Universities are under pressure. Their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased and demographic shifts are changing higher educational needs. This volume provides a cross-national picture of how the university as an organization is reacting to, adapting to, and threatened by a period of intense pressure.

Introduction: The University under Pressure - Elizabeth Popp Berman and Catherine Paradeise PART I: THE UNIVERSITY UNDER PRESSURE AN OVERVIEW The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: An Organization Field Perspective - W. Richard Scott and Manuelito Biag Nested Organizational Fields: Isomorphism and Differentiation among European Universities - Otto Huther and Georg Krucken PART II: PRESSURES AT THE FIELD LEVEL The Emergent Action Field of Metrics: From Rankings to Altmetrics - Catherine Paradeise and Ghislaine Filliatreau Student Loans as a Pressure on U.S. Higher Education - Elizabeth Popp Berman and Abby Stivers Mapping the Network of North American Colleges and Universities: A New Approach to Empirically Derived Classifications - Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur Codes of Commerce and Codes of Citizenship: A Historical Look at Students as Consumers within US Higher Education - Daniel Lee Kleinman and Robert Osley-Thomas PART III: IMPACTS ON THE ORGANIZATION The Changing Finances of Public Higher Education Organizations: Diversity, Change, and Discontinuity - Sondra N. Barringer Reconciling the Small Effect of Rankings on University Performance with the Transformational Cost of Conformity - Craig Tutterow and James A. Evans Universities, Academic Careers, and the Valorization of ‘Shiny Things’ - Joseph C. Hermanowicz Going Interdisciplinary in French and US Universities: Organizational Change and University Policies - Severine Louvel Draw Me a University: Organizational Design Processes in University Mergers - Julien Barrier and Christine Musselin Selling Students: The Rise of Corporate Partnership Programs in University Career Centers - Daniel Davis and Amy Binder PART IV: WHAT FUTURE FOR THE UNIVERSITY? UC Berkeley’s Adaptations to the Crisis of Public Higher Education in the U.S.: Privatization? Commercialization? or Hybridization? - George W. Breslauer This Time It Really May Be Different - Irwin Feller Two Continents Divided by the Same Trends? Reflections about Marketization, Competition, and Inequality in European Higher Education - Pedro Teixeira About the Authors. Copyright page. Editorial Advisory Board. The University Under Pressure. List of Contributors. Research in the sociology of organizations. The University Under Pressure.