Higher Education – What Else?

The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research. The economic miracle and university expansion, the student movement, experiments and crises of the 1970s, organisational breakdown, reunification, internationalisation, ranking and management cult – all these are historical stages that are reflected in higher education and science. Ulrich Teichler, directly involved, reports with openness and humour, presenting clever analyses.

History of the book: Some years ago, a few younger scholars made two suggestions to round off Ulrich Teichler’s involvement in higher education research. First, they asked him to sponsor an annual Ulrich Teichler Prize fir the best doctoral dissertation and the best master thesis in the area of higher education research at universities in German-speaking countries and regions in Europe. The Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf) takes care of the Prize since 2008. Second, they interviewed him quite a couple of evenings. This eventually provided the basis of an auto-biographical book: Ulrich Teichler. Hochschulforschung, was sonst? Rückblick auf ein Wissenschaftlerleben. Gespräche mit Anna Kosmützky und Christiane Rittgerott (Higher Education Research - What Else? Retrospect to a Academic Life. Conversations with Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott). Opladen: Budrich Academic Press, 2020 (ISBN  978-3-96665-023-6). As some colleagues deplored that text is only accessible for German-speaking colleagues, the author took care for a somewhat modified version in the English language.

Ulrich Teichler (2022). Higher Education – What Else? The Story of a Lifetime. In Conversation with Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott. Opladen: Budrich Academic Press. ISBN 978-3-96665-058-8