This volume focuses on the power of technology to improve education and to create global educational environments. The contributors present exciting new programs for training administrators and teachers, and makes clear the possibilities that technology brings to the lives of researchers and policymakers.

This volume continues the ongoing discussion on higher education funding in the United States. Critical issues addressed include: sources and levels of funding; performance-based accountability standards; the decentralization of control; diminished resources; retirement and benefits; increased use of business and private sectors in underwriting development; and alternate revenue sources.