Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms

1. Current Research Trends in Globalisation and Neo-liberalism in Higher Education
Joseph Zajda, Val Rust

Part I. Higher Education Reforms in the USA

2. Higher Education and the Discourse on Global Competition: Vernacular Approaches Within Higher Education Policy Documents
Sylvia S. Bagley, Laura M. Portnoi

3. Globalisation and New Developments in Global University Rankings
Val Rust, Stephanie Kim

4. Higher Education Engagement and Economic Participation: Divide and Conquer
Kassie Freeman

5. University Social and Public Engagement: Creative Nexuses for STEM Research and International Relations
Beverly Lindsay, Eric Jason Simeon

6. Investing in MOOCs: “Frenemy” Risk and Information Quality
Maureen W. McClure

Part II. Higher Education Reforms: An International Perspective

7. Expansion and Curtailing in Finnish Higher Education Between 1950–2015: The Impact of Economy, Politics and Regional Policy on the Higher Education Network
Toni Saarivirta, Riitta Jaatinen

8. Paradigm Shift in Higher Education: Learning, Internationalisation and Development
Yin Cheong Cheng

9. Higher Education Reforms and Center-Periphery Dilemmas: Ukrainian Universities Between Neo-Soviet and Neo-Liberal Contestations
Anatoly Oleksiyenko

10. Reforms in Higher Education in the Russian Federation: Implications for Equity and Social Justice
Joseph Zajda

11. Contemporary Challenges of Higher Education in Israel
Nitza Davidovitch

12. Research in Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms
Joseph Zajda, Val Rust

Avainsanat: Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Studies