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In today's world, higher education faces important opportunities and challenges, many of which are new and unexpected. The increased complexity of higher education institutions themselves is reflected in the expansion of their roles and responsibilities. These roles and responsibilities include: greater demands for regional engagement and other service role activities (the so called Third Role), internationalisation and cross-border education, the requirement that the research component of institutions accommodate and support the emergence of new scientific fields; the need to manage multiple financial resources with an increasing level of sophistication, and the greater risk involved; compliance with the social assumption that the good professional behaviour of individuals is rooted in the quality of the teaching-learning process offered in higher education institutions; responding to the calls for corporate social responsibility as applicable to higher education institutions. In addition, institutions are subject to increased scrutiny and calls for transparency, accountability and dialogue from internal and external stakeholders. This paper provides a review of some relevant experiences and approaches in different parts of the world and a preliminary analysis of the usefulness of taking an international approach in developing, and implementing guidelines or codes of ethics or of conduct in the management of higher education institutions. Appended are: (1) Corporate Social Responsibility in Higher Education; and (2) Useful Resources and Documents. (Contains 10 endnotes.)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert