The International Imperative in Higher Education -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Imperial Tongue: English as the Dominating Academic Language -- Origins of English Hegemony -- Evidence of English Hegemony -- Downsides -- What Can Be Done? -- 2: Globalization and Forces for Change in Higher Education -- Massification -- Peaks and Valleys In Global Science and Scholarship -- Globalization of the Academic Marketplace -- Conclusion -- 3: The Complexities of Global Engagement -- A Campus Foreign Policy -- The Advent of Commercialism -- Global Engagement and the Academic Community -- A Commitment to the Long Haul -- 4: Corruption: A Key Challenge to Internationalization -- Examples and Implications -- What Can Be Done? -- 5: Access Means Inequality -- The Consequences of Access -- The Inevitability of Inequality -- 6: What International Advice Do Universities Need? -- Who Serves-and Why? -- Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? -- Characteristics of an Effective Committee -- Conclusion -- 7: The Perils of Commercialism: Australia's Example -- Government Pressure -- Emerging Problems -- New Developments -- 8: Reforming Higher Education in the Middle East-and Elsewhere -- Problems -- What Can Be Done Now? -- The Long Road Ahead -- The Dilemmas -- 9: The "Subprime" Market and International Higher Education -- The Landscape -- The Problems -- How to Avoid a Crisis -- 10: Brain Drain or Brain Exchange? -- Current Realities -- Subsidies from the Poor to the Rich -- Rich Country Strategies -- The Complexities of a Globalized World -- Academic Justice? -- 11: The Complexities of 21st-Century Brain Exchange -- Who Goes and Who Stays? -- Patterns and Policies -- Conclusion -- 12: Another Week, Another Scandal: Immigration Dilemmas and Political Confusion -- Recent Scandals -- Political Pressure and Political Response.

Protection for Whom? -- The New Ethos -- Addressing the Problem -- 13: Getting Graduates to Come Home-Not So Easy -- Unanticipated Consequences -- Solutions -- 14: Academic Salaries and Contracts: What Do We Know? -- Salaries and Remuneration -- Contracts -- 15: The Intricacies of AcademicRemuneration -- Patterns -- Some Academics Are Less Equal Than Others -- For Other Professors, More Is Required -- Salary Is Not Always Remuneration -- 16: Academic Career Structures: Bad Ideas -- Taxicabs and Nontenure Track -- European Anomalies -- 17: Academic Salaries, Academic Corruption, and the Academic Career -- An Egyptian Example -- Other Activities -- Causes and Effects -- Conclusion -- 18: The Overuse of Rankings -- Anatomy and Critique -- Distortions -- The Usefulness of Rankings -- Guidelines Not Models -- 19: Rankings Season Is Here -- The Inevitability of Rankings -- Rankings Presume a Nonexistent Zero-Sum Game -- Where Is Teaching in the International Rankings? -- What, Then, Do the Rankings Measure? -- Centers and Peripheries -- Changing the Goalposts -- A 2010 Critique -- Where Are We? -- 20: Hong Kong's Academic Advantage -- Hong Kong's Academic Realities -- The Context of Success -- Characteristics of Success -- Hong Kong and China: Useful Comparisons -- 21: The Challenges of Building a World-Class University: Lessons from Slovenia -- The Context -- World-Class for Slovenia? -- The Prospects -- The Future -- 22: Is There a Future for Branch Campuses -- What Is a Branch? -- Questions of Sustainability -- Academic Freedom -- Home Campus Politics -- Overseas Uncertainties and Changing Policies -- Differing Expectations -- A Bubble? -- 23: Twinning and Branch Campuses: The Professorial Obstacle -- The Background of Teachers -- Attracting Top-Quality Faculty -- Conclusion -- 24: Franchising-The McDonaldization of Higher Education.

What's Wrong with It? -- 25: The Costs and Benefits of "Open Access" -- The Traditional System -- An Out-Of-Control System -- Problems -- A Way Forward? -- 26: Anarchy, Commercialism, and "Publish or Perish" -- Fake and Low-Quality Journals -- The Publish or Perish Syndrome -- Exploding Costs of Journals and Knowledge Products -- Potential Solutions -- 27: The Ambiguities of Working withThird-Party Recruiters -- Recruitment Agents' Deeds -- Other Information Sources -- Perverse Incentives -- False Arguments and Lost Opportunities -- Conclusion -- 28: Agents and Third-Party Recruiters in International Higher Education -- Old Ways and a New Wave -- Agents and Recruiters Enter -- The Actual Practices -- The Solution -- 29: Academic Freedom: A Realistic Appraisal -- A Bit of History -- Contemporary Confusion -- The Need for a New Consensus -- Current Problems -- 30: "Meddling" or "Steering": The Politics of Academic Decision Making in Hong Kong -- An International Perspective -- Academic Freedom or Not? -- 31: The Asian Higher Education Century? -- Major Impediments -- The Future of Asian Universities -- 32: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Asia: Endangered Species? -- A "Perfect Storm" of Problems for the Soft Sciences -- The Soft Sciences and General Education -- Current Realities -- Challenges -- 33: Chinese Challenges: Toward a Mature Academic System -- Unprecedented Expansion -- The Future of Expansion -- The Academic Profession -- Governance -- Building an Academic Culture -- Conclusion -- 34: Chinese Higher Education in an Open-Door Era -- Foreign Motivations and Programs -- Who Comes? -- Accreditation and Quality Assurance -- What To Do? -- 35: India's Higher Education Challenges -- A Pattern of Inadequate Investment -- Gigantic and Poorly Organized -- Politicization -- An Increasingly Dominant Private Sector -- Conclusion.

36: Getting Value for Money in Higher Education -- Value for Money? -- Conclusion -- 37: India's Effort to Join 21st-Century Higher Education -- Bureaucracy Without Accountability -- Location -- The Academic Profession -- Academic Culture and Governance -- Meritocracy at All Levels -- The Role of Research -- Resources -- Conclusion -- 38: The Achilles Heel of India's High-Tech Future: World-Class Universities -- The Current Debate -- What Is Needed -- Conclusion -- 39: Kerala: The Dilemmas of Equality in Higher Education -- Higher Education in the Mix -- Kerala's Higher Education Policies -- A Way Forward -- 40: India's Open Door to Foreign Universities -- The Political and Educational Context -- A Capacity Problem -- Why Welcome the Foreigners? -- The Half-Open Door -- A Likely Scenario -- About the Author and Coauthors.