Department

NUMBER 52, SUMMER 2008

New Publications

  Bousquet, Marc. How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 280 pp. $22 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8147-9975-8. Web site: www.nyupress.org.

A detailed analysis of faculty unionization, the problems of part-time and other teachers at the lower end of the academic hierarchy in the United States, the issues facing students and their efforts to unionize in higher education, this book takes a partisan approach to these themes. It is, however, one of the few books to discuss the problems faced by a large number of professionals in American colleges and universities.

  Buller, Jeffrey L. The Essential Academic Dean: A Practical Guide to College Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 431 pp. $30 (pb). ISBN 978-0-470-18086-0. Web site: www.josseybass.com.

Written from an American perspective, this book provides a thorough discussion of the role of the academic dean in higher education. The author, an experienced dean himself, provides a discussion of the role of dean and practical suggestions for successful performance. Among the themes discussed are the constituents of a dean, the dean's staff, leadership, career paths, and related topics.

  Council on Higher Education. Review of Higher Education in South Africa: Selected Themes. Pretoria, South Africa: Council on Higher Education, 2007. 188 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-1-919856-61-2. Web site: www.che.ac.za.

A reconsideration of policy areas in South African higher education, this volume provides a research-based analysis of key sectors. Among the themes analyzed in the book are public funding and its problems, information and communication technology, institutional governance and public accountability, institutional culture, access issues for adult learners, and problems of change in higher education.

  De Wit, Hans, Pawan Agarwal, Mohsen Elmahdy Said, Molatlhegi T. Sehoole, and Muhammed Sirozi, eds. The Dynamics of International Student Circulation in a Global Context. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2008. 266 pp. $49 (pb). ISBN 978-90-8790-258-2. Web site: www.sensepublishers.com.

Student mobility is the most important part of the internationalization of higher education. This volume is the first one that carefully analyzes student mobility mainly in developing countries. Case studies of India, Indonesia, Egypt, and South Africa are included, along with general considerations of global student circulation and a discussion of the impact of the EU's Bologna and Lisbon strategies.

  Epstein, Debbie, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi, and Susan Wright, eds. Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 2007. 395 pp. (hb). ISBN 978-0-415-96378. Web site: www.routledge.com/education.

The focus of this volume of the World Yearbook of Higher Education is higher education. The chapters are unified by a critical perspective on higher education developments worldwide. Among the themes discussed are internationalization, transnational academic flows of both students and faculty, private higher education, GATS and WTO, academic leadership, and others.

  Kramer, Gary L, and Associates. Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 458 pp. $45 (hb). ISBN 978-1-933371-24-5. Web site: www.josseybass.com.

A practical volume written from a research perspective, this book discusses how to enhance student success in American higher education. Among the main themes are communicating expectations to students, providing adequate student services, fostering student development by ensuring that student services and faculty focus on student learning, and providing support services to enhance student retention.

  Magna Charta Observatory. The Management of University Integrity. Bologna, Italy: Bononia University Press, 2008. 157 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-88-7395-319-7. Web site: www.buponline.com.

With a series of papers on the broad issues of corruption and malpractice in higher education, this book discusses broad European issues and includes a case study of Egypt. The volume one in the series of analyses by the Magna Charta Observatory, a European agency aimed at improving higher education.

  Musselin, Christine. Les universitaires. Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 2008. 119 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7071-5060-8. Web site: www.collectionreperes.com.

This book provides a synthesis of the existing research on academics: Who are they? How do they work? How do they enter the academic profession and what are their potential career developments? How do academic labor markets work in different countries? Data on three countries (France, Germany, USA) representative of three different academic traditions are systematically provided.

  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Higher Education in Kazakhstan. Paris: OECD, 2007. 222 pp. (pb). USBN: 978-92-64-03316-0. Web site: www.oecd.org/publishing.

A thorough study of higher education in Kazakhstan conducted by the OECD and World Bank for the series of review of higher education, this book provides excellent data concerning all aspects of higher education in the country as well as an evaluation of such themes as financing, labor market relevance, internationalization, governance, and quality.

  Savicki, Victor, ed. Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation: Theory, Research, and Application in International Education. Herndon, VA: Stylus, 2008. 375 pp. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1579222666. Web site: www.styluspub.com.

The field of intercultural education is aimed at improving the communication and contacts among people of different backgrounds. This book focuses mainly on American study abroad programs and international students as they related to the United States and analyzes on the improvement of intercultural experiences. The book provides a combination of case studies of specific programs and broader discussion.

  Smith, Wilson, and Thomas Bender, eds. American Higher Education Transformed: 1940?2005. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 521 pp. $80 (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8671-3. Web site: www.press.jhu.ed.

A thoughtful and engaging collection of documents and analyses of many of the key issues that relate to the development of American higher education since 1940, this book brings both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Among the themes considered are the curriculum, liberal arts, the academic profession, the academic disciplines, rights of students, academic administration, and others. The editors have selected parts of documents, chapters, and articles to illustrate the key themes.

  Tiwari, Shubha, ed. Education in India. Vol. 4. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007. 292 pp. Rs. 550 (hb). ISBN 978-81-269-0850-9. Web site: www.atlanticbooks.com.

A collection of essays mostly focusing on higher education in India, this volume considers such topics as the Indian role in GATS, teacher-student relationships, teacher education, academic assessment, gender disparities, and others.

  Vest, Charles M. The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web: Governments, the Private Sector and the Emerging Meta-University. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 140 pp. $24.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-520-25253-0.

A former president of MIT, Charles Vest is well placed to discuss many of the key challenges facing research universities. This book, based on lectures Vest gave at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses such themes as the challenges facing basic research and related issues in science and technology. His discussion of MIT's Open Course Ware initiative is particularly interesting.