Bücher der Reihe RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

Concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.

Examining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy, and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in select emerging market countries.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Divers Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms.

This study analyses how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, Massachusetts, US, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fitted with her vision for higher education.

This text tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China.

A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.

Internationalising higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This book addresses how the US federal government affected the development, institutionalisation and diffusion of this change process from 1958-1988.

By analysing two black national higher education student political organisations, this book analyses their ideologies and politics and their intellectual, political and social determinants.

This book explores the influence of collaborative relationships among dual career couples on innovation and productivity. It proposes a new definition of egalitarianism.

This publication features the impressions and experiences of 12 foreign exchange students who have written about their sojourn at Dartmouth College in the U.S.A. They convey a perspective on American college life not seen by most American students.

The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over one-third of all US college students. This book presents the results of an unprecedented national study of the community college professoriate.

An interesting study of the german higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the post-unification period.

This book explores the constellation of external and internall factors that contribute to organizational responses to diversity in post-secondary education.

This book draws on the perspectives of nearly 20 000 faculties from around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research.

Teferra focuses on scientific research and communication in Africa. Included are chapters on scientific journals, secondary avenues of scientific communication, and funding issues. There is also a focus on the challenges and opportunities of scientific communication in African universities.

This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy, and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in select emerging market countries.

These essays describe the Korean higher education system, provide data heretofore unavailable in the English language, and present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues in that country's higher education system.

Examines the development of American study abroad, looking at how negative beliefs about international exchanges have limited its potential, and what can be done to reverse the trend. A historical and rhetorical analysis of international study in the US, this book contributes to an understanding of how the modern situation has come about.

As South Africa moved into a new era of its history, there were major challenges facing the post-apartheid government with regard to the reform of higher education. This book analyzes these challenges, highlighting key constraints in the reform process. It is presented in a narrative style.