Comparative higher education : knowledge, the university, and development / by Philip G. Altbach.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-243) and index.

Introduction: Comparative Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century -- 1. Patterns in Higher Education Development -- 2. The University as Center and Periphery -- 3. Twisted Roots: The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education -- 4. The American Academic Model in Comparative Perspective -- 5. An International Academic Crisis? The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective -- 6. Professors and Politics: An International Perspective -- 7. Student Political Activism -- 8. Student Politics in the Third World -- 9. Gigantic Peripheries: India and China in the World Knowledge System -- 10. The New Internationalism: Foreign Students and Scholars -- 11. The Foreign Student Dilemma -- 12. Higher Education, Democracy, and Development: Implications for Newly Industrialized Countries -- 13. Higher Education and Scientific Development: The Promise of Newly Industrialized Countries.

Comparative Higher Education reflects more than three decades of research in the field, and places key elements in the globalization of higher education in a useful framework. Worldwide examples are used to illustrate analyses of such key topics as international exchange, future trends in university development, the complex relationships among academic systems in the industrialized and developing countries, and related issues.