Higher education in the 21st century: Perspectives on an emerging body of literature

Futures

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 635-650

  Skolnik, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0001437314     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-3287(98)00071-8     Document Type: Article

References (49)

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9. Barr, R. and Tagg, J., Change, Ibid, p. 14.
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11. The articles by Davis and Heterick cited in reference 1 cover similar terrain although the latter does not use the phrase 21st Century in the title. Writing about reengineering higher education for the 21st Century builds upon the general concept of reengineering described by Hammer, M. and Champy, J., Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for a Business Revolution. Harper Collins, New York, 1993.
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14. See Higher Education Policy, 1995, 8(4), for the special issue entitled, 'Organizing Higher Education for the 21st Century'.
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20. This theme is most developed in the article by Plater, W., cited in reference 1. On the bleak prospects of new Ph.D. graduates seeking tenure stream professorial positions in the United States, see Douglas, R., Survival of the fittest? Postgraduate education and the professoriate at the Fin de Siecle. Daedalus, 1997. Fall, 126(4), 137-152.
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