CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
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2024
Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
Michael Møller 2020 We are meeting on the eve of your colloquium, which is why — when I was kindly asked to kick-start our discussion this evening — I thought it would be constructive to take a step back and begin with more of a bird’s-eye view. Specifically, I would...
Keynote Address
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
Michael Møller 2020 We are meeting on the eve of your colloquium, which is why — when I was kindly asked to kick-start our discussion this evening — I thought it would be constructive to take a step back and begin with more of a bird’s-eye view. Specifically, I would...
By way of conclusion
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
The University at the Crossroadsto a Sustainable Future. Much like the 11th Glion Colloquium in 2017, during the 12thColloquium there was less emphasis on the themes that are famil-iar among university leaders like financial sustainability, research opportunities,...
The Three (Four) Pillars of Sustainable Development or “The Great Race”
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Timothy Killeen I recall a slapstick film from back in the mid-1960s with the title The Great Race. In it, the quintessential hero (the Great Leslie, dressed in white, of course) is challenged by a despicable and traditionally melodramatic villain known as Professor...
The transformative power of the university
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Bert van der Zwaan The university is one of few institutions surviving the changes that have affected society over the past 800 years. Stemming from a period which was dominated by the church and feudal lords, it successfully negotiated the Renaissance and...
Technology and Humanity for Industry 4.0 and Learning 4.0
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Subra Suresh Scientific discoveries and engineering innovation are accelerating the unprecedented convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds to produce technological advances that are poised to disrupt and transform the daily lives of ordinary citizens...
Maintaining excellence in unstable times
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Leszek Borysiewicz The topic of this presentation is immediately current, even as I write this short summary. We sit at the beginning of May 2019 in the UK without any resolution to the long-running national debate that sur-rounds Brexit. This debate has polarized...
Traditional universities: challenges and opportunities
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Joël Mesot What is at stake? Never before has there been such a huge choice of providers of higher education as today. As this sector grows in reach and impact, it is also becoming more international. OECD data show that the mem -ber countries host more than 3.5...
The Global and the Local: Constructing a Distinctive Role for Universities in Shaping the Future
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
David W. Leebron We are meeting on the eve of your colloquium, which is why — when I was kindly asked to kick-start our discussion this evening — I thought it would be constructive to take a step back and begin with more of a bird’s-eye view. Specifically, I would...
The Challenges of a Liberal University
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Pratap Bhanu Mehta The modern Indian University dates back to the establishment of the three universities in the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in the middle of the 19th century. Indian higher education has taken diverse forms since then, from the...
The Meaning of Being Private in the Time of Great Change
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Atsushi Seike Learning is, by nature, a personal activity. From an economic perspective, increasing our income by acquiring knowledge and skills through study is an “investment”, and, furthermore, obtaining knowledge and learn-ing new skills are forms of “consumption”...
Out of the Academic Echo Chamber: universities embracing innovation from unexpected places
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Alice P. Gast The sometimes-surprising trends of the last three years, from the rise of populism to the distrust of expertise, have led many to accuse the global elite, and academics in particular, of being out of touch with society and stuck in narrow “echo...
Conversation is key — Universities and their responsibility for societal development
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Sabine Kunst In the winter of 1827/28, half of the city of Berlin — from the workers to the members of court society — listened to Alexander von Humboldt’s legendary Cosmos Lectures, which form the nucleus of his great work. At each lecture, hundreds of listeners...
Towards Sustainable Development — The Role of Universities in Lifelong Education
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Tan Eng Chye In this era of globalization and rapid change, the notion that a university is a place solely to get a degree will, in time, be superseded by a realization that even after graduating from university, none of us can afford to stop learning. The learning...
Pioneering Intellectuals and Innovation of Higher Education
2020
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Jaeho Yeom CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. The 21st century is transforming the social modes of human civiliza-tion at an unprecedented scale and speed. Digitization is changing the world. The massive transformation of working behaviour,...
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