Foreword<br />1. A Straight Path to Academia?<br />2. Why Research on Higher Education?<br />3. Academic Careers: Highly Selective and Risky<br />4. Chicago and Other Horizons – Why not Anywhere Else?<br />5. Higher Education as a Focus of Research: The Aim of the Institute in Kassel<br />6. Efforts to Consolidate the Research Center amidst Declining Public Interest in Higher Education<br />7. The Elephants of Higher Education Research<br />8. Associations of Higher Education Researchers – A Special Hobby?<br />9. Institutional Consolidation: Continuing the old Activities or Taking on the Challenge of new Options?<br />10. Moving towards the Evaluative and Managerial University – New Challenges for Higher Education Research?<br />11. The Turn of the Century – A New Paradise or Growing Obsolescence of Higher Education Research?<br />12. On the Path towards International and Comparative Higher Education Research<br />13. European and Global Convergence Discourses – A New Framework for Higher Education Research<br />14. Moving towards Large International Research Consortia?<br />15. The Academic Entrepreneur – Changing Institutional Leadership over a Period of More than Three Decades<br />16. Does Research Need Managerial Virtuosity?<br />17. Publication Strategy<br />18. Higher Education Research and Higher Education Practice: ‘To Hear the Grass Grow'<br />19. Institutional and Biographical Development<br />20. Professional Life and the Role Played by Partner and Family<br />21. The Status Passage out of Institutional Responsibility<br />Index<br />Ulrich Teichler – Curriculum Vitae<br />Festschriften for Ulrich Teichler<br />Ulrich Teichler – Bibliography (June 2021)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Teichler worked as professor at the International Centre for Higher Education Research at the University of Kassel (INCHER-Kassel) from 1978 until 2013.