Universities and Globalization

Jan Currie. School of Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia and Janice Newson. Department of Sociology, York University, Ontario, Canada

INTRODUCTION - Jan Currie PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION AS AN ANALYTICAL CONCEPT AND LOCAL POLICY RESPONSES Globalization and Education Policy in Australia - Janice Dudley National Higher Education Policies in a Global Economy - Sheila Slaughter PART TWO: NATIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION The Changing Political Economy - Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson The Private and Public Lives of Canadian Universities The Service University in Service Societies - Arild Tjeldvoll The Norwegian Experience The Last Decade of Higher Education Reform in Australia and France - Richard DeAngelis Different Constraints, Differing Choices in Higher Education Politics and Policies PART THREE: GLOBALIZING PRACTICES: CORPORATE MANAGERIALISM, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND PRIVATIZATION Micro-Economic Reform through Managerialism in American and Australian Universities - Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich Don't Count Your Blessings - Claire Polster and Janice Newson The Social Accomplishments of Performance Indicators Changing Accountability and Autonomy at the `Coalface' of Academic Work in Australia - Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie The Entrepreneurial University - Edward Berman Macro and Micro Perspectives from the United States PART FOUR: TRANSNATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMS Globalization and Distance Education Mega-Institutions - Mick Campion and David Freeman Mega-Ambivalence Globalization, the OECD, and Australian Higher Education - Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi Reshaping the Educational Agendas of Mexican Universities - Janice Newson, Heriberta Castanos-Lomnitz and Axel Didriksson The Impact of NAFTA CONCLUSION - Janice Newson Repositioning the Local through Alternative Responses to Globalization