Academic Star Warsexcellence Initiatives In Global Perspective Yudkevich by Yudkevich, Maria, Philip G. Altbach & Jamil Salmi, Eds. 9780262546850, 9780262376709, 9780262376693, 026254685X, 0262376709, 0262376695 instant download after payment.

Academic excellence initiatives (AEIs)—special government-sponsored programs to improve research universities—have provided billions of dollars to top universities and represent perhaps the most significant effort in the past half-century to jump-start academic research. The contributors to Academic Star Wars, superbly edited by Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, and Jamil Salmi, analyze AEIs in nine European and Asian countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia, and offer penetrating insights into the successes and problems of these initiatives, as well as into the broader system of higher education itself.