Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response

This book is an outcome of the symposium titled Global Challenge and
National Response, held in December 1998, sponsored by the Rockefeller
Foundation. It was convened by Dr. Patti McGill Peterson, the then Executive
Director of the Council on International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), which
is affiliated to the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York. The
papers presented at the symposium appeared in this book form after a gap of
17 years. This edited book on higher education in the 21st century consists of
nine essays. It emphasises the challenges of affording higher education due to
mounting numbers of students around the globe.