CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Challenges in Establishing a Top Research University
2014
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Nam P. Suh, Korean advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) 2014 The historical development of research universities and their roles in society has been articulated in many articles and documents. Since their inception, distinguished research universities...
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...
Can the French System support competitive Research Universities
2014
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Alain Beretz, University of Strasbourg 2014 during this symposium, we have addressed the question of the imbalance between educational need and educational capacity. Of course, this question has been asked in France. What are the answers? Are they adequate? Are they...
Higher Education Model for Large Developing Economies
2014
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar, Indian Institute of Technology Dehli 2014 Education is the key to socio-economic development and character building. Higher education plays an important role in knowledge and wealth creation. Historically, one can find a good correlation...
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...
International STEM Education for Global Sustainability
2012
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Roberta Johnson Killeen, National Earth Science Teachers Association 2012 On a daily basis, people around the world face challenges that result from us all, together on our small planet, approaching the carrying capacity of our environment. The sustainability of...
A University Culture of Sustainability_Principle, Practice and Economic Driver
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Linda Katehi, UC Davis 2012 Sustainability — as we use the term in our classrooms, capitals and marketplaces — has evolved and taken on an almost mythical quality. The word is ripe with meaning, yet not well defined, and actions in the name of sustainability are...
Action is what counts. Sustainability at ETH Zurich and EPFL
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Patrick Aebischer, EPFL Lausanne 2012 Tackling the challenges of sustainable development requires critical thinking, innovative technologies and an open dialogue between science, industry, and society. As Swiss-based universities that are consistently high in the...
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...
Regional Engagement and Sustainability: University of Aveiro in Portugal
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Maria Héléna Nazare, European University Association 2012 In the framework of the demographic evolution foreseen up to 2050, major issues related to sustainability include: food, natural resources (water in particular) and energy. These “grand societal challenges”...
Global Governance, the Sustainability of International Institutions
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Thomas Biersteker, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development 2012 Given the complex interdependence of our contemporary world, the challenges of global governance are exceedingly daunting. The task is made all the more difficult because most of the...
Singapore: Successful in Research, Striving for Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Bertil Andersson, European Science Foundation 2010 Across the World, governments subscribe to the thesis that investment in research is a worthwhile public good for a number of reasons. Such investments are generally predicated on the view that research will lead...
KAUST: An International, Independent, Graduate Research University
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, KAUST 2010 Education, research and economic development are among the highest priorities established by King Abdullah for Saudi Arabia. An equally important overriding priority for him is the development of women for greater participation in 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...
Industry as a Catalyst of Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Wayne Johnson, HP University Relations Worldwide 2010 Success today hinges on our abilities to harness human potential, combine creativity with new knowledge and ensure economic impact is quickly derived from money spent on research. U.S. strength continues to lie in...
the Glion Colloquium
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