Convergencia de modelos y el mercado mundial de la educación superior: El reto para la excepción estadounidense

Model convergence and the global higher education market: The challenge to U.S. exceptionalism

Nicolas Gachon (1, 2)

1 EMMA - Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone
2 UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3

This article deals with the U.S. higher education system from an organizational, political and economic angle. The analysis falls into the policy studies category and uses the framework of model convergence as well as a number of prisms (historical, ideological, and geopolitical) to assess the long-term implications of U.S. higher education's early adherence to market norms. The argument is that the historical construction of a distinctively U.S. higher education model, one that became the global source of policy transfer after the 1980s, and precisely for that same reason, ultimately led to a relative erosion of U.S. higher education's competitive edge at the turn of the twenty-first century. For the United States, one-way external policy transfer conveyed an implicit geostrategic challenge from the outset: in higher education as in other fields, exporting requires sustained renewal capacity to secure the model status of the export source.

Mots clés: higher education market; model convergence; policy transfer; Bologna Process; international students; globalization; U.S. higher education; higher education systems

Domaines: Histoire; Science politique; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Nicolas Gachon. Convergencia de modelos y el mercado mundial de la educación superior: El reto para la excepción estadounidense. Revista Dimensión Empresarial, 2013, 11 (1), pp.11-22. ⟨10.15665/rde.v11i1.157⟩. ⟨hal-02817794⟩