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Global Diversity in Higher Education Systems
2016

by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities

Howard Newby, University of Liverpool 2016 A persistent theme of the Glion Colloquium, almost since inception,has been the impact of globalization on higher education worldwide. Indeed the sixth colloquium, which took place in 2007, was devoted to this topic. (Weber...

The Future of universities-academic freedom – autonomy and competition revisited
2016

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...

The university in the 21st century
2016

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...

Intellectual change – creating the university of the 21st century
2016

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...

A business model for the 21st century european university
2016

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...

Converging paths- public and private research universities
2016

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...
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