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The Academic Profession: The Professoriate in Crisis

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Martin J. Finkelstein (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780815326663 | Reprint edition (Routledge, December 1, 1997), cover price $200.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.

Paperback:

9781138965720 | Routledge, June 30, 2016, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.

The Global Academic Rankings Game: Changing Institutional Policy, Practice, and Academic Life

Product Description: The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings. Based on a unified case methodology of eleven key countries and academic institutions, this comprehensive volume provides expert analysis on this emerging phenomenon at a time when world rankings are becoming increasingly visible and influential on the international stage...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Laura E. Rumbley (editor) and Maria Yudkevich (editor)

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9781138935785 | Routledge, March 15, 2016, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings.

Paperback:

9781138935792 | Routledge, March 14, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings.

Global Perspectives on Higher Education

By Philip G. Altbach

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9781421419268 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 29, 2016, cover price $34.95

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Patricia J. Gumport (editor)

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9781421419893 | 4th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 4, 2016), cover price $69.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

9780801899058 | 3 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 12, 2011), cover price $60.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

9780801880346 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 2005), cover price $60.00

9780199518005, titled "Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays in Honour of Erik Allardt" | Universitetsforlaget, October 1, 1986, cover price $62.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays in Honour of Erik Allardt

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9781421419909 | 4th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 8, 2016), cover price $32.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

9780801899065 | 3 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 8, 2011), cover price $29.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

9780801880353 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 25, 2005), cover price $30.00

9780801858895 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $26.95

The International Imperative in Higher Education

By Philip G. Altbach

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Hardcover:

9789462093379 | Sense Pub, June 7, 2013, cover price $99.00

Paperback:

9789462093362 | Sense Pub, June 7, 2013, cover price $54.00

The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University

Product Description: The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others...read more

By Philip G. Altbach and Edward Shils

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9781560002987 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1997, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others.

Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

Product Description: How are professors paid? Can theÂ "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key insights and recommendations into the current state of the academic profession worldwide...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Gregory Androushchak (editor), Ivan F. Pacheco (editor), Liz Reisberg (editor) and Maria Yudkevich (editor)

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9780415898065 | Routledge, April 3, 2012, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: How are professors paid?

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9780415898072 | Routledge, April 3, 2012, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: How are professors paid?

Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas

Product Description: Higher education worldwide faces similar challengesÃ¢Â€Â•how to cope with globalization, the provision of access to underserved populations, and others. Higher Education in the New Century has identified six key challenges and has focused careful analysis on them...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Patti Mcgill Peterson (editor)

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9789087901998 | Sense Pub, November 30, 2008, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Higher education worldwide faces similar challengesÃ¢Â€Â•how to cope with globalization, the provision of access to underserved populations, and others.

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Jorge BalÃÂ¡n (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780801886614 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 5, 2007, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780801886621 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 5, 2007, cover price $42.00

Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs

Product Description: The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years. This book provides a unique and comprehensive guide, including an inventory of 199 centers, programs, and institutes in the field, a essay analyzing the emergence and current status of higher education as an area of study, and a listing of 191 journals focusing on higher education...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Leslie A. Bozeman (editor), Natia Janashia (editor) and Laura E. Rumbley (editor)

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9789087900496 | Revised edition (Sense Pub, February 28, 2007), cover price $54.00 | About this edition: The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years.

International Handbook of Higher Education

Product Description: This book provides a central, authoritative source of reference on the most essential topics of higher education. The International Handbook of Higher Education combines a rich diversity of scholarly perspectives with a wide range of internationally derived descriptions and analyses...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and James J. F. Forest (editor)

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9781402040115 | Springer Verlag, July 30, 2006, cover price $959.00 | About this edition: This book provides a central, authoritative source of reference on the most essential topics of higher education.

Private Higher Education: A Global Revolution

Product Description: Several decades ago, private higher education already ranked as a major force in the higher education realm in many countries. Expansion in Latin America had begun in the 1960s, and the private sector was dominant in several key East Asian nations...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Daniel C. Levy (editor)

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9789077874080 | Sense Pub, September 30, 2005, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Several decades ago, private higher education already ranked as a major force in the higher education realm in many countries.

Asian Universities: Historical Perspectives And Contemporary Challenges

Product Description: Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world. Both developed and developing nations are witnessing rapid expansion in the higher education sector. Nor is this progress entirely quantitative: a number of Asian universities are on a par with the finest institutions of higher education in the U...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Toru Umakoshi (editor)

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9780801880360 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 5, 2004, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world.

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9780801880377 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 5, 2004, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world.

Private Higher Education: An International Bibliography

Product Description: This research project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and the Program of Research on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany.

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Yingxia Cao (editor) and Alma Maldonado (editor)

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9781593112110 | Information Age Pub Inc, January 31, 2004, cover price $83.25 | About this edition: This research project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and the Program of Research on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany.

African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook

Explores several facets of higher education in Africa, including a history of available resources, the scope of such education in each African nation, and current issues affecting the system.

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Damtew Teferra (editor)

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9780253341860 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Explores several facets of higher education in Africa, including a history of available resources, the scope of such education in each African nation, and current issues affecting the system.

The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in the Third World

Product Description: The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance education and the new technologies, and changing attitudes concerning academic work have combined to place unprecedented strains on the professoriate...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor)

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9780312295912 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 2003, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere.

Paperback:

9781403960542 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 2, 2003, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere.

The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education: Continuing Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Kofi Lomotey (editor) and William A. Smith (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780791452356 | Revised edition (State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $78.50

Paperback:

9780791452363 | Revised edition (State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $31.95

In Defense of American Higher Education

By Philip G. Altbach (editor), Patricia J. Gumport (editor) and D. Bruce Johnstone (editor)

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9780801866548 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 23, 2001, cover price $62.00

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9780801866555 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 23, 2001, cover price $29.00

Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs

By Philip G. Altbach and David Engberg

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9781573564809 | Praeger Pub Text, January 30, 2001, cover price $80.00

Private Higher Education: An International Bibliography

By Philip G. Altbach, Yingxia Cao and Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

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9781593112066 | Information Age Pub Inc, September 30, 2000, cover price $45.99

Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century

Product Description: Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor)

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9780313312489 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 1999, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide.

Publishing in African Languages: Challenges and Prospects

Product Description: Language issues are often complex and controversial, particularly for many African countries where multiple languages are spoken. This book explores the trends, challenges, and opportunities of publishing in African languages from national, regional, and international perspectives...read more

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Damtew Teferra (editor)

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9780964607859 | Bellagio Pub Network, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Language issues are often complex and controversial, particularly for many African countries where multiple languages are spoken.

Publishing and Development: A Book of Readings

By Philip G. Altbach (editor) and Damtew Teferra (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780964607842 | Bellagio Pub Network, June 1, 1998, cover price $31.95

9780096407846 | Bellagio Pub Network, December 1, 1997, cover price $55.01

Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University, and Development

Product Description: 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...read more

By Philip G. Altbach

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Hardcover:

9781567503807 | Praeger Pub Text, April 20, 1998, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Higher education is increasingly international.

Paperback:

9781567503814 | Praeger Pub Text, April 20, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Higher education is increasingly international.

9789628093885, titled "Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University and Development" | Hong Kong Univ Pr, February 10, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Higher education is increasingly international.

Contemporary Higher Education

Product Description: First Published in 1942. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Philip G. Altbach (editor)

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9780815326595 | Routledge, October 1, 1997, cover price $850.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1942.

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