Manja Klemencic is Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology of Higher Education and in General Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University and Associate Researcher, Centre of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. Manja's main research is on students' impact on higher education through representation, service roles, campus employment, consumerism, and activism. She also works on student agency in student-centered learning and teaching, and a broad range of other higher education topics. Since 2014, Manja serves as Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Higher Education, and since 2015 as Co-Editor of the academic book series Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education. She co-edited The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions (Springer, 2020) and The Routledge International Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020). Manja won multiple awards for excellence in teaching at Harvard, and regularly acts as a consultant for international organizations and governments on higher education policies and programs.

Chapter 1. Introduction: From actors to reforms in European higher education (Manja Klemencic)

¿Chapter 2. Pavel Zgaga - actor in reforms of higher education (Slavko Gaber)

Part I. Reforming European Higher Education

Chapter 3. The silent treks of transformative thinkers and successful reformers in higher education: a European experience (Liviu Matei)

¿Chapter 4. The Myth of Power: Governing Reform in the Bologna Process of Higher Education (Robert Wagenaar)

¿Chapter 5. From the EHEA to the EEA: renewed state-making ambitions in the regional governance of education in Europe (Susan L. Robertson et al)

¿Chapter 6. Pavel Zgaga and Bologna actors: policymaking on the External Dimension and the Bologna Policy Forum, 2003-2009 (Anne Corbett)

¿Chapter 7. Cooperation in Higher Education Before and Beside the European Higher Education Area: Slovenia and Austria (Elsa Hackl)

¿Chapter 8. Higher Education in two countries from ex-Yugoslav Federation: thirty years of constitutional embracement (Aleksa BjeliS)

Part II. Global Challenges to Higher Education Reforms

¿Chapter 9. Actors and Actorhood in Higher Education Regionalisms (Meng-Hsuan Chou)

¿Chapter 10. Agents of global competition in the international student market (Janja Komljenovic)

¿Chapter 11. The Diffusion of Higher Education Reforms from the Global North. The case of Sub-Saharan Africa (Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu)

¿Chapter 12. Reforms in Quality Assurance: A Response to Recent Challenges in a Transforming Higher Education Sector (Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic)

¿Chapter 13. Higher Education in Europe in the Context of Global Developments (Barbara M. Kehm)

Part III. Social Dimension in Higher Education and Democracy

¿Chapter 14. Unpacking the Social Dimension of Universities (Peter Scott)

¿Chapter 15. Tuition fees and university reforms (Zdenko Kodelja)

¿Chapter 16. The democratic role and public responsibility of higher education and science (Åse Gornitzka and Peter Maassen)

¿Chapter 17. Education for democracy: balancing intellectual rigor and political action (Sjur Bergan)

Part IV. Teachers and Teacher Education, Academics and Academic Profession

¿Chapter 18. Teacher education as part of higher education: The mission and challenges (Hannele Niemi)

¿Chapter 19. The transformative potential of doctoral networks in teacher education: A European perspective (Vasileios Symeonidis and Michael Schratz)

¿Chapter 20. Academics, Neo-Liberalism and English Higher Education: Decline and Fall (Ian Jamieson et al)

¿Chapter 21. Global Vertical Stratification of Institutions and the Academic Profession: The Role of Research in Future High Participation Environments (Marek Kwiek)

¿Chapter 22. Impact of internationalization strategies on academics' international research activities. Case study of the three HE peripheries: Slovenia, Croatia, and Lithuania (Alenka Flander et al)

Index