CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
The Story of the Cambridge Taxi Driver and the Future of the University
2018
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Bert van der Zwaan 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...
National Strategy for Higher Education and Research: Challenges and Pitfalls from a French Perspective
2018
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Alain Beretz 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 Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative as a Test bench of the Future of Universities
2018
Chapters and other contributions Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Yves Flückiger and Pablo Achard 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...
Adapting the university to the constraints. Responsibilities and opportunities of a new age
2016
Chapters and other contributions Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2016 During the years following the Great Depression and World War II,the United States launched a massive effort to provide educationalopportunities to all Americans. Returning veterans funded through the GI Bill...
The university in the 21st century
2016
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2016 The University is one of the greatest inventions of the second millennium (Rhodes, 1998). Europe can be particularly proud of this, given that the University is first and foremost a European institution which — while keeping its...
University leadership and governance
2016
Chapters and other contributions Governance and leadership
Chorh Chuan Tan, National University of Singapore 2016 In a world faced with profound challenges and opportunities, and drivenby rapid disruptive change, universities can play important transformativeroles. This paper argues that to be able to do so successfully a key...
A business model for the 21st century european university
2016
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Patrick Aebischer, EPFL 2016 “The world is moving in the American direction. More universities in more countries are charging students tuition fees,” says The Economist (2015). Of course, there is more to the American university model than merely tuition. Many of us...
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...
Glion Colloquium – A Retrospective
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...
The social and political responsibilities of research universities
2016
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Alain Beretz, University of Strasbourg 2016 This paper attempts to come up with possible answers to the question:“What do universities consider to be their most important prioritiesand responsibilities in 1) addressing the challenges facing their institutions; and 2)...
The search for Quality at Chinese Universities
2014
Chapters and other contributions Governance and leadership
Jie Zhang & al., Shanghai JiaO Tong University 2014 along with China’s booming economy, the past three decades have seen tremendous progress in higher education in China. In 1982, only 1% of 18- to 22-year-olds had the opportunity to participate in higher...
A Research University for both Academic Excellence and Responsibility for a sustainable future – does the Swedish model work?
2014
Chapters and other contributions Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Eva Akesson, Uppsala University 2014 Sweden has for a long time been spared from armed conflicts and major disruptive social problems. During the past decades, we have gone from a homogeneous state to an increasingly diverse and diverged country. In an international...
The Strategic Repositioning of Research Universities to fulfil their Global Promise
2014
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Heather Munroe-Blum & al. 2014 The relevance of universities has become a theme of public debate, reflecting the anxiety and excitement surrounding changing forces in the larger context of globalization, as well as widespread concern with regard to basic economic...
The Impact of Technology on Discovery and Learning
2014
Challenges Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
James J. Duderstadt 2014 Année parution Today, our world has entered a period of rapid and profound economic, social and political transformation driven by knowledge and innovation. Educated people, the knowledge they produce and the innovation and entrepreneurial...
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