Higher Education and the New World Islands

Special Supplement to the Latino(a) Review of Books (Fall 1996)
Guest Editors Margarita Benítez, University of Puerto Rico and Colbert I. Nepaulsingh, University at Albany, SUNY

Table of contents

Editors' Introduction

Universities in Puerto Rico and the Public Interest
By Margarita Benítez

The Caribbean

University Cooperation in the Caribbean
By Thomas Mathews

Higher Education and the Island Masses
By Colbert I. Nepaulsingh

Women's Studies in the Caribbean: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
By Yamila Azize Vargas

Public Policy and Higher Education: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and New York City
By María J. Canino

La educación superior en Cuba: Su desarrollo histórico y perspectivas en los umbrales del siglo XXI
By Elvira Martín Sabina

Propuestas para una nueva misión de la educación superior dominicana
By Rubén Silié

Apuntes para un proyecto de investigación sobre política pública y educación superior estatal en Puerto Rico
By Carlos Rodríguez-Fraticelli

Crisis fiscal o crisis de prioridades: Políticas fiscales y educación superior en Nueva York
By Ramón Bosque-Pérez

New York Puerto Ricans and Fiscal Policies in U.S. Higher Education: An Update on the Case of the City University of New York
By Camille Rodríguez

Reflections on Faculty Development in a Higher Education Consortium
By Yvonne González-Rodríguez and Barbara R. Sjostrom

Towards a Theory of New World Studies
By Colbert I. Nepaulsingh