Topic: International issues
Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Research and innovation, Technology, Universities and the academic mission
The entrepreneurial university
A look at some institutions are coping with having to balance their traditional commitment to learning, basic research and community outreach with a demanding technology transfer mission. Roger L. Geiger and Creso Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2009)
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Equity and social justice, International issues, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A fresh look at what counts towards student access and success
Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher, eds., Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
The greater good of higher education
A review of Walter W. McMahon, Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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International issues, Performance assessment, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
A policy maker’s handbook
Richardson, R. and Martinez, M., Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases Across State Systems (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009).
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Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Students, Universities and the academic mission
Definitely not for loss
Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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At the beginning of May 2000, I found myself teaching at Université Montpellier 1 in the south of France, a few kilometres […]
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The challenge of identity: The experience of mixed race women in higher education
Indra Angeli Dewan, Recasting Race, Women of Mixed Heritage in Further Education (Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and Sterling, USA: Trentham Books, 2008)
READ MORECorporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Politics, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Making decisions that endure for decades
Paulo Santiago, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri and Elena Arnal. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society. Volume 1: Special Features: Governance, Funding, Quality; and Volume 2: Special Features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation. Paris: OECD, 2008. 728 pages.
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Global souls and youth moves
Youth Moves, an anthology edited by Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi (Routledge, 2008)
READ MORECross-cultural Challenges in Teaching International Graduate Students
Globalization has embraced the university, as it has sectors, owing largely to easy travel and a digital infrastructure that provides information instantly. […]
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