Survival of the Fittest: The Shifting Contours of Higher Education in China and the United States

The multiple roles of higher education have been made all the more complex in an era replete with drivers of change, such as globalization, an increasingly competitive environment, insufficient financial resources, the knowledge economy, the future of the nation, the quest for civic mission of higher education, to name a few. As a result, ‘‘where do we go from here’’ has become a question facing constituencies of higher education worldwide. This is also a question that we are attempting to answer in this book.