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. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that utilizes its autonomous discretion to institute innovations that build on its potential so as to overcome adverse situations.
This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in app...
Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This text addresses how the US federal government affected the development, institutionalization and diffusion of this change process across the higher education system from 1958 to 1988.
Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This text addresses how the US federal government affected...
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.
An interesting study of the German higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the pos...
This study explores the identity construction of socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students who enter an elite university. This critical ethnography gathered qualitative data about the twenty-three participants through non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. Faculty, staff, and administrators were also interviewed.
This study explores the identity construction of socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students who enter an elite university. This critic...
Missions matter. In the 1990s, the majority of liberal arts colleges found themselves operating in a perilous environment with declining resources. Many drifted from their traditional missions and began offering programmes whose sole purpose was to appeal to prospective students. The result on many campuses was a fragmenting of purpose and a diminishing of institutional life. The study looks at three institutions - LeMoyne-Owen, Olivet and Tusculem Colleges. The research provides a window into this complex, fascinating and ultimately powerful process. The accounts suggest a clear mission is...
Missions matter. In the 1990s, the majority of liberal arts colleges found themselves operating in a perilous environment with declining resources. Ma...
The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. However, community colleges and their instructors have received little attention in either the academic or popular press.
The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. How...
