Call for Chapter Proposals:
               The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education

Volume 9 in the International Perspectives on Education and Society series published by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK

“THE WORLDWIDE TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION”

Edited by
David P. Baker (Pennsylvania State University)
Alexander W. Wiseman (The University of Tulsa)

Higher education worldwide, including the university and other related academic programs, is currently undergoing intensive change and transformation perhaps as no other time in its long history. One factor contributing to this rapid transformation is the global expansion of higher education at unprecedented rates. More of the world’s population is continuing to higher education (and other forms of tertiary education) now than ever before. In fact, enrollment in institutions of higher education around the world is growing at a rapid rate. Some scholars have suggested that one reason for this rapid expansion is that the role of higher education has shifted over the last 50 years from an elite to a mass institution. As a result of this rapid expansion and shift in focus, the nature of students, faculty, the curriculum, and assessment is changing within the institution. And in society, the value of higher education and its impact on socioeconomic status, human capital, and technical innovation is changing as well.

We invite comparative scholars to propose chapters that address any number of a wide variety of topics in the worldwide transformation of higher education. Topics could include, but are not limited to massification, knowledge production versus training, expansion and funding, crisis of public confidence, the rising model of the research university, interdisciplinarity, society-university linkages, managerialism and accountability, assessment and grading, privatization, globalization in the rise of supranational ratings and rankings, and globalization in exchanges of students, knowledge, and graduates. The intent is to have a combination of state-of-the-field reviews, theory-driven syntheses of current scholarship, reports of new empirical research, and critical discussions of major topics around the volume's theme. All proposals/manuscripts are peer-reviewed.

Please contact the editors with chapter proposals and/or preliminary manuscripts written in English by November 30, 2006:

Email: alexander-wiseman@utulsa.edu
Email: dpb4@psu.edu