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Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- The Art of Starting a New University /Jamil Salmi , Philip G. Altbach , Liz Reisberg and Isak Froumin -- From Technical School to World-Class Polytechnic /Gérard Escher -- Building and Sustaining Academic Excellence /Tony F. Chan -- Innovation and the Development of Human Resources in the Gulf /Fred Moavenzadeh -- A World-Class Experiment in Kazakhstan /Shigeo Katsu and Aray Saniyazova -- Olin College of Engineering /Richard K. Miller and Ann-Marie Dorning -- Building a New Academic Institution /Thomas L. Magnanti -- Building Skoltech /Edward Crawley -- The University of Luxembourg /Franck Leprévost -- Establishing a World-Class University from Scratch /Artemy Morozov and Pavel Shchedrovitskiy.

The Emergence and Reality of Contemporary Internationalization -- Tracking a Global Academic Revolution -- The Logic of Mass Higher Education -- The Prospects for the BRICs : The New Academic Superpowers? -- Internationalization and Global Tension : Lessons from History -- Globalization and the University : Myths and Realities in an Unequal World -- The Internationalization of Higher Education : Motivations and Realities -- Higher Education Crosses Borders -- The Globalization of College and University Rankings -- The Imperial Tongue : English as the Dominating Academic Language -- The University as Center and Periphery -- Research Universities in Developing Countries -- Twisted Roots : The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education -- Comparative Perspectives on Private Higher Education -- Academic Freedom : International Realities and Challenges -- The Giants Awake : The Present and Future of Higher Education Systems in China and India -- Academic Remuneration and Contracts -- Student Political Activism

This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context