Leadership for World-Class Universities

Challenges for Developing Countries
Herausgeber: Altbach, Philip G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how 'world-class' thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income countries, which face special problems where higher education is expanding most rapidly.

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Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415800280
• ISBN-10: 0415800285
• Artikelnr.: 32087827

Autorenporträt

Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor and director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Goolam Mohamedbhai
Introduction, Philip G. Altbach
1. Strategic Planning for Higher Education, Fred M. Hayward and Daniel J.
Ncayiyana
2. Governing Universities in Times of Uncertainty and Change, Álvaro Rojas
and Andrés Bernasconi
3. The Funding of Universities in the Twenty-First Century, D. Bruce
Johnstone
4. Unlocking the Benefits of Higher Education Through Appropriate
Governance, David E. Bloom and Henry Rosovsky
5. Mission-Driven Higher Education in Emerging Academic Systems, Pedro
Rosso
6. Higher Education's Landscape of Internationalization, Philip G. Altbach
and Jane Knight
7. Where the Quality Discussion Stands: Strategies and Ambiguities, Liz
Reisberg
8. Global University Rankings and Their Impact, Nian Cai Liu and Ying Cheng
9. Fund-Raising as Institutional Advancement, Kai-ming Cheng
10. The Challenge of University Leadership in the Developing World, D.
Bruce Johnstone
11. Access and Equity, Liz Reisberg and David Watson
12. The Academic Profession: The Realities of Developing Countries, Philip
G. Altbach
13. The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities in Developing
Countries, Jamil Salmi