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If there was ever a time when higher education needed sustained scholarly reflection on finance, it is now. The reality of globalization for higher education suggests an increase in competition competition for students, faculty, and resources. Member states of the European Union are currently making a speedy and concerted effort to harmonize their curricula and educational processes. This exercise fosters greater mobility among students and faculty. Where mobility is enhanced, competition among service providers intensifies. Technology has brought tremendous progress to distance education. Spiru Haret University in Romania boasts of its educational broadcast that covers most of Europe. University of Phoenix in the United States currently boasts of over 200,000 students spread across the world. Certainly, it is no longer business as usual in higher education. Yet there are very few books on higher education finance; and even fewer are those that attempt to treat this important subject within an international context. There is a reason for this. A colleague from Great Britain described it this way:
One thing we all know is that without money we cannot do what we are doing. However, I doubt if any of us can articulate with absolute certainty how money produces effects on education outcome. The actors are constantly changing, the issues are complex, the constraints are many not to talk about the ubiquitous politics that one needs to contend with. Almost every time we try to write, events overtake our reasoning before the ink dries on the prints.
With a statement like this from an invited contributor, the temptation to lay down the tools and quit was high. Still, the changes and challenges are exciting. Government s ability to control and confine education to its borders is fast eroding. With Internet and satellite systems, it will become harder to police foreign educational outreach. Yet, higher education has never been so important in the hand of government as an instrument by which to effect socio-political and economic policies. Governments must worry about brain drain, about research outcomes getting into the hands of rogue nations and terrorists (not to mention commercial competitors), about the cost of higher education, and about access for its citizenry. Finance has a significant role to play in every higher education decision, yet we know and talk little about it. Admittedly, we all complain about insufficient budgets, but serious academic analysis that is expressed to decision makers in an understandable language is rare. The primary goal of this book is to discuss how higher education is financed in participating countries. Contributors were encouraged to eliminate the jargons of economics of education and to present information that is comprehensible to higher education decision makers. Experience has shown that most higher education decision makers have little or no background in economics or finance and, frankly speaking, may not be interested in economics. Many people have thin patience for complex equations, and those equations are hardly called to mind when one is confronted with real life challenges. While some contributors may have succeeded better than others in simplifying complex concepts, it is my hope that the majority of this book s readers will find it useful, informative, and readable....
One thing we all know is that without money we cannot do what we are doing. However, I doubt if any of us can articulate with absolute certainty how money produces effects on education outcome. The actors are constantly changing, the issues are complex, the constraints are many not to talk about the ubiquitous politics that one needs to contend with. Almost every time we try to write, events overtake our reasoning before the ink dries on the prints.
With a statement like this from an invited contributor, the temptation to lay down the tools and quit was high. Still, the changes and challenges are exciting. Government s ability to control and confine education to its borders is fast eroding. With Internet and satellite systems, it will become harder to police foreign educational outreach. Yet, higher education has never been so important in the hand of government as an instrument by which to effect socio-political and economic policies. Governments must worry about brain drain, about research outcomes getting into the hands of rogue nations and terrorists (not to mention commercial competitors), about the cost of higher education, and about access for its citizenry. Finance has a significant role to play in every higher education decision, yet we know and talk little about it. Admittedly, we all complain about insufficient budgets, but serious academic analysis that is expressed to decision makers in an understandable language is rare. The primary goal of this book is to discuss how higher education is financed in participating countries. Contributors were encouraged to eliminate the jargons of economics of education and to present information that is comprehensible to higher education decision makers. Experience has shown that most higher education decision makers have little or no background in economics or finance and, frankly speaking, may not be interested in economics. Many people have thin patience for complex equations, and those equations are hardly called to mind when one is confronted with real life challenges. While some contributors may have succeeded better than others in simplifying complex concepts, it is my hope that the majority of this book s readers will find it useful, informative, and readable....
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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
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
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- PublisherAlgora Pub
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0875863175
- ISBN 13 9780875863177
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages344
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