Liz Reisberg

The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession

1. The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers? P. Altbach 2. Higher Education, the Academic Profession, and Economic Development in Brazil S. Schwartzman 3. Changing Realities: Russian Higher Education and the Academic Profession G. Androushchak, Y. Kuzminov & M. Yudkevich 4. India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy N. Jayaram 5. The Chinese Academic Profession: New Realities M. Wanhua and W. Jianbo 6. The Changing American Academic Profession M. Finkelstein and K. Iglesias

Redefining Academic Mobility: From the Pursuit of Scholarship to the Pursuit of Revenue

It has become increasingly difficult to define exactly what is meant by mobility. Today, there are many different modes of (and motivations for) academic mobility—at the institutional and/or individual level. There is little doubt of the value of integrating institutions and individual students into a larger international community of scholarship or the benefits of exposing students to other cultures and environments. Still, many practical challenges related to these crucially important objectives remain. Certainly international experience must be made accessible to even more individuals. What remains to be seen is if, with the rapid expansion of options and the growing diversity of services and providers, the integrity of the academic enterprise can be protected.

Global: Another Week, Another Scandal: Immigration Dilemmas and Political Confusion

Immigration regulations for international students seem to be changing somewhat unpredictably of late, in major receiving countries. In several English-speaking nations, immigration regulation has become a significant policy issue, and international students are the frequent focus of recent crackdowns.

Resources for Latin American Higher Education Research

to the true essence and work of higher education. Here it should be remembered that the quality of higher education is a multidimensional concept, which relates to the nature of institutions and areas of knowledge and must be viewed within the framework of national, regional, and local priorities. 3. Improvement of Management and Financing Capacity. Given the importance of higher education for development, the Plan acknowledges the unavoidable responsibility of the state in its financing. The Plan calls for streamlining and reforming the management of institutions at all levels and diversifying their sources of financing, based on research on higher education. Systems and institutions need to be assisted in identitying present challenges and future trends, to allow them to respond swiftly and effectively to occurrances in different fields. 4. Putting the New Information and Communication Technologies to Work for Higher Education. Countries of the region need to be encouraged to make the necessary investments in support of an adequate infrastructure in telecommunications and teleinformatics to provide the higher education community with flexible and cheap connections to the global networks. Higher education institutions should be urged to integrate the new technologies in all areas of their work.