Financing Higher Education in a Global Market (Higher Education Series) - Softcover

Jorge Calero is Professor of Applied Economics (University of Barcelona) and President of the Spanish Association of the Economics of Education (AEDE). His research areas are the economics of education and the economics of the welfare state, with special reference to inequality issues.

Mark A. Kretovics is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration and coordinator of the master s degree in Higher Education at the Graduate School and College of Education, Kent State University. His current research interests include the application of business strategies to higher education institutional management, learning organizations, organizational politics, outcomes assessment, distance education, and compressed course teaching. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University and also holds an MBA and an MS in Counseling.

Daniel W. Lang is Professor at Division of Management, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Prior to taking up an appointment at OISE/UT, Professor Lang was Vice Provost (Planning and Budget) at the University of Toronto, where he also held the positions of University Registrar, Vice President, Computing and Communications, and Senior Policy Advisor to the President. In addition to his appointment at OISE/UT, Mr. Lang holds an appointment in the Division of Management and Economics at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. He is Chair of the council of Ontario Universities Committee on Accountability. He is also Head Coach of the University Toronto Varsity Blues baseball team. Professor Lang s current research interests include finance, management, budgeting, planning, system organization and policy, inter-institutional planning and cooperation, accountability and performance indicators, and history. Dr. Lang received his doctorate from the University of Toronto.

Elsa Hackl is currently a Professor in the Department of Political Science of Vienna University. She holds a Master's Degree in Law and a Doctoral Degree in Politics. Dr. Hackl has worked as a civil servant in a senior position (director at the Austrian Ministry for Education, Research and Culture), was Visiting Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada and at the European University Institute, Florence, continues to work as an expert for OECD, the Council of Europe and Salzburg Seminar. Her current research interests include Education policy, Europeanisation /internationalization, public administration.

Steve O. Michael is Professor of Higher Education Administration and Vice Provost for University Diversity and Academic Initiatives at Kent State University. Prior to his current position, he held the positions of Interim Associate Dean of Education, Director of the Center for International and Intercultural Education, and Coordinator of the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program. His research interest includes the application of business strategies to institutional management, higher education finance, diversity in higher education, academic program reviews and discontinuation, internationalization of higher education, and marketing of education. Dr. Michael was a British Commonwealth Scholar and the first recipient of the Sheffield Award for the best article published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education (1992). He was also an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow under President Jared Cohon of Carnegie Mellon University, Vice Chancellor Vandelinde of University of Bath, and Vice Chancellor David Rhind of the City University of London in 2000-2001. Dr. Michael received his doctorate from University of Alberta, Canada.

Hans Pechar is an associate professor at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and head of the department for Higher Education Research. His research topics are comparative higher educatio