CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
INTRODUCTION: Respice, Prospice Higher Education A Decennial Review
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...
Innovation strategies of European Universities in the Triangle of Education, Research and Innovation
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Georg Winckler, University of Vienna 2010 In Europe, the first university started in Bologna in 1088 as “universitas magistrorum et scholarium”, a community of teachers and students. Its legitimacy was derived from a humanistic program; its activities consisted in...
New University Paradigms for Technological Innovation
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2010 In today’s global, knowledge-driven economy, leadership in innovation is essential to a nation’s prosperity and security. In particular, technological innovation — the transformation of new knowledge into products,...
The Next decade, a Challenge for Technological and Societal Innovations
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2010 About 25 years ago, the world entered a period that we can call — although it is not brutal or quasi-instantaneous, but progressive — a revolution, which is rooted in political and economic, as well as scientific and...
Universities and the Innovative Spirit
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
Glion Declaration II 2010 As we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it is useful to review the road that our global community has travelled. The dawn of the new millennium was a time not only of celebration, but also of optimism and hope....
BILDUNG and Innovation — a Contradictio in Adjecto for Today’s University Education
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...
The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Research Universities in Developing Countries
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Jamil Salmi, World Bank Tertiary Education 2010 Preoccupations about university rankings reflect the general recognition that economic growth and global competitiveness are increasingly driven by knowledge and that universities play a key role in that context....
The German Excellence Initiative: Changes, Challenges and Chances
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...
Doing Good by Doing Little: University Responsibility in a Violent Setting
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
John Waterbury, American University in Lebanon 2008 Lebanon’s very name evokes images of civil strife and destruction, of a society almost hopelessly divided and open to exploitation by state and non state actors well beyond its borders. It is estimated that as many...
The Challenge to European Universities in the Emerging Global Marketplace
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Howard Newby, Liverpool University 2008 Although the topic for this paper implies a focus on Europe, the issues I want to address are by no means limited to that continent. Without wishing to minimize the significance of national differences and continental...
Developed Universities and the Developing World: Opportunities and Obligations
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Robert. M. Berdahl, Association of American Universities 2008 Among the scores of books written during the past decade about globalization — so many, in fact, that some by different authors bear the same title 1 — none has captured as many readers as Thomas L. ...
Globalization of Research Universities in Korea
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Nam Pyo Suh, KAIST 2008 An important consequence of economic globalization is expected to be that only a few leading universities will dominate the world of higher education, just as a few companies are dominating different industrial sectors worldwide. Globalization...
The Globalization of Higher Education
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James J. Duderstadt, Luc E. Weber 2008 Today our world has entered a period of rapid and profound economic, social and political transformation based upon an emerging new system for creating wealth that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge and...
Reinvigorating Universities in an Entrepreneurial Age
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Carl Schramm, President Kauffman Foundation 2008 The global economy stands at a moment of extraordinary potential. The last three decades have produced steep gains in worldwide economic growth, led by a surge of innovative, entrepreneurial activity rooted in...
The Responsibilities of Universities to Promote a Sustainable Society
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2008 We are living in a period of deep and rapid changes which are offering great hopes for peace and prosperity, but which are also the source of important challenges and even threats. The direction of change will depend on the...
the Glion Colloquium
Representing a diverse range of backgrounds, regions and disciplines, our participants come from a variety of universities and countries, united by a shared passion for innovation and excellence in higher education in the service of society.
