Challenges facing higher education at the millennium / edited by Werner Z. Hirsch and Luc E. Weber.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Survey of the main challenges facing higher education at the millennium / Luc E. Weber -- Meeting the challenges of the new millennium: the university's role / David P. Gardner -- The task of institutions of higher education in the new Europe / Paolo Blasi --- The twenty-first century university: a tale of two futures / James J. Duderstadt -- The university and the information age / Stanley O. Ikenberry -- The economics of higher education in the United States: what can other developed countries learn from it? / Harold M. Williams -- Financing universities through nontraditional revenue sources: opportunities and threats / Werner Z. Hirsch -- Networks and strategic alliances within and between universities and with the private sector / Hans J.A. van Gindel -- The research university's potential as an area's growth and prosperity stimulant / Peter Preuss -- Research and education: new roles, new instruments / Dennis Tschritzis -- Higher learning as a joint venture between state and industry: the example of the international university in Germany / Heide Ziegles -- Governance / Howard Newby -- Information age challenges to research libraries: crisis in the University of California library system / Charles F. Kennel, with the collaboration of Sharon E.R. Franks -- Lifelong learning in the university: a new imperative? / Alan Wagner -- Higher education in the twenty-first century: a European view / Jacob Nüesch -- Future challenges facing American higher education / Chang-Lin Tien -- The new university / Frank H.T. Rhodes -- The Glion declaration: the university at the millennium.