November 16, 2007

State Digest: Report Advises American Colleges to Learn From Practices Overseas, and Other News From the States

By Karin Fischer

Other countries have long looked to the United States as a model for higher education, but American college leaders and public officials could learn from their counterparts abroad, according to a new report from the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley.

The report, "The Crisis of the Publics," is the result of a symposium held on the Berkeley campus in March that assembled experts from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.