No. 52: Summer 2008

Published: 2008-05-09

Global Issues

The Costs and Benefits of "Open Access" Scholarship

Philip Altbach
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Teaching in English on the Rise in European Higher Education

Bernd Wachter
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The Humanities and Social Sciences in Asia: Endangered Species?

Philip Altbach
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The Academic Profession

Exploring Academic Salaries in a Comparative Context

Ivan Pacheco, Laura Rumbley
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Research Careers: Some Reflections from Europe

Ulrich Teichler, Harald Schomburg
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The Crisis of the American Academic Workforce

Philip Altbach, Martin Finkelstein
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Latin America

Is There a Latin American University Model?

Andres Bernasconi
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Measuring Institutional Quality in Argentina: The Devil Is in the Details

Liz Reisberg
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Eastern European Reforms

Education Reform in Montenegro: Public and Private Tensions

Joseph Stetar, Vucina Zoric
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The Lithuanian Case of Higher Education Reforms in Europe

Liudvika Leisyte
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Western European Developments

Germany's "Excellence Initiative"

Daniel Fallon
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Universities and Social Cohesion in the European Union

Michael Bastedo
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American Trends

Participation, Persistence, and Attainment Rates: The US Standing

Arthur M. Hauptman
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For-Profit Universities in the Political Economy of Higher Education

Brian Pusser
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Countries and Regions

Knowledge Economies: The Singapore Example

Ravinder Sidhu
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Politics, Ethnicity, and the Mission of the University: The Kenyan Example

Weycliffe Otieno
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