Selected publications -
“The Research University in Transition: The Emerging Global Model” with Wanhua Ma and David Baker, Higher Education Policy, 21:5-27, 2008.
“The Emerging Global Model with Chinese Characteristics,” Higher Education Policy, 21:29-48, 2008.
“The Emerging Global Model of the Research University” (with Wanhua Ma and David Baker) in Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson, eds., Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. Joint publication of UNESCO and the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College (Rotterdam: Sense Publications, 2007)
“Higher Education Reform in China,” Journal of the Washington Institute of China Studies, Fall 2006.
“Liberal Education in an Asian Context,” International Educator, March/April 2006.
“Sino-American Educational Exchange and the Drive to Create World-Class Universities” in Cheng Li, ed., Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges 1978-2003 (Lexington Books, 2005).
“World-Class Universities and Reform in China,” International Higher Education, Spring 2005.
“Center and Periphery: The Changing Relationship Between the State and Institutions of Higher Education in China,” in proceedings of Xiamen University and University of Hong Kong conference on higher education reforms in China, December 2003.
“Chinese Universities and the Central Government,” International Higher Education, Fall 2003.
“What Next? Life After the Presidency,” Chronicle of Higher Education on-line, May 2003.
“A Lame Duck President Looks Back,” Chronicle of Higher Education on-line, April 2002.
“Making It Less Lonely at the Top,” Chronicle of Higher Education on-line, December 2001.
“Lessons From a President’s Sabbatical,” Chronicle of Higher Education on-line, August 2001
“Faculty Recruitment and Retention” in Diversity Blueprint: A Planning Manual, Association of American Colleges and Universities and the University of Maryland-College Park, September 1999.
“What Really Matters in the Liberal Arts,” Trusteeship, July/August 1999.
“Questioning Technology,” Liberal Education, Winter 1999.
“Demonstrating Our Claims,” Policy Perspectives, January 1995.
"Thinking About Diversity," in Mortimer Sellers, ed., Ethics and the University (Berg/Oxford, 1994).
"The Public Interest in Liberal Education," in David H. Finifter and Arthur M. Hauptman, eds., America's Investment in Liberal Education (Jossey-Bass, 1994).
“Emerging Issues for Liberal Arts Colleges,” White Paper No. 1, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1991.
"Public Service and Student Financial Aid" (with Susan Stroud) in Arthur M. Hauptman and Robert H. Koff, eds., Changing Roles and Responsibilities in Financing Higher Education (Macmillan, 1991).
"Principals and Agents in Campus Governance" in Jack H. Schuster and Lynn H. Miller, eds., Governing Tomorrow's Campus: Perspectives and Agendas (Macmillan, 1990).
"Unintended Consequences of Federal Student Aid Policies," Brookings Review, Fall 1987.
"Preparing Liberal Arts Students for Business" (with Marcie Shorr Hirsch) in Joseph S. Johnston, Jr., ed., Educating Managers: Executive Effectiveness Through Liberal Learning (Jossey-Bass, 1986).
"The Federal Interest in Lifelong Learning," background paper for the Lifelong Learning Project mandated by the U.S. Congress through the Higher Education Amendments of 1976.
Editor, Building Bridges Between Business and Campus, 1981-83.
Creator and editor of The Forum for Liberal Education, a case study newsletter on curricular innovations in higher education, 1978-81.