by LW | Jan 1, 2018 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Yves Flückiger and Pablo Achard 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800...
by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2016 During the years following the Great Depression and World War II,the United States launched a massive effort to provide educationalopportunities to all Americans. Returning veterans funded through the GI Bill...
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, 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, Governance and leadership
Chorh Chuan Tan, National University of Singapore 2016 In a world faced with profound challenges and opportunities, and drivenby rapid disruptive change, universities can play important transformativeroles. This paper argues that to be able to do so successfully a key...
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...
