Universities and Reflective Modernity: Institutional Ambiguities and Unintended Consequences

by Lazr Vlsceanu

Overview

A book about the challenges and uncertainties facing today's university, a chronicle of recent and current changes in higher education in the world. There are many questions today that are sufficiently open to doubt and profoundly related to new developments, to justify our starting new enquiries, here and now, by looking freshly and more closely at the actual configurations and at their historical grounds, for providing the new standard account of the university today.

Vlasceanu discusses the inherent contradiction between academia on the one hand, and expectations and regulations of the market on the other. Analyses demographic and other statistical characteristics of today's higher education. Examines the financial basis of universities in various countries, and describes current governance models. Finally the author sets up a new typology of universities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789639776494
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lazar Vlasceanu is Head of the Sociology Department, Bucharest University. He is also vice-president of the Romanian Council on University Research, and member of the Council of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.