Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573562939 ISBN 13: 9781573562935

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

In May 1998, the participants in the Glion Colloquium gathered in Switzerland to identify the major problems currently facing higher education in the United States and Western Europe, and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium is a collection of papers written by the participants of this colloquium.

About this title

About the Author:

WERNER Z. HIRSCH is professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles where he also served as director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs from 1963 to 1973.
LUC E. WEBER is a full professor of public economics at the University of Geneva and an international expert on higher education for the World Bank, the Council of Europe, the European Association of Universities, the Confederation of EU Rectors' Conferences and the International Association of Universities.

Review:

The well-argued volume offers much to the discerning reader. Recommended for anyone with an eye to the future and higher education. (Journal of Academic Librarians)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1573562939
• ISBN 13: 9781573562935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 199
• Editor: Hirsch Werner Z., Weber Luc