Higher Education Across the Circumpolar North: A Circle of Learning

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Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 10	1349423319
Book Format	Paperback
Book Description	This is the first book to analyze the role of the new circumpolar universities in northern development. Since 1960, over twenty new universities have been built in the northern regions of Canada, Russia, the United States, the Nordic countries and Japan. This book analyzes and compares the reasons for their establishment, the impact they have had in providing greater access to advanced education, and the effect they have had on economic, social, cultural and political development of these various northern regions.
Publication Date	1 January 2002

ISBN 13	9781349423316
Author	D. Nord
Language	English
About the Author	SHIGEO ARAMATA President of Kushiro Public University of Economics, Japan PETER ARBO Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Community Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway INGO RUNAR EDVARDSSON Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Akureyri, Iceland NARVE FULSÅS Professor of History, University of Tromsø THORSTEINN GUNNARSSON Rector, University of Akureyri, Iceland DIDDY M. HITCHINS Professor of Political Science and Director of Canadian Studis Program, University of Alaska PER LANGGÅRD Prorector, University of Greenland KJELL LUNDMARK Professor of Political Science, University of Umeå, Sweden ESKO RIEPULA Rector, University of Lapland, Finland NICOLAI TOIVONEN Vice-Rector, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia VICTOR VASILIEV Rector, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia
Number of Pages	216 pages

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