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The two books reviewed here speak to long-term trends in higher education. The transition from elite to mass to “universal” participation, now accomplished or well underway in many countries, is explored by sociologist Martin Trow in essays first published between 1961 and 2006, while a still-nascent move toward internationalization in US higher education is investigated in a collection of essays, originating from a TIAA-CREF Institute conference held in 2008, edited by D. Bruce Johnstone, Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio, and Paul J. Yakoboski.
It is tempting to read internationalization as a future step in the trend toward universal higher education, which Trow presents pretty much in national terms. Still, as these books underline, while the US led other countries in broadening access to college for our own population (Trow), it may be harder to adapt our system of higher education to a globalized world (Johnstone, d'Ambrosio, and Yakoboski).
Mary Taylor Huber is senior scholar emerita and consulting scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has written extensively about changing faculty cultures in U.S. higher education, focusing especially on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is coauthor, with Pat Hutchings, of The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005).
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