Leadership for World-Class Universities : Challenges for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415800297 | 0415800293
Edition: 1stFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 11/9/2010
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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. Readers will benefit from best practice advice offered by distinguished international contributors who have excelled by thinking globally without losing sight of their respective national and local environments. Their essays are grounded in empirical research and written to engage the reader, stimulate reflection and enhance performance. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income countries, which face special problems where higher education is expanding most rapidly.Key themes include:strategic planning governance of academic institutions the role of the academic profession fundraising student access and equity the impact of globalizationLeadership for World-Class Universities is a valuable resource for senior university administrators. At the heart of this volume is a focus on how academic leaders can work towards resolving the complex issues facing universities today.
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. viii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Strategic Planning for Higher Education | p. 8 |
| Governing Universities in Times of Uncertainty and Change | p. 33 |
| The Funding of Universities in the Twenty-First Century | p. 52 |
| Unlocking the Benefits of Higher Education through Appropriate Governance | p. 70 |
| Mission-... MORE | p. 90 |
| Higher Education's Landscape of Internationalization | p. 108 |
| Where the Quality Discussion Stands: Strategies and Ambiguities | p. 128 |
| Global University Rankings and their Impact | p. 145 |
| Fund-Raising as Institutional Advancement | p. 159 |
| The Challenge of University Leadership in the Developing World | p. 176 |
| Access and Equity | p. 187 |
| The Academic Profession: The Realities of Developing Countries | p. 205 |
| The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Research Universities in Developing Countries | p. 224 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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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.
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