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CHER
Consortium of Higher Education Researchers
CHER PUBLICATIONS
QUESTIONING EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Policies, Experiences and Challenges in National and Comparative Perspective
Edited by Michele Rostan and Massimiliano Vaira
(Centre for Study and Reasearch on Higher Education Systems, University of Pavia, Italy)
Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2011
34 EURO
Questioning Excellence in Higher Education casts an empirical and critical glance on how the
rhetoric of excellence has emerged, diffused and affected the higher education sector, in an
international and comparative perspective. Far form being taken for granted and being a neutral or
technical concept, excellence is heavily infused with values. The contributes here collected analyze
and problematize it, highlighting its underlying assumptions, vocabularies and aims, as well as
showing tensions, contraddictions and unintended outcomes.
This book offers several insights, ranging from policies to practices, mainly based on research
results and empirical evidence, aiming at questioning the concept and its uses and it is addressed to
an international audience and in particular to higher education scholars and professionals. Those
who are involved in higher education assessment, members of professional bodies and
organizations in the higher education field, students in education, but also policy makers and the
public opinion at large will profit from the works of a selected group of scholars coming from a
variety of countries.
The book’s chapters are a selection of revised papers originally presented at the 21st CHER
Conference "Excellence and Diversity in Higher Education. Meanings, Goals, and Instruments."
held at Pavia University in 2008.
Please order your volume at the CHER Secretariat:
CHER Secretariat
Prof. Dr. Barbara M. Kehm - Executive Secretary
INCHER-Kassel
Tel.: +49 561 804-2415
Fax: +49 561 804-7415
Email: cher@incher.uni-kassel.de
The Research Mission of the University
Policy Reforms and Institutional Response
Edited by Patrick Clancy and David D. Dill
Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2011
34 EURO
Research Mission of the University edited by Patrick Clancy and David D. Dill is the first volume in the new CHER series "Issues in Higher Education" which will publish selected papers from the annual conferences of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER).
This volume presents recent scholarship on the changing research mission of the university and on the implications of these changes for the university itself.
As these papers make clear the leading nations increasingly view the research mission of the university as a principal component of
national innovation policies. The papers therefore examine the current preoccupation of higher education policy with concentrating knowledge production to
enhance national innovation and competitiveness and with assessing research. The authors explore how this new policy emphasis has influenced: research
funding mechanisms; research evaluation; initiatives designed to encourage university knowledge transfer; and reforms of doctoral education.
The papers analyse the impact of these reforms and the response of universities to the changing policy environment.
The volume ha a strong comparative focus drawing on research from a range of European countries as well as from Australia and the United States. It combines papers from some of the leading scholars in research in higher education together with papers from younger scholars in the field.
The volume will be of particular interest to researchers in the field of higher education, to those who occupy leadership roles in higher education institutions and to those involved in the development of higher education policy at national and international levels.
Please order your volume at the CHER Secretariat:
CHER Secretariat
Prof. Dr. Barbara M. Kehm - Executive Secretary
INCHER-Kassel
Tel.: +49 561 804-2415
Fax: +49 561 804-7415
Email: cher@incher.uni-kassel.de
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