Hong Kong's universities have been transformed by the move from
elite to mass higher education, from government support to market
driven finance, from academic management to professional
management, from local to cross border and international outreach,
from China's education bridge to China's education window, and from
a colonial model of curricular specialization to a postcolonial
model emphasizing broader intellectual development and service. As
the landscape of Hong Kong higher education has undergone change,
so have the backgrounds, specializations, expectations and work
roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing,
increasingly insecure, more accountable, more international, at the
same time, more Mainland-focused and less likely to be organized
only along disciplinary lines. The academic profession today is
expected to be more innovative in teaching, more productive in
research and more entrepreneurial in fundraising. New approaches to
governance have evolved and blurred the boundaries between academic
and managerial roles within the university. The power to appoint
members to university councils has become an area of contention. It
has come increasing differentiation and changing expectations about
knowledge creation and application. This has expanded the role of
the academy and challenged the coherence and viability of the
traditional academic role and loyalties to original disciplines.
Based on the multitude of challenges in Hong Kong higher education,
this book explores the future direction of Hong Kong academic
profession."Hong Kong has arguably one of the best higher education
systems in the world. At the heart of this system, and indeed of
any system, is the academic profession. The Changing Academic in
Hong Kong provides a convincing and multifaceted analysis of the
professoriate. This book is essential for understanding Hong Kong's
success--and it has lessons for a broader understanding of the
academic profession." Philip G. Altbach, Research Professor, Boston
College, USA "The one book that has presented a complete portrait
of recent changes and challenges to Hong Kong's academic profession
-the book should be recognized as a classic." Futao Huang,
Professor of Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan "Gerard
Postiglione and Jisun Jung have successfully pulled together a
strong team of researchers making significant contributions to the
debates of changing academic profession, especially as universities
in Hong Kong are developing new performance indicators in response
to the University Governance Review by Sir Howard Newby. This
volume is timely and highly relevant to researchers, academics and
policy makers in higher education with critical reflections on
academic profession in Hong Kong." Ka-ho Mok, Vice President,
Lingnan University, Hong Kong<
"A very thorough analysis of the situation of the academic
profession and its environment in Hong Kong! A setting which calls
for and provides opportunities for internationality of higher
education in a unique way, but concurrently is tempted to make it
itself a victim of the world-wide inclination of over-emphasizing
visible research productivity. Thus, the case of Hong Kong is
presented as both exceptional and as prototypical for the search of
the balance across the functions of higher education." Ulrich
Teichler, Professor, International Centre for Higher Education
Research, Kassel University, Germany "Hong Kong's higher education
sector is a microcosm of many of the world's other systems:
intensely urban, experiencing significant transformation, attuned
to rankings and peer comparison, watchful toward government
intervention, anxious about funding, and always on the lookout for
new performance indicators for faculty. Anyone interested in Hong
Kong will find "The Changing Academic Profession in Hong Kong" a
good read, but so will those of us concerned about trends,
challenges, and possibilities at university systems in the rest of
the world, particularly Asia." William G. Tierney, Professor,
University of Southern California, USA
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