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"The academic profession all over the world has experienced substantial and rapid changes of its societal, institutional and academic environment. The gradual move towards the knowledge society provided opportunities for a growth of the number of academics but the challenges to reconsider the professional role were by no means without any hardship. The authors of this volume address four areas of key challenges to the academic profession. What do the rising expectations to generate and disseminate relevant knowledge mean: a leap from 'scholarship of discovery' to 'scholarship of application' or new combinations of discovery with social, economic and cultural implications? How does internationalisation affect academics: as a step towards a cosmopolitan academic world or as legalistic competition on world scale? How does the growing power of institutional management shape the academic role: Does the dependent 'knowledge worker' substitute the 'republic of scholars', or is there a new space for academic freedom and responsibility? What does the expansion of graduate education mean: an extension of school-type learning towards the doctorate, or an increased chance of open discourse between senior academics and academics in their formative years? The papers comprised in this volume were presented to a workshop held on 5-6 September 2006 in Kassel, Germany. It was initiated and supported by the Regional Scientific Committee Europe and North America of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, jointly prepared with scholars collaborating in the international comparative survey 'The Changing Academic Profession' scheduled for 2007, and locally organized by the International Centre for Higher Education Research, University of Kassel. The authors addressed the challenges named both comparatively and with emphasis on the experiences from their countries." (author's abstract). Contents: Maurice Kogan, Ulrich Teichler: Key Challenges to the Academic Profession and its Interface with Management: Some Introductory Thoughts (9-18); John Brennan: The Academic Profession and Increasing Expectations of Relevance (19-28); Akira Arimoto: Reflections on the Changing Relevance of the Academic Profession in Japan (29-48); Jesus Francisco Galaz-Fontes, Laura Padilla-Gonzalez, Manuel Gil-Anton: The Increasing Expectation of Relevance for Higher Education and the Academic Profession: Some Reflections on the Case of Mexico (49-64); V. Lynn Meek: Internationalisation of Higher Education and the Australian Academic Profession (65-80); Futao Huang: Challenges of Internationalization of Higher Education and Changes in the Academic Profession: A Perspective from Japan (81-98); Agnete Vabo: Challenges of Internationalization for the Academic Profession in Norway (99-110); Barbara M. Kehm: The Changing Role of Graduate and Doctoral Education as a Challenge to the Academic Profession: Europe and North America Compared Barbara (111-124); Hong Shen: Challenges on the Academic Profession Development Posed by the Changing Doctoral Education in China (125-144); Martin J. Finkelstein: The "New" Look of Academic Careers in the United States (145-158); Maurice Kogan: The Academic Profession and its Interface with Management (159-174); Christine Musselin: Transformation of Academic Work: Facts and Analysisistine Musselin (175-190); Mary Henkel: Shifting Boundaries and the Academic Profession (191-204).