Volume 3, Number 5 contains:

• Does the Academy Need a New Mission? by Stephen Barnett, Donald L. Sparks and Lee Vickers.
• Participatory Evaluation, Accountability and Quality of Performance, and Quality Improvement by Mathew T. Joseph.
• ‘Cosmoportism’ and ‘UniverCity’ Today: Globalizing Education at Home and Abroad by Zekeh Gbotokuma.
• Bias of the Academy and Media Literacy: The Academy as a Cultural Institution by Yasmin Ibrahim.
• Creating Caring Organizations and Cultures through Communitarian Ethics by Marilyn Anne Ray.

• Training the Next Generation of Environmental Engineers: Development of an Interdisciplinary Engineering Program at Rutgers University by Christopher Uchrin.
• The Migratory Trends of International Baccalaureate Diploma Students in Asia Pacific: Going Global? by Judith Guy and John Switzer.
• The Role of Online Social Networking Sites in Promoting Health for Digital Natives and Immigrants by Diane Hamilton-Hancock and Leaunda Hemphill.
• Rethinking and Reframing Online Learning Environment Course Evaluations, to More Appropriately Reflect an Assessment of Course Design, Cognitive Scaffolding and Instructional Competence: Virtual Learning Expectations, Capability and Competence within Online Learning Professional Standards by Caroline M. Crawford.
• Australian PhD Theses in Selected Professional and Academic Disciplines1987-2006 and the Implications for Future Research Capacity by Terry Evans and Peter Macauley.
• Web 2.0 Based e-Learning Development Process by Katerina Papanikolaou and Stephanos Mavromoustakos.

From University World News

US research universities are under threat from the recession and social changes, Linda Katehi, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, told scientists at a recent American Association for the Advancement of Science policy forum.

Katehi said the two factors were combining to undermine universities. State support for universities was shrinking; in California, for example, state funding for the University of California was half what it was 25 years ago in real terms.

The result was big increases in tuition fees and these could go higher still, making university education unaffordable to many people.

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