Universities and the Production of Elites: Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education (Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education)

This Book Explores How Universities As Organizations Influence And Construct The Production Of Academic Elites And Elitist Institutions. It Analyzes The Role Played By The Reorganization Of Higher Education (he) Institutions, Stimulated By New Performance-based Narratives Aimed At Building Attractiveness Towards Stakeholders Such As Governments, Prospective Employers, Academics, And Students. Based On American, European, And Asian Case Studies Of He Systems And Institutions Considered At Various Scales, The Volume Analyzes The Consequences Of Increasing Competition Between He Institutions Which Are Facing Challenges Such As The Internationalization Of Higher Education Supply, The Shortage Of Public Resources And The Structural Changes Of Labor Market Demands. It Argues That Policy Discourses And Tools, As Well As Assessment Devices Such As Rankings And Accreditation, Incentivize He Institutions To Develop Positioning Strategies That Contribute To Stratification And The Production Of Elites. It Will Be Of Great Interest To Students And Researchers In The Fields Of Higher Education, Sociology, And Education Policy. -- Back Cover. Introduction: Universities And The Production Of Elites -- Part I. Setting Up Narratives And Rationales -- Part Ii. Disruptive Policies Since The 1990s -- Part Iii. Organizing Competition Through Incentives: New Policy Devices -- Part Iv. University Strategies For Redesigning Higher Education As Stratified Systems -- Part V. The Production Of New Elites? Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise, Tobias Peter, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Universities and the Production of Elites (Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise, Tobias Peter)....Pages 1-29 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Excellence: On the Genealogical Reconstruction of a Rationality (Tobias Peter)....Pages 33-51 Opening the Black Box of the Elitism Dispositif: Graduate Schools in Economics (Jens Maesse)....Pages 53-79 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Stratification through a Binary Degree Structure in Finnish Higher Education (Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret)....Pages 83-101 How Effective Have Reform Policies Been in Redesigning the French Higher Education and Research System? (Catherine Paradeise)....Pages 103-125 The Global Ambitions of Irish Universities: Internationalizing Practices and Emerging Stratification in the Irish Higher Education Sector (Aline Courtois)....Pages 127-148 The Transition from ‘Rank Equality’ to Vertical Differentiation in the German Higher Education Sector (Manfred Stock)....Pages 149-171 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 The Production of Research Elites: Research Performance Assessment in the United Kingdom (Julian Hamann)....Pages 175-199 Organizational Change in Response to the German Excellence Initiative: A Case Study of Humboldt University of Berlin (Rachelle Esterhazy)....Pages 201-223 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 Grasping the Global with One Foot in China: The Rise of Chinese Schools of Management (Tupac Soulas)....Pages 227-249 Elite Business Schools and the Uses of Visibility (Jan Nespor)....Pages 251-270 How to Make it in(to) Management: The Role of Business Education in Changing Career Pathways in Germany (Alexander Mitterle)....Pages 271-297 Stratification Without Producing Elites? The Emergence of a New Field of Doctoral Education in Germany (Roland Bloch)....Pages 299-324 Front Matter ....Pages 325-325 Producing a Global Elite? The Endurance of the National in Elite American and British Universities (Jonathan Z. Friedman)....Pages 327-347 Academic Identity Constructions of the Écoles Normales Supérieures and the Challenges of Internationalization (Anne Schippling, Johannes Zimmermann, Maria Schmidt)....Pages 349-371 Afterword: New Institutional, Inhabited Institutional, and a Cultural-Organizational Approach to Studying Elites and Higher Education (Amy J. Binder)....Pages 373-385 Back Matter ....Pages 387-392 This text explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. Based on American, European, and Asian case studies of HE systems and institutions considered at various scales, the volume analyzes the consequences of increasing competition between HE institutions which are facing challenges such as the internationalization of higher education supply, the shortage of public resources and the structural changes of labor market demands