by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Meric Gertler, University of Toronto 2016 Within the past decade, an increasingly pervasive view argues that“the world is flat”, and that location matters less and less whenit comes to economic activity (Friedman, 2005). Information and communication technologies are...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Bernd Huber, Ludwig Maximilian University 2016 Over the last 50 years, universities and tertiary education have experienced a remarkable, unprecedented expansion. Europe, the continent with the oldest universities, provides a case in point: Before- World War II, only...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2016 The University is one of the greatest inventions of the second millennium (Rhodes, 1998). Europe can be particularly proud of this, given that the University is first and foremost a European institution which — while keeping its...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Linda Katehi, UC Davis 2016 Change has typically come so slowly to higher education that someeducators have been known to tell a joke about a man, similar toRip Van Winkle in the classic Washington Irving short story by the same name, who woke up after being asleep...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Atsushi Seike, Keio University 2016 It goes without saying that universities are social entities, and the very meaning of their existence is directly related to whether they can serveand benefit society. Although this may vary widely among universities, and an...
