Product Description: Although research universities represent only fifteen to twenty per cent of national university systems worldwide, they provide the bulk of fundamental research and doctoral training. Written by two veteran university administrators, Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World focuses on the international ranking systems’ uneven distribution of these institutions in industrialized countries, and the organizational factors affecting their efficacy, prestige, and performance...read more

Product Description: The mobility of students in developed countries has dramatically increased over the last fifty years. Students do not necessarily remain in their countries of origin for higher education and work; they might be born in one country, attend university in a second, and find employment in a third...read more

Product Description: Mission and Money goes beyond the common focus on elite universities and examines the entire higher education industry, including the rapidly growing for-profit schools. The sector includes research universities, four-year colleges, two-year schools, and non-degree-granting career academies...read more

Product Description: The soaring costs of college in an unstable economy are frightening to students and parents alike. Even good grades won’t guarantee adequate financial aid anymore. In Paying for College, Kaplan experts offer advice that refl ects the changing needs of today’s families...read more

Product Description: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead...read more

Explores the key issues facing higher education institutions in the 21st century including perspectives from the five continents, with special emphasis on the theme of the social commitment of universities. This report includes papers from scholars, a Delphi poll from 100 key experts/practitioners, and supporting statistics and analytical maps.

Product Description: Institutions of higher education in the United States are hitting a crisis manifested most noticeably in financial terms: shrinking budgets, decreased investment in faculty, soaring tuition rates, and reduced financial aid for students with the greatest need...read more

Presents a thirty-five to forty-five minute presentation on college financing, which features twenty slide graphics and accompanying lecture text

Presents a thirty-five to forty-five minute presentation on college financing, which features twenty slide graphics and accompanying lecture text