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. As a
whole, the chapters in this volume in the "International
Perspectives on Education and Society" series present a thoughtful
discussion of the worldwide transformation of higher education from
multiple perspectives. Contributors include Gaele Goastellec, David
Turner, John C. Weidman, Adiya Enkhjargal, Christine Min Wotipka,
Francisco O. Ramirez, Karin Amos, Lucia Bruno, Marcelo Parreira do
Amaral, Mark S. Johnson, Christopher Collins, Robert A. Rhoads,
Sunwoong Kim, Jun Li, Jing Lin, Chuing Prudence Chou, Philip G.
Altbach, and Patti McGill Peterson.
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