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This book explores the constellation of external and internall factors that contribute to organizational responses to diversity in post-secondary education.

Examining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship.

The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors that influence that change, and to explore the underlying process of change.

A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.

This study explores the identity construction of socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students who enter an elite university.

Internationalising higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This book addresses how the US federal government affected the development, institutionalisation and diffusion of this change process from 1958-1988.

How virtual post-secondary educational organizations (popularly called virtual universities) function is the central subject of this new book based on a comparative case study of five US-based institutions.

By analysing two black national higher education student political organisations, this book analyses their ideologies and politics and their intellectual, political and social determinants.

This book explores the influence of collaborative relationships among dual career couples on innovation and productivity. It proposes a new definition of egalitarianism.

Concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.

Billie Dziech wrote "The Lecherous Professor" in 1984; articulating the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. This work reflects on a variety of aspects of sexual harassment, its litigation and law.

The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over one-third of all US college students. This book presents the results of an unprecedented national study of the community college professoriate.

Higher education relies on the philanthropy of many individuals to sustain and expand its intellectual endeavors at home and abroad. Motivations for philanthropy to higher education coalesce around a myriad of factors and these motivations encompass the scope of this work.

The topic of university and college teaching in the study of higher education is the focus of this text. Providing a broad perspective, it examines preparation, assessment, and reward from cross-cultural perspectives and explores the cultural and social influences that affect these dimensions.

Drawing from a case study of the Universidad Nacional Aut'onoma de Mexico, this work analyses the connection between political processes and change in higher education.

An interesting study of the german higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the post-unification period.

A comprehensive analysis of higher education in Canada describing its development since 1945 according to provincial/territorial jurisdiction. The 20 contributors discuss the evolution of postsecondary education within the contexts of political, cultural, and social dimensions, highlighting the dif

This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics companies play in the process.

This book draws on the perspectives of nearly 20 000 faculties from around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research.

Teferra focuses on scientific research and communication in Africa. Included are chapters on scientific journals, secondary avenues of scientific communication, and funding issues. There is also a focus on the challenges and opportunities of scientific communication in African universities.

This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy.

A comprehensive account of Chinese higher education during the modern period in the GARLAND STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. The author examines the first 100 years of the development of Chinese universities, emphasising the cultural patterns that shaped them in contrast to the development of Western universities.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy, and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in select emerging market countries.

These essays describe the Korean higher education system, provide data heretofore unavailable in the English language, and present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues in that country's higher education system.

Examines the development of American study abroad, looking at how negative beliefs about international exchanges have limited its potential, and what can be done to reverse the trend. A historical and rhetorical analysis of international study in the US, this book contributes to an understanding of how the modern situation has come about.

As South Africa moved into a new era of its history, there were major challenges facing the post-apartheid government with regard to the reform of higher education. This book analyzes these challenges, highlighting key constraints in the reform process. It is presented in a narrative style.

This book, the first ever overview of the subject, traces the history of the government of higher education from the middle ages through the 1950's and concludes with a look towards the future.

This publication features the impressions and experiences of 12 foreign exchange students who have written about their sojourn at Dartmouth College in the U.S.A. They convey a perspective on American college life not seen by most American students.