CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Rethinking the Education Mission: teaching & Learning in the next decade
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Jean Chambaz, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities....
The Public-to-Private Shift in Universities: Consequences for Leadereship
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Patrick Prendergast 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in...
Campus Planning and the Future of the University: A Perspective from Singapore
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Tim Killeen 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in Cambridge, new...
The Importance of Philanthropy
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Leszek Borysiewicz, University of Cambridge 2016 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the...
The Future of universities-academic freedom – autonomy and competition revisited
2016
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Bernd Huber, Ludwig Maximilian University 2016 Over the last 50 years, universities and tertiary education have experienced a remarkable, unprecedented expansion. Europe, the continent with the oldest universities, provides a case in point: Before- World War II, only...
Converging paths- public and private research universities
2016
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Ronald Daniels, John Hopkins University 2016 The American research university has been celebrated as “the greatest system of knowledge production and higher learning that the world has ever known” (Cole, 2009). As measured by any number of factors — international...
The impact of China’s economic rise
2016
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Tony F. Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2016 China’s continuous economic rise in the last three decades has beenone of the most dramatic events in world history. In addition to liftinghundreds of millions people out of poverty, creating a huge...
Fault Lines in the Compact : Higher Education and the Public Interest in the United States
2014
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Ronald J. DANIELS, Johns Hopkins University 2014 The research university stands as one of the most admired and emulated of American institutions. Year after year, American universities dominate the international rankings of institutions of higher education. The demand...
Who is responsible for providing and paying for Higher Education
2014
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2014 Higher education (HE), more than most other goods or services, can be provided either by the public sector or the market. It can be also paid for either by the State (the taxpayers or lenders) or by private interests...
The Asian Tiger University Effect
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...
How and where are dominant funding models steering HE & Research?
2014
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Howard Newby, University of Liverpool 2014 We are living in a time of great economic uncertainty where governments are providing our universities with less resource, yet at the same time expecting to exert greater influence, through increasing regulation and a more...
Strategy in the Face of Uncertainty and Unpredictability
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...
Globalization, Universities and Sustainability Effects
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Research & Innovation
John Niland, New South Wales University 2012 More than ever, research universities live in an environment heavily impacted by the forces of globalization. Their strategic thinking continues to be influenced by robust competition in critical areas such as funding,...
Sustaining World Class Universities: Who Pays and How
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Howard Newby, University of Liverpool 2012 Higher education is now unarguably a global activity. In a digitally connected world, where capital and labour flow increasingly freely without hindrance from national boundaries, universities are no less subject to the...
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...
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