Showing papers by "Philip G. Altbach published in 1996"

Higher education in an international perspective : critical issues

Abstract: This comprehensive overview of developments in the world's universities in the last decade of the 20th century offers reprinted essays that are written by experts from the countries and regions examined, a diversity made possible by UNESCO's worldwide network. The book focuses on several key issues in comparative perspective, including fiscal issues and university reform in the Arab countries, Africa, western Europe, Russia, and other nations. The coverage combines an analytical approach with valuable current data on the state of higher education.

Ernest Boyer: An Appreciation

Abstract: E Boyer, who died in December 1995, was the most influential spokesperson on higher education in the United States. His ideas about the undergraduate curriculum, the role of research in academe, and the reform of higher education had a significant impact on the direction of American higher education. He was influential not only because he headed the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the nation’s oldest education-oriented “think tank,” but because he had a unique ability to translate controversial ideas about education into understandable language. He also had a tremendous commitment to his ideas and to education—and put time into communicating these ideas far and wide. He was willing to go to small colleges or into school classrooms to discuss education. Indeed, he was as at home in the classroom as he was in giving testimony before Congress. Education, to Ernest Boyer, was a calling that he saw in almost religious terms. Strongly influenced by the pacifist and socially active Church of the Brethren and the Quakers, Boyer was an evangelist for education.