Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Walter Archer and Hans G. Schuetze

1 How Central Is the “Principal Mission” of the University Today?

 Chris Duke



PART 1: Canada

2 Access to and Participation in Higher Education in Canada

 Hans G. Schuetze and Walter Archer

3 Aboriginal Higher Education and Indigenous Students

 Michelle Pidgeon

4 Minding the Gap: Perspectives on Graduate Education for Students with Disabilities

 Mahadeo A. Sukhai

5 Student Affairs and Services in Canadian Higher Education

 Kyle D. Massey



PART 2: The World

6 Reforms and Myths: University Graduates and the Labor Market in Mexico

 Wietse de Vries

7 Policies for Adult Students in Mexican Higher Education and Motives for Returning to Study

 Germán Álvarez Mendiola and Brenda Yokebed Pérez Colunga

8 The Value of Degrees and Diplomas in Japan

 Shinichi Yamamoto

9 MOOCs, Students, Higher Education and Their Paradoxes

 Maureen W. McClure

10 The Expansion of Higher Education and First Generation Students in Germany: Increasing Participation or Continuing Exclusion?

 Andrä Wolter

11 The Abolition of Tuition Fees in Germany: Student Protests and Their Impact, or Tuition Fees in Germany: In and Out

 Dieter Timmermann

12 Conditions of Learning at High-Ranked Universities in Four Countries: An International Student’s Perspective

 Jade Zhao



PART 3: Students and Their Influence on Higher Education Policies

13 Student Policies and Protests: The Student Movements of the 1960s and the 2012 Canadian “Maple Spring”

 Hans G. Schuetze

14 Collective Student Action and Student Association in Quebec

 Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée and Olivier Bégin-Caouette

15 European Higher Education Reforms and the Role of Students

 Pavel Zgaga

About the Author

Walter Archer, Ph.D. (1988), University of Alberta, is Professor Emeritus at that university. He previously served as Dean of Extension at the University of Saskatchewan, and as President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.

Hans G. Schuetze, Dr. jur. (1974), University of Göttingen, Germany, is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education Research and Policy, University of British Columbia. He formerly served as Policy Analyst, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the OECD, in Paris.