The VIII Glion Colloquium was held in June 2011 to consider the roles that could be played by the world’s research universities in addressing the various challenges of global sustainability in the broadest sense, e.g., climate, environmental, economic, health, poverty and geopolitical.
Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt (eds)
Economica, Glion Colloquium Series Nr. 7, London, Paris, Genève
The VIII Glion Colloquium was held in June 2011 to consider the roles that could be played by the world’s research universities in addressing the various challenges of global sustainability in the broadest sense, e.g., climate, environmental, economic, health, poverty and geopolitical. Of particular interest was the degree to which the imperatives of global sustainability were driving change in higher education around the world. This included considerations not only of how research universities were adapting to the imperatives of global sustainability (e.g., social diversity, resource management, academic programs, research and scholarship), but also how they could develop new curricula, student experiences, research paradigms, social engagement and international alliances to better address the challenges of global sustainability, while producing globally identified citizens. The Colloquium also considered longer-term possibilities that might pose even greater threats to global sustainability and how universities could prepare their graduates for such eventualities.
Detailed Information
- Published 2012, London, Paris & Geneva
- Economica, 283 pp, € 29.95
- Glion Colloquium Series #7
- ISBN 978-2-7178-6113-6
- Order at Economica Paris
- Order at Amazon
- Free PDF
- Also available at the Open Archives of the University of Geneva
EUROPE
- Prof. Patrick AEBISCHER, President, Federal
Institute of Technology, Lausanne - Prof. Alain BERETZ, President, University of
Strasbourg - Prof. Thomas BIERSTECKER, Graduate Institute
of International Studies and Development,
Geneva - Prof. Ralf EICHLER, President, Federal Institute
of Technology, Zurich - Prof. Bernd HUBER, President, Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität, Munich; president
LERU - Prof. Pascal MORAND, Dean, ESCP, Paris
- Prof. Maria Helena NAZARE, President elect
European University Association (EUA) - Prof. Howard NEWBY, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Liverpool - Prof. Luc WEBER, Rector emeritus, University
of Geneva - Prof. Georg WINCKLER, Rector, University of
Vienna, past president European University
Association (EUA)
OBSERVERS AND GUESTS
- Dr. Michel BENARD, University-industry
relations, Google Europe - Prof. Yves FLUECKIGER, Vice-Rector, Uni. of
Geneva - Prof. Jean PAVLEVSKI, Founder and CEO
Economica publishing Co. - Prof. Jean-Marc RAPP, President European
University Association (EUA) - Dr. Fritz SCHIESSER, President, Board Federal
Institute of Technology
NORTH AMERICA
- Prof. Jared COHON, President, Carnegie Mellon
- Prof. J. Jim DUDERSTADT, President Emeritus,
University of Michigan - Dr. Roberta JOHNSON-Killeen, Executive
Director, National Earth Science Teachers
Association - Prof. Linda KATEHI, Chancellor, UC-Davis
- Dr. Timothy KILLEEN, Associate Director for
Geosciences, National Science Foundation - Prof. Heather MUNROE-BLUM, Principal, McGill,
Montreal - Prof. Rafael RANGEL, Chancelor, Tecnologico de
Monterrey System - Prof. Charles M. VEST, President National
Academy of Engineering, President Emeritus
MIT
ASIA-OCEANIA
- Prof. M. S. ANANTH, President, IIT Madras,
India - Prof. John NILAND, President Emeritus,
University of New South Wales, Australia
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Prof. Yuko HARAYAMA, Deputy director,
Directorate for Science, technology and
industry, OECD - Dr. Anne-Marie LEROY, Senior Vice-President
and General Counsel, The World Bank Group