ABSTRACT
In essence, the overall purpose of this chapter is to explicate the presence and modification of how policies impact higher education in nations on multiple continents. That is, advanced Western industrialized nations and developing or emerging nations with the latter having been continually affected by macro policies and sociopolitical and historical conditions of the former. We will postulate that cooperative interactions between geopolitical regions and internal domestic demographical groups should be mutually beneficial – one of several aims stated by international organizations like the G-20 and the United Nations along with various American presidents and chancellors and prime ministers of various nations. This introductory chapter presents: 1) the selections and compositions of authors; 2) concepts and demarcations of policies; 3) principles and organization of the volume to delineate four thematic topics; and 4) creativities and realities for universities in changing eras.
