Comparative Higher Education or Linking Theory to Practice

Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University, and Development

Author: Phillip G Altbach

Higher education is increasingly international. The issues that affect universities in one country are important globally. There are a myriad of links among academic systems worldwide. Comparative Higher Education is the first book to systematically explore many of the most important implications of the globalization of higher education. It explores the links among universities, including foreign students and scholars, the impact of the Western higher education idea on universities throughout the world, and especially the current importance of American academic ideas worldwide, and the patterns of inequality among academic systems. Teachers and students are at the heart of the academic systems. Comparative Higher Education focuses on professors and students-especially the political involvement of both professors and students-and seeks to understand their roles in a comparative framework. The book concludes with a discussion of higher education development in the newly industrializing countries. These Pacific Rim nations are examples of how higher education has been used in the process of development. Comparative Higher Education reflects more than three decades of research in the field, and places key elements in the globalization of higher education in a useful framework. Worldwide examples are used to illustrate analyses of such key topics as international exchange, future trends in university development, the complex relationships among academic systems in the industrialized and developing countries, and related issues.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Introduction: Comparative Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
1	Patterns in Higher Education Development	3
2	The University as Center and Periphery	19
3	Twisted Roots: The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education	37
4	The American Academic Model in Comparative Perspective	55
5	An International Academic Crisis? The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective	75
6	Professors and Politics: An International Perspective	93
7	Student Political Activism	103
8	Student Politics in the Third World	117
9	Gigantic Peripheries: India and China in the World Knowledge System	133
10	The New Internationalism: Foreign Students and Scholars	147
11	The Foreign Student Dilemma	161
12	Higher Education, Democracy, and Development: Implications for Newly Industrialized Countries	179
13	Higher Education and Scientific Development: The Promise of Newly Industrialized Countries	197
	Notes	219
	Author Index	245

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Linking Theory to Practice: Case Studies for Working with College Students

Author: Michael Dannells

The authors of the cases in this book have collective experience of over 250 years. The book provides a description and rationale for the case study method for applying theories in student affairs. It includes a brief overview of theories in the field and then presents a sample case analysis, which includes 35 case studies divided into six chapters.
The authors present a challenging array of problems to be tackled which represent the reality of today's complex college campus. The book supplements reading materials within student affairs preparation courses and might also be used in workshops for student affairs professionals and paraprofessionals. The book includes a cursory overview of theories that guide student affairs practice.

D. Stanley Carpenter

This reviewer knows of no other book of cases that are geared precisely for student affairs administrators, so in some sense the editors are competing with themselves. They are winning. The revisions in the book are well taken and the cases seem a little more vibrant, a bit more political in some places, a slightly sharpened turn on diversity in others, the perfect addition of a regent as a player in yet another. This is good work that fills a need in the field-until we need some new cases to reflect the issues of the next decade!.