Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

Maria Yudkevich is Vice Rector and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. She is the coeditor (with Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Gregory Androushchak, and Iván F. Pacheco) of Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts. Philip G. Altbach is Research Professor and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He is the author and editor of many books, including (with William A. Smith and Kofi Lomotey) The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education: Continuing Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition, also published by SUNY Press. Laura E. Rumbley is Lecturer and Associate Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, and coauthor (with Philip G. Altbach and Liz Reisberg) of Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution.