Showing papers by "Philip G. Altbach published in 1981"

The University as Center and Periphery.

Abstract: This article1 concerns complexities and dilemmas in higher education. It is specifically concerned with the relationship between universities in the industrialized countries and those in the Third World. An effort is made to understand how universities located in countries at very different levels of economic and technological development relate to one another in an international knowledge system. Universities function in several different contexts at the same time. They are rooted in their own cultures and are affected by national realities. They are also parts of an international knowledge system. They are producers and disseminators of knowledge in their own nations, playing increasingly important roles in technologically developing societies. They also interact with institutions and ideas from abroad, because knowledge has no national boundaries.

Higher Education in American Society

Abstract: This is the most widely used volume on the subject of American higher education. Now completely revised and updated, this third edition provides in-depth coverage of economic, social, and political issues by leading experts in their fields. Among the topics covered are: the financing of higher education; the relationship between American universities and government at the state and federal levels; the changing legal aspects of higher education; academic freedom. The contributors also discuss how the key elements of academic institutions - students, faculty, and administrators - have been affected by societal trends.This is the only volume that offers a multi-faceted and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between one of our most important institutions - the university - and the political and social system of which it is a part. The contributors include Philip G. Altbach; Robert O Berdahl; Burton Clark; Eric L Dey; Lawrence E Gladieux; Patricia J Gumport; W Lee Hansen; Fred F Harcleroad; Arthur M Hauptman; Walter C Hobbs; Sylvia Hurtado; Clark Kerr; Laura Green Knapp; TR McConnell; Aims C McGuinness Jr; Walter Metzger; Sheila Slaughter; Irving J Spitzsberg Jr; Jacob O Stampern; John R Thelin; Martin Trow; and Ami Zusman.