, The context of the study relates to neo-liberal trends in the economy.
An extended argument for the inclusion of service as a key part of the work of the academic profession, this book discusses various definitions of service and looks at how professors in three countries (the UK, Canada, and the US) consider it. Service to the university and to society are discussed. The perspectives of how academics look at service is particularly interesting.
A highly critical examination of Japanese higher education, this book takes as its analytical focus the idea of ¡°exchange of gifts" as a way of analyzing higher education and the ritualized relations between teacher and students, the government and the universities, and others. Attention is paid to the examination system, the bureaucracy of the educational system, and others.
Focusing on Catholic universities and colleges in the United States in the context of the declining numbers of priests, nuns and brothers on Catholic campuses, this book analyzes the challenges facing these institutions. Among the themes discusses are the essential mission and culture of Catholic higher education, faculty and students in the Catholic intellectual tradition, campus religious activities, the institutional culture, and related issues. Specific recommendations for the future are provided.
A research study based on interviews with doctoral students and faculty supervisors, this book focuses on the learning process and on ¡°knowledge making"—how students are inducted into the research culture and how they do their work. While the data are from Australia, this study is relevant to understanding doctoral education internationally.
A study of the activities of foreign universities and higher education providers in India, it is noted that while recruiting of students to go abroad is growing rapidly, the number of articulation agreements and the numbers of foreign institutions with a presence in India have both declined between 2004 and 2006.
An extended essay on the academic profession in the United States. The author writes engagingly about the role of teaching, research, academic freedom, the professor and institutional governance, and related issues. The role of the academic as a public intellectual is also considered.
A multifaceted discussion of two key themes—research oriented (world-class) universities, and ranking of universities. These two related subjects are analyzed by authors from around the world. Among the themes discussed are the unintended consequences of building world-class universities, the features of a world-class university, the definition of quality in science, and others. A half-dozen chapters discuss rankings of academic institutions, both internationally and within countries.
A detailed analysis of how British higher education is governed, this volume focuses on the interplay between government and the universities—the ¡°steering" mechanisms of the state—and how the universities reacted. The past two decades have seen dramatic changes, including the massification of higher education in the UK, changing philosophical approaches to supporting the universities and others. This book relates these changes to both government and academic policy—and the interplay between the two.
A wide ranging discussion of the training of academics and scientists, this volume includes discussions of the role of the academic profession in the knowledge society, changing funding for junior scholars, changing doctoral programs, academic career structures. The analysis is mostly European-based with some comparisons to the United States.
An in-depth analysis of the culture of several case study American universities, this book examines the theme of trust in academic relationships and academic work. In a rapidly changing higher education environment, the author feels that the future of the university depends in part on relationships based on trust.
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Bailey, Thomas and Vanessa Smith Morest, eds. Defending the Community College Equity Agenda. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 328 pp. (hb) $45. ISBN 0-8018-8447-0. Address: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218, USA.
