Globalization and Higher Education

List of Contributors

List of Contributors • 259 • Tom P. Abeles is president of Sagacity, Inc., a member of the Global Alliance for Transnational Education, and the editor of Horizon. He is currently developing a virtual campus for the graduate school at Hamline University. Dr. Abeles has been active in discussions, in print and online, of the implications of the digital revolution. Alan Bowen-James is CEO of NextEd, an Asia-based provider of online learning solutions for the corporate, professional, and higher education markets. Founded in Hong Kong in 1998, NextEd has eight offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Jan Currie is associate professor of education at Murdock University, Australia. She is co-editor of Universities and Globalization: Critical Perspectives (Sage, 1998). Gerard Delanty is professor of sociology at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He was visiting professor at York University, Toronto, in 1998, and visiting professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2000. He is author of Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (Macmillan, 1995), Social Theory in a Changing World (Polity, 1999), Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power, the Self (Sage, 2000), Citizenship in a Global Age (Open University Press, 2000), and Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society (Open University Press, 2001). Professor Delanty is editor of the European Journal of Social Theory. Leonardo Garnier is a political economist at the University of Costa Rica. His writings have focused on the problems of globalization and human rights. He has had extensive experience with UN agencies, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Des (PNUD), and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and most recently with UNICEF in Ecuador. Su Hao is chair of the Department of Diplomacy of the College of Foreign Affairs at Beijing University, China, and recently a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University. He has had a continuing interest in the consequences of globalization on higher education in China. Sohail Inayatullah does extensive work in Australian and East Asian universities, especially on corporatization, the Internet, multiculturalism, democratization, and organizational transformation. He is co-editor of The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University (Greenwood, 2000). Charles Karelis is former president of Colgate University and, for many years, was program director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the U.S. Department of Education. In the latter capacity he was involved with a host of innovative programs. Peter T. Manicas is professor of sociology and director of the liberal studies program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. He has authored many books and articles , and has only recently turned his attention to problems in higher education. Michael Margolis is professor of political science, University of Cincinnati, and the author of the widely read essay, “Brave New Universities,” and with David Resnick , Politics as Usual: The “Cyberspace Revolution” (Sage, 2000). John J. McDermott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University. He was a Danforth Fellow and is the author of many books and articles on American culture and philosophy, including philosophy of education. Jaishree K. Odin is an associate professor in the liberal studies program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. She has published extensively on online pedagogy and the implications of the new technologies. More recently, she served as assistant dean for Outreach College, responsible for developing various entirely new online programs for UH Mänoa. Richard S. Ruch is author of Higher Ed, Inc.: The Rise of the For-Profit University ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). He has served as chief academic officer at DeVry College of Technology, and as dean of the College of Business Administration at Rider University. He is currently studying theology at Princeton Theological Seminary . Charles W. Smith is professor of sociology at Queens College, CUNY, New York, and a former dean, provost, and assistant to the president at Queens College. He is author of Market Values in American Higher Education: The Pitfalls and the Promises (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Understanding the Mind of the Market (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), and Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (The Free Press, 1989). Professor Smith is the editor of Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. Scott L. Thomas, Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, has authored (and co-authored) a number of important studies of student attitudes and the income effects of higher education, including differences in outcomes for graduates of...