Table Of ContentFINANCING
HIGHER EDUCATION
IN A GLOBAL MARKET
F
INANCING
H E
IGHER DUCATION
G M
IN A LOBAL ARKET
Steve O. Michael
and Mark A. Kretovics,
Editors
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Financing higher education in a global market / Steve O. Michael and
Mark A. Kretovics, editors.
p. cm.
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1. Universities and colleges—Finance—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Higher
education and state—Cross-cultural studies. I. Michael, Steve O. II.
Kretovics, Mark. III. Title.
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Jorge Calero is Professor of Applied Economics (University of Barcelona)
and President of the Spanish Association of the Economics of Education
(AEDE). His research areas are the economics of education and the economics of
the welfare state, with special reference to inequality issues.
Mark A. Kretovics is Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Administration and coordinator of the master’s degree in Higher Education at
the Graduate School and College of Education, Kent State University. His
current research interests include the application of business strategies to higher
education institutional management, learning organizations, organizational
politics, outcomes assessment, distance education, and compressed course
teaching. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University and also holds an
MBA and an MS in Counseling.
Daniel W. Lang is Professor at Division of Management, the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Prior
to taking up an appointment at OISE/UT, Professor Lang was Vice Provost
(Planning and Budget) at the University of Toronto, where he also held the
positions of University Registrar, Vice President, Computing and
Communications, and Senior Policy Advisor to the President. In addition to his
appointment at OISE/UT, Mr. Lang holds an appointment in the Division of
Management and Economics at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. He is
Chair of the council of Ontario Universities Committee on Accountability. He is
also Head Coach of the University Toronto Varsity Blues baseball team.
Professor Lang’s current research interests include finance, management,
budgeting, planning, system organization and policy, inter-institutional
planning and cooperation, accountability and performance indicators, and
history. Dr. Lang received his doctorate from the University of Toronto.
Elsa Hackl is currently a Professor in the Department of Political Science of
Vienna University. She holds a Master's Degree in Law and a Doctoral Degree in
Politics. Dr. Hackl has worked as a civil servant in a senior position (director at
the Austrian Ministry for Education, Research and Culture), was Visiting
Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada and at the European
University Institute, Florence, continues to work as an expert for OECD, the
Council of Europe and Salzburg Seminar. Her current research interests include
Education policy, Europeanisation /internationalization, public administration.
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Steve O. Michael is Professor of Higher Education Administration and
Vice Provost for University Diversity and Academic Initiatives at Kent State
University. Prior to his current position, he held the positions of Interim
Associate Dean of Education, Director of the Center for International and
Intercultural Education, and Coordinator of the Higher Education
Administration Doctoral Program. His research interest includes the application
of business strategies to institutional management, higher education finance,
diversity in higher education, academic program reviews and discontinuation,
internationalization of higher education, and marketing of education. Dr.
Michael was a British Commonwealth Scholar and the first recipient of the
Sheffield Award for the best article published in the Canadian Journal of Higher
Education (1992). He was also an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow
under President Jared Cohon of Carnegie Mellon University, Vice Chancellor
Vandelinde of University of Bath, and Vice Chancellor David Rhind of the City
University of London in 2000-2001. Dr. Michael received his doctorate from
University of Alberta, Canada.
Hans Pechar is an associate professor at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary
Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and head of the department for
Higher Education Research. His research topics are comparative higher
education and economics of higher education. Recent publications include
Accreditation in higher education in Britain and Austria: two cultures, two time-frames, in:
Tertiary Education and Management, Vol.8: 231-242 (2002); In Search of a New
Profession. Transformation of Academic Management in Austrian Universities, in: Alberto
Amaral, Lynn Meek and Ingrid M Larsen (eds.): The Higher Education
Managerial Revolution, Kluwer 2003, (p.79-99); Backlash or Modernisation? Two
Reform Cycles in Austrian Higher Education, in: Alberto Amaral, Maurice Kogan and
Ase Gornitzka (eds.): Reform and Change in Higher Education — Policy
Implementation Analysis, Kluwer 2004 (forthcoming); and Towards a European
Higher Education Area: reform pressures on Austria, in: European Journal of Education
2004 (forthcoming) (with Ada Pellert).
Rick Rantz currently serves as Director of the Chester Campus of Feather
River College in Northern California, a position he accepted after completing his
doctoral course work in higher education at the University of Houston. His
published research and conference presentations have focused on leadership
relative to the college presidency, small group dynamics and higher education
finance in developing countries. As an undergraduate student, Mr. Rantz
studied in Mexico City, and he has taught at several institutions in the United
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States, at the Colegio Americano de Guayaquil in Ecuador and at Asociación
Escuelas Lincoln, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a doctoral student, Mr. Rantz
traveled to Thailand on two extended occasions to study the higher education
system of that country and once to the People’s Republic of China for the same
purpose. His dissertation examines the impact that collaborative learning has on
undergraduate cognitive and non-cognitive gains. Mr. Rantz holds at bachelor’s
degree from the United States International University in San Diego and a
master’s degree from Skidmore College in New York.
Prakash Singh is an associate professor of leadership and strategic
management at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. His academic
focus is largely on educational leadership at the masters’ and doctoral levels. He
was awarded a Senior Researcher’s Fulbright grant in 1998 which enabled him to
conduct research on high risk students and cognitive dissonance from a base at
the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He served as a member of the Task
Team that investigated the state of educational management development in
South Africa in 1996. He is a founding member of the Education Management
Association of South Africa. Currently, he is serving as a member of the Standard
Generating Body for educational leadership and management qualifications in
higher education. Presently, he is conducting research on the challenges facing
informal settlement learners in South Africa.
Phasina Tangchuang is Associate Professor of Adult/Non-Formal
Education and a senior researcher at the Center for Education and Labor Studies
(CELS), Chiang Mai University. Her research work includes Development of
Educational Management Model in Doctoral Degree Level in the Field of
Humanity and Social Science; synthesis of Research Papers Funded by the
Faculty of Education; Employment Skills and Education. She is an advisor to
many master’s and doctoral students and she is currently a visiting professor at
Naresuan University. Dr. Tangchuang is the author of several books in
Organization Development, Curriculum Development, Policy and Educational
Planning, Applied Psychology for Non-Formal Education, and Educational
Personnel Management.
Jan Thomas is currently a research fellow at the Department for Higher
Education Research, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of
Klagenfurt at Vienna (Austria) and associate lecturer for “learning and teaching
with new media” at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). He has studied
Education, Humanities and Theology at Hamburg, Passau and Vienna
Universities and holds postgraduate degrees in Educational Sciences,
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Philosophy of Education and German Studies. His current research interests
include comparative studies on academic degree systems, management issues in
part-time postgraduate programs and the implementation of staff development
programs in (and through) web-based learning.
Jandhyala B G Tilak is Professor and Senior Fellow and Head of the
Educational Finance Unit at the National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration, New Delhi. Holding a doctorate from the Delhi School of
Economics, Professor Tilak had taught in the Indian Institute of Education and
the University of Delhi, and as a Visiting Professor in Economics at the Sri
Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, University of Virginia and Hiroshima
University. An economist of education, Dr Tilak was also on the staff of the
World Bank, Washington DC. Dr Tilak’s publications include seven books and
more than 200 research papers published in professional journals in the areas of
economics, development studies and education. He is also the Editor of the
Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, and is on the editorial
board of several journals. He is the recipient of the UGC Sri Pranavananda
Saraswati national award for outstanding research in education, and Dr
Malcolm Adiseshiah award for distinguished contributions to development
studies.
Wietse de Vries is a senior researcher at the Autonomous University of
Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. He specializes in public policies and their effect on
higher education, the impact of evaluation funding mechanisms, and changes in
the working conditions of faculty and students. He has worked on several
international comparative projects. Over the last years he has combined
academic work with that of director of planning and institutional research at the
BUAP, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia,
Canada.
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