The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession

1. The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers?
Philip G. Altbach

2. Higher Education, the Academic Profession, and Economic Development in Brazil
Simon Schwartzman

3. Changing Realities: Russian Higher Education and the Academic Profession
Gregory Androushchak, Yaroslav Kuzminov, Maria Yudkevich

4. India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy
N. Jayaram

5. The Chinese Academic Profession: New Realities
Wanhua Ma, Jianbo Wen

6. The Changing American Academic Profession
Martin J. Finkelstein, Kevin W. Iglesias

Avainsanat: Education, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology, general