TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mittelman,James H.
TI  - Implausible Dream: The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education 
SN  - 9780691165189
AV  - LB2322.2 .M57 2018eb
U1  - 378/.01 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Education and globalization
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Finland
KW  - Uganda
KW  - United States
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Ratings and rankings
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Abreviations --; A Note on Terminology --; INTRODUCTION: Questions and Arguments --; PART I. GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE GOVERNANCE --; CHAPTER 1. A Crisis of Purpose --; CHAPTER 2. Contending Purposes of Modern Universities --; CHAPTER 3. Drivers of Reform --; PART II. CASE STUDIES --; CHAPTER 4. The Neoliberal Model: The United States --; CHAPTER 5. A Social Democratic Path: Finland --; CHAPTER 6. Postcolonial Experience: Uganda --; PART III. OUTCOMES --; CHAPTER 7. Polymorphism --; CHAPTER 8. Plausible Alternatives --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be "world-class," institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions of cultivating democratic citizenship, fostering critical thinking, and safeguarding academic freedom. In the contest to raise their national and global profiles, universities are embracing a new form of utilitarianism, one that favors market power over academic values. In this book, James Mittelman explains why the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions and proposes viable alternatives that can help universities thrive in today's competitive global environment.Mittelman traces how the scale, reach, and impact of higher-education institutions expanded exponentially in the post-World War II era, and how the market-led educational model became widespread. Drawing on his own groundbreaking fieldwork, he offers three case studies-the United States, which exemplifies market-oriented educational globalization; Finland, representative of the strong public sphere; and Uganda, a postcolonial country with a historically public but now increasingly private university system. Mittelman shows that the "world-class" paradigm is untenable for all but a small group of wealthy, research-intensive universities, primarily in the global North. Nevertheless, institutions without substantial material resources and in far different contexts continue to aspire to world-class stature.An urgent wake-up call, Implausible Dream argues that universities are repurposing at the peril of their high principles and recommends structural reforms that are more practical than the unrealistic worldwide measures of excellence prevalent today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888085?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888085
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400888085/original
ER  -