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INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

New Publications

  Albornoz, Orlando. Academic Populism: Higher Education under State Control. Vol. 1: the Roots of Academic Populism; Vol. 2: Academic Populism in the Making: The Venezuelan Case. Caracas, Venezuela: Bibliotechnology Ediciones, 2005. 947 pp. (pb). ISBN 980-00-2248-1. Address: Bibliotechnology Ediciones, Apdo. No. 50.061, Caracas 1050-A, Venezuela.

Albornoz, one of Latin America's senior sociologists, has provided a two-volume compilation of some of his essays on higher education, mainly focusing on his country of Venezuela. The broad theme is academic populism and how it is playing out in the context of contemporary Venezuela. There are discussions of academic freedom, the Venezuelan revolution and its impact on education, the role of ideology, elites, and higher education, and other topics.

  Alemneh, Teshome Yizengaw. The Ethiopian Higher Education: Creating Space for Reform. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Teshome Yizengaw, 2007. 247 pp. 60 birr (pb). ISBN 978-99944-4-6. E-mail: ekrena@ethionet.et.

One of the first full-scale analyses of higher education in Ethiopia, this book provides discussion of such topics as the basic structure and direction of the higher education system; challenges such as governance, equity and access, quality, research; and others. A discussion of relations with donor organizations, a key issue for African higher education, is also included. Current statistics are provided.

  Bacchetti, Ray, and Thomas Ehrlich, eds. Reconnecting Education and Foundations: Turning Good Intentions into Educational Capital. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 501 pp. $55 (hb). ISBN 0-7879-8818-9. Web site: www.josseybass.com.

A discussion of the role of philanthropic foundations in the United States and their role in helping education at all levels, this book features a section on higher education. Specific foundation-assisted projects are analyzed as well as relevant broader issues.

  Baumgartl, Bernd, Fatma Mizkaci, and Dean Owen, eds. From Here to There: Mileposts of European Higher Education. Vienna: Navreme, 2007. 191 pp. No charge (pb). ISBN 978-9989-50-049-5. Web site: www.navreme.net.

Focusing in part on trends in higher education development in eastern Europe, this book also includes chapters on e-learning in Europe, the role of women, entrepreneurial education in Latin America, the accreditation of experiential education, and others.

  Fisher, Donald, et al. Canadian Federal Policy and Postsecondary Education. Vancouver, Canada: Center for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia, 2006. 191 pp. C$30 (pb). ISBN 978-0-88865-747-3. Web site: chet.educ.ubc.ca.

A short but reasonably comprehensive overview of Canadian higher education policy, this book focuses on the relationship between the provinces and the central government in Canada's complex federal system. Specific attention is given to Quebec as an exceptional case.

  Garrod, Andrew, and Robert Kilkenny, eds. Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell their Life Stories. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7384-5. Web site: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

The life stories of 14 Asian American students who attended Dartmouth College, one of America's elite schools, are featured in this book. The national backgrounds include Korea, India, China, Japan, and other countries. Personal, family, campus, and educational experiences are recounted.

  Gasman, Marybeth. Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 267 pp. (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8604-X. Web site: www.press. jhu.edu.

The United Negro College Fund is an organization established following World War II to help support black colleges and universities in the United States. This volume provides a historical analysis of how the organization worked for its goals in the contest of the Cold War and the civil rights movement and its efforts to move beyond its white base of donors.

  Geiger, Roger L., et al., eds. Future of the American Public Research University. Rotterdam, Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007. 244 pp. $49 (pb). ISBN 978-90-8790-047-2. Web site: www.sensepublishers.com.

A comprehensive analysis of the American public research university, this book focuses on central themes facing these key institutions. Among the topics are the multiple missions of public research universities, financing issues, the role of teaching and learning, the service function, knowledge production in public research universities, and competition and the private universities.

  Good, David, Suzanne Greenwald, Rox Cox, and Megan Goldman, eds. University Collaboration for Innovation: Lessons from the Cambridge-MIT Institute. Rotterdam, Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007. 224 pp. $49 (pb). ISBN 978-90-8790-039-7. Web site: www.sensepublishers.com.

In 2000, the UK government established the Cambridge-MIT Institute to link these two universities for the purpose of bringing MIT's practices to the United Kingdom. This assessment of some of the work of the institute considers such issues as student exchanges, the role of entrepreneurship, curriculum design, interdisciplinary programs, and curricular development in graduate study.

  Gumport, Patricia J., ed. Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 382 pp. (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8615-5. Web site: www.press. jhu.edu.

With a comprehensive perspective on the field of sociology of higher education, the authors review both the literature and the realities of key aspects of higher education. The discussions are largely focused on the United States and American research literature. Among the themes are colleges and universities as organizations, academic departments, the impact of college, the academic profession, higher education policy, and diversity issues.

  Kogan, Maurice, and Ulrich Teichler, eds. Key Challenges to the Academic Profession. Kassel, Germany: International Center for Higher Education Research, 2007. 211 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-3-934377-59-2. Web site: www.uni-kassel.de/incher/.

Published in cooperation with UNESCO's Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, this book provides case studies from Japan, the United States, Norway, Mexico, Australia, and China. In addition, there are analyses of changing patterns of academic work, university management, the academic profession, and other themes.

  Masssen, Peter, and Johan P. Olsen, eds. University Dynamics and European Integration. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007. 245 pp. $139 (hb). ISBN 13-978-1-4020-5970-4. Web site: www.springer.com.

An analysis of how European higher education trends, stimulated mainly by the Bologna process, is affecting European universities, this volume studies institutional developments. A series of chapters discusses different approaches to institutional arrangements, including hierarchy, democratic visions, and a rule-governed academic community.

  MacTaggart, Terrence, ed. Academic Turnarounds: Restoring Vitality to Challenges American Colleges and Universities. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. 129 pp. (hb). ISBN 978-0-275-98806-7. Web site: www.praeger.com.

An analysis of the process of "turnaround" for struggling American academic institutions, this book features discussions of key themes by experienced academic leaders. Among the themes discussed are marketing and branding of institutions, financial issues, academic revitalization, presidential leadership, the role of donors, and trustees and accreditors.

  Nelson, Stephen J. Leaders in the Labyrinth: College Presidents and the Battleground of Creeds and Convictions. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. 228 pp. $64.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-275-99792-2. Web site: www.praeger.com.

Based mainly on interviews with American university presidents, this book discusses the challenges of leadership and the themes that the interviews presented. Among these are university relations with society, fund raising, communicating the core academic ideals, and other topics.

  Rappaport, Ann, and Sarah Hammond Creighton. Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 372 pp. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-262-68166-7. Web site: www.mitpress.mit.edu.

Focusing on the authors' experience at Tufts University in the United States, this book provides a practical guide to how universities can be environmentally conscious. Most of the volume is concerned with how universities can conserve energy and focus on the environment, including reducing emissions, saving energy on campus, and other issues.

  Rothblatt, Sheldon. Education's Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800?2006. Oxford, UK: Symposium Books, 2007. 350 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-1-873927-80-9. Web site: www.symposium-books.co.uk.

This book is a set of essays by Sheldon Rothblatt, a prominent American historian of higher education, around the broad theme of merit in higher education. Among the topics discussed are affirmative action, elites, the role of examinations, the relation of schools to universities, and others.

  Smart, John, ed. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Vol. 22. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007. 611 pp. $189 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4020-5665-9. Web site: www.springer.com.

This annual compilation of research-based essays, now in its 22nd year, is one of the most valuable sources of research reviews. Written for an American audience and focusing on US literature for the most part, the essays provide comprehensive overviews of key themes. Among the topics included in this 22nd edition are the role of prestige in higher education, accountability and assessment, the Pell (student loan) program, hiring faculty of color in US higher education, academic work in community colleges, and others.

  Soares, Joseph A. The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. 236 pp. (pb). ISBN 10-0-8047-5638-4. Web site: www.sup.org.

One of a growing number of critiques of the admissions policies of elite American universities, this volume focuses on Yale University, but it has implications for the entire elite sector. Sociologist Soares argues that meritocratic norms in admission are compromised by social class, family income, and whether parents of the applicant or other relatives have attended the institution. Reforms are suggested to make the system more meritocratic.

  Teichler, Ulrich. Die Internationalisierung der Hochschulen: Neue Herausforderungen und Strategien [The Internationalization of Higher Education: New Challenges and Strategies]. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus Verlag, 2007. 359 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-3-593-38346-0. Web site: www.campus.de.

A multifaceted discussion of internationalization, this volume features essays on such themes as foreign study and academic mobility, the evaluation of student mobility in Europe (stressing the impact of the Erasmus program), evaluation of specific exchange programs, statistics concerning internationalization, and others.

New Publications from the American Council on Education
The American Council on Education is the main coordinating organization for US colleges and universities, with more than 1,600 affiliated institutions. ACE is concerned with international higher education issues. These three new publications will be of interest to an international audience.

• A Brief Guide to U.S. Higher Education. (2007). 63 pp. $25 (pb). This concise publication describes how US higher education is organized, the nature of institutional governance, the role of the faculty, and student issues. Its purpose is to provide basic information for an international audience.
• Jane Wellman. Apples and Oranges in the Flat World: A Layperson's Guide to International Comparisons of Postsecondary Education. (2007). 37 pp. $20 (pb). An essay discussing common international comparisons in such fields as educational performance, production of scientists and engineers, finances, spending on science and technology, student mobility, and international rankings of institutions, this book attempts to make sense of commonly used comparisons. Relevant statistics are provided.
• Madeleine F. Green, et al. Venturing Abroad: Delivering US. Degrees Through Overseas Branch Campuses and Programs. (2007). 55 pp. $25 (pb). A brief overview of the issues facing US academic institutions when offering offshore degrees, including partnerships, governmental regulations, accreditation and quality control, and others.