by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Nam P. Suh, Korean advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) 2014 The historical development of research universities and their roles in society has been articulated in many articles and documents. Since their inception, distinguished research universities...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
John Niland, University of New South Wales 2014 A common wisdom is that we are now entering the Asian Century, having travelled the American century in the 1900s and the British century in the 1800s. This reflects the array of impressive economic indicators emerging...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Alain Beretz, University of Strasbourg 2014 during this symposium, we have addressed the question of the imbalance between educational need and educational capacity. Of course, this question has been asked in France. What are the answers? Are they adequate? Are they...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar, Indian Institute of Technology Dehli 2014 Education is the key to socio-economic development and character building. Higher education plays an important role in knowledge and wealth creation. Historically, one can find a good correlation...
by GK | Jan 1, 2012 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2012 One of the most vexing problems we face today in moving toward a more sustainable society is the problem of uncertainty and imperfect predictability of complex physical and biological phenomena. Such states of knowledge cause havoc when...
by GK | Jan 1, 2012 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Roberta Johnson Killeen, National Earth Science Teachers Association 2012 On a daily basis, people around the world face challenges that result from us all, together on our small planet, approaching the carrying capacity of our environment. The sustainability of...
