Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, and Yaroslav Kuzminov (eds): The global future of higher education and the academic profession: the BRICs and the United States: Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013, 224 pp, Hardback, ISBN 9780230369788

High Educ (2013) 66:637639 DOI 10.1007/s10734-013-9632-x BOOK REVIEW Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, and Yaroslav Kuzminov (eds): The global future of higher education and the academic profession: the BRICs and the United States Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013, 224 pp, Hardback, ISBN 9780230369788 Ararat L. Osipian Published online: 2 May 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The BRICs and the United States offers descriptions of higher education systems and their contextual settings in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, as well as their comparison to the US. According to Simon Schwartzman, faculty in public universities in Brazil enjoy the status of civil servant, which brings a relatively high pay, tenure, job security, early retirement, and numerous other perks and benets. [...]many faculty members work in private colleges and have to teach several part-time jobs in order to maintain their income level at a socially acceptable level. [...]one distinct feature of all BRIC countries is that their professoriate is clearly underpaid.