ABSTRACT
This book concerns how each higher education sector relates to the State and to the private sphere. It is concerned with private institutions as nonprofit institutions that face major dilemmas generally encountered by such institutions. Long monopolized by public universities established as direct delegates of the State, Latin American higher education is now very much divided into two sectors- private and public. In both the United States and Latin America, the shifting private-public balance is matter of great policy interest and debate, but the value orientations tend to be different. The policy debate highlights the importance of studying field directly involving millions of students, many thousands of professors, and large annual budgets. Indeed, higher education affects Latin America's political, economic, and social systems while it helps shape concerns from development to class to ideology. The Continental model, to use Burton Clark's apt label for the traditional European university, is a striking approximation of some ideal-typical notions of a public university.
