America in the World: Higher Education and the Global Marketplace

by Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson

Higher education is in a period of significant transformation globally, with universities influenced by market forces and everywhere asked to be responsive to demands from students, the society, and the state.

Beyond Rankings: Towards Benchmarking of Tertiary Education Systems

How does one explain the passion for university rankings, despite the fact that they have so many conceptual and methodological limitations? This article examines this question and how to use comparative data in a constructive and critical way.

The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States.

by Patty McAllister, Nathan Bell, and Belle Woods

After receiving one of the prestigious Fulbright S&T awards in 2008, Rameseder began his graduate studies in computational and systems biology at MIT, where he investigates the complex signaling networks that determine the outcome of stem and cancer cells. 

The 60th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Austria 1950 - 2010: Seeing the World as Others See It

People in the Spotlight: an Interview with Lonnie Johnson of the Austrian-American Educational Commission