by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
John S. Brown, University of Southern California 2010 The educational needs of the 21st century pose a number of serious problems for current educational practices. First and foremost, we see the 21st century as a time that is characterized by constant change...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Frank Rhodes, Cornell University 2010 If “[a] week”, as the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once pointedly remarked, “is a long time in politics”, so also, a decade is a long time in higher education. It represents the graduation of two or three generations...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Michael Crow, Arizona State University 2010 While the Glion Colloquia have brought university leaders together to exchange perspectives on an array of critical issues confronting higher education, perhaps none is more imperative to consider than the role of the...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Dieter Lenzen, Free University of Berlin 2010 I do think that the terms Bildung and innovation can be contradictory, at least they express the inner conflict felt by a person, who is responsible for change in an institution — the university — and therefore for...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Bernd Huber, Ludwig Maximilian University 2010 For more than 200 years, the German university system has followed the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt — the unity of research and teaching, the freedom of teaching being the most important of Humboldt’s principles. These...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Frans Van Vught, University of Twente 2010 There is widespread agreement among economists that international forces have changed the nature of economic development (Soete, 2006). National markets have become increasingly interrelated, and goods, services, capital,...
