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Excellence and Mass Higher Education in China and The United States

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Questioning Excellence in Higher Education

Part of the book series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series ((CHER,volume 3))

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Arizona State University in the United States and Sichuan University in China are strategic partners, with almost twenty collaborative projects ranging from language teaching to Mars exploration. In descriptive terms, the two universities are similar, yet their decision-making procedures and degrees of freedom are dissimilar. This chapter uses three units of analysis—institutional, national, and international—to examine issues of excellence in mass higher education in the two countries.

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Mohrman, K. (2011). Excellence and Mass Higher Education in China and The United States. In: Rostan, M., Vaira, M. (eds) Questioning Excellence in Higher Education. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series, vol 3. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-642-7_6

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