by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
John Niland, New South Wales University 2008 Despite the common image of isolated ivory towers, universities in point of fact have long embraced the world beyond their national horizon. Initially, scholars travelled from country to country in search of a student...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University 2008 Globalization is centre-stage in the contemporary world. It interests almost everyone. Education, alas, is back-stage somewhere in the midst of the props. It interests some of us. Globalization and education, together,...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Wayne Johnson, HP University Relations Worldwide 2008 The past decade has brought tumultuous change to industry, effectively rewriting the assumptions and rules of how global business is conducted and of where to locate one’s operations and why. The advancement of...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Bob Zemsky, University of Pennsylvania 2008 My purpose in this essay is to draw a distinction between being “global” and being “international”. I would like to begin, however, from a more personal perspective. For more than 40 years now I have spent a substantial...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2008 We live in a time of great change, an increasingly global society, driven by the exponential growth of new knowledge and knitted together by rapidly evolving information and communication technologies. It is a time of...
by GK | Jan 1, 2006 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions
Peter Brabeck- Lemathe, Nestlé 2006 Read the full article