Abstract

The conference that provided the occasion for the papers in this volume was preoccupied with the anxieties of American faculty, students, and administrators. In spite of our hope to focus on the future, we were, predictably enough, more conscious of the problems of the present. Yet, two striking features of contemporary higher education are the extent to which students, administrators, and faculty are conscious of working in a global context, and the way that extravagant hopes for, and fears of, the globalized future dominate discussion.

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