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UNIVERSITY RESPONSES TO THE MARKET IN CHINA, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Kathryn Mohrman Arizona State University Presented at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers Porto, Portugal, 10 September 2009. Fundamental questions.
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UNIVERSITY RESPONSES TO THE MARKET IN CHINA, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Kathryn Mohrman Arizona State University Presented at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers Porto, Portugal, 10 September 2009
Fundamental questions • How are universities in China, Europe and the US responding to global competition and the growing influence of rankings? • Which institutions have the strongest competitive base? • Who is most likely to succeed?
Case study universities • China • Sichuan University (SCU) • Tianjin University (TJU) • Beijing Normal University (BNU) • Peking University (PKU) • Tsinghua University (THU) • Europe • University of Oxford (OXF) • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) • Paris 06--Pierre and Marie Curie (P06)
United States • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • University of California, Berkeley (UCB) • University of Michigan (UM)
Areas of inquiry, 2003 and 2007 • Enrollment • Staffing by categories • University budgets • Research expenditures • Publications in SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI • Rankings Problems of comparability but…
What’s special here? • How national priorities are implemented at the institutional level • Unpublished data from Chinese universities • Interesting comparisons, especially between Chinese and European universities
Rankings Look at handouts
Conclusion • Universities worldwide are pushing hard on research and publications • American universities still lead but growth is lower than Europe or China • Top Chinese universities are reaching funding levels comparable to European universities • Chinese scholars not highly regarded • Is world-class status an appropriate goal?