Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development: Competitive Advantage in Europe, the Us, and Canada

By Sheila Slaughter

Book Overview

Part I: Patterns of stratification.- 1. Marginson "Global stratification in higher education".- 2. Kauppinen Coco Choi & Brajkovic "Blurring Boundaries and Borders: Interlocks between AAU Institutions and Transnational Corporations".- 3. Taylor "The field dynamics of stratification among US research universities: The expansion of federal support for academic research, 2000-2008".- 4. Rosinger, Taylor & Slaughter "The cr?me de la cr?me: Stratification and accumulative advantage within US private research universities".- 5. Taylor, Rosinger & Slaughter "Patents and university strategies in the prestige economy".- Part II: Senior management, trustees, and policymakers.- 6. Susan Wright "The Imaginators of English University Reform".- 7. Barringer & Slaughter "University Trustees and the Entrepreneurial University: Inner circles, interlocks, and exchanges".- 8. Cantwell "The new prudent man".- 9. Tuchman "Accountability Regimes in Flagship Universities: How Strategic Planning Encourages Academic Capitalism".- Part III: Students, curriculum, and faculty.- 10. Karseth & Solbrekke "Curriculum trends in European higher education: The pursuit of the Humboldtian University ideas".- 11. Olson "Shifts in the logic of internationalization: a new space for academic capitalism.- 12. Walker "Stratification and vocationalization in Canadian higher education".- 13. Weis "Po

sitioning for Elite and Quasi-elite Colleges and Universities in the United States: Parent and Student Strategies for "Maintaining Advantage" in New Economic and Postsecondary Context".- Part IV: Counter-trends.- 14. Pinheiro "Humboldt meets Schumpeter? Interpreting the Entrepreneurial Turn' in European Higher Education".- 15. Kwiek "From privatization (of the expansion era) to de-privatization (of the contraction era): A national counter-trend in global context".- 16. Pusser "A State Theoretical Approach to Understanding Contest in Higher Education".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331935521X
• ISBN13: 9783319355214
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"