Preface to university priorities and constraints
2016

by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Preface and Conclusion, Uncategorized

James Jim Duderstadt, University of Michigan; Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2016 Since its launch in 1998, the Glion Colloquium has established itselfas both a key international forum and a highly influential resource inaddressing the challenges and...

University research comes in many shapes
2016

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

Carlos de Brito Cruz, Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2016 In “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, written in 1937, (Flexner, 1955) Abraham Flexner described a conversation with George Eastman:tured to ask him whom he regarded as the most useful worker in science in...

From moocs to moors – a movement towards humboldt 2-0
2016

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...

Learning to think critically
2016

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...

Glion Colloquium – A Retrospective
2016

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...

Reinventing greatness – responding to urgent global level responsibilities
2016

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

Ihron Rensburg, University of Johannesburg 2016 In this chapter I reflect on the contemporary significance of knowledgeinstitutions, and particularly research universities, for both emerging andestablished economies and for the world as a whole, but with particular...