by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Patrick Aebischer, EPFL 2016 “The world is moving in the American direction. More universities in more countries are charging students tuition fees,” says The Economist (2015). Of course, there is more to the American university model than merely tuition. Many of us...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Yves Flückiger, University of Geneva 2016 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have attracted a lot of attention in the academic world in general and presidents’ officesmore particularly. But some worry that this model of teaching is a step back to a vertical and...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Lino Guzzella, ETHZ 2016 Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. (Confucian Analects, Wei zheng [Ho Peng Yoke, 2012]) Confucius explains to his students and scholars his ideas about how togain knowledge. In doing so, he...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Ronald Daniels, John Hopkins University 2016 The American research university has been celebrated as “the greatest system of knowledge production and higher learning that the world has ever known” (Cole, 2009). As measured by any number of factors — international...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Peter Scott, Kingston University 2016 Two Declarations, nine books, 180 chapters, 2,400 pages published overa 15-year span from 1999 to 2014 — by any standards the outputs ofthe regular meetings of the Glion Colloquium, held in Glion itself with the exception of one...
