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Most aim at resolving the conflict between the ideal of the Humboldtian model of an elite research university, and the demand for an open, accessible, and differentiated system of higher education that takes into account the pivotal role of higher education in the modern world and in a democratic and pluralistic society. Forces and factors at work in other countries have affected the timing and dynamics of system transformation, but the unification in the early 1990s ofthe two German states, in which higher education had very different structures and mandates, has played a great role in the matter.  \n74 Andrä Wolter  \nRÉSUMÉ  \nLes plusieurs cycles de débats et de réformes universitaires en Allemagne depuis 1945 se sont avérés modestes en comparaison avec les réformes actuelles, dont certaines sont déjà en vigueur tandis que dʼautres sont à lʼétude. La plupart des nouvelles réformes envisagent de résoudre la dissonance entre, dʼune part, la vision humboldtienne delʼuniversité dʼélite où domine la recherche scientifique, et dʼautre part, une insistance accrue sur lʼacceptation des exigences de la modernité, dela démocratie et du pluralisme. Les forces et les facteurs observés dansdʼautres pays industrialisés ont influencé la cadence et la dynamique des transformations allemandes mais en plus, la réunification des deux Allemagnes au début des années 1990 y est pour beaucoup. Lʼéducation  \npost-secondaire dans les Allemagnes de lʼOuest et de lʼEst fut différenteen matière de structure et de mandat. Lʼunification sʼavère un moteur dela réforme telle que vécue actuellement en Allemagne.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nIn the early 1990s, a new wave of debate and activity in German higher education policy grew out of a deep crisis in that nationʼs universities. Players in higher education policy responded with a broad array of reforms at federal and state levels and within individual institutions.  \nThere have been several cycles of debate and actual reform since WorldWar II, but the last may be the most important of them. Almost every element of the German higher education system is in question, and reform projects of the last 10–15 years add up to a nearly complete renovation of German higher education.  \nDespite their often contentious and sometimes uncertain status, the sheer range of reform schemes is fundamental and make them a“transformation” rather a “reform” (Wolter, 1999) . Transformation requires a bundle of reforms with systemic implications for the steering  \nThe Canadian Journal of Higher Education Volume XXXIV, No. 3, 2004  \nFrom State Control to Competition 75  \nand governance of higher education. Further, transformation includes both intentional reforms and consequent latent processes of social change. This intersection of planned and unplanned changes produces unintended effects alongside desired results—together with unwanted or even counterproductive side-effects.  \nGerman higher education is in transformation partly due to accumulated pressures, which vary not only from state to state but between various higher education institutions and faculties. Transformation is more tolerated than promoted by universities, especially by academic staff. The primary players in reform are the German states (including the federal state) and university managers. Despite prevailing conceptions of institutional autonomy, the state continues to implement new kinds of institutional steering, rather than","cbCaibfKPbnI8oug","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibfKPbnI8oug","pdf",215151,32,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# The Evolution of the Modern German University","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article call recent German higher education proposals more consequential than earlier post-1945 reforms?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the early 1990s wave was the most far-reaching, aiming to resolve systemic conflicts and creating transformation-level implications rather than limited adjustments.\"},{\"question\":\"What core tension does the article identify as central to the reform agenda?\",\"answer\":\"The reforms seek to address the conflict between the Humboldtian model of an elite, research-focused university and demands for an open, accessible, and differentiated higher education system.\"},{\"question\":\"How did German unification in the early 1990s influence transformation in higher education?\",\"answer\":\"The article states that unification played a great role by bringing together systems with different structures and mandates, thereby acting as a key driver of the reforms experienced at the time.\"}]","From State Control to Competition - German Higher Education Transformed | PDF",1792084678,81]