The Future of the University in a Polarizing World: Volume 11 (Glion Colloquium) - Softcover

Weber, Luc E.; Newby, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 283992272X ISBN 13: 9782839922722

Publisher: Association Glion Colloquium, 2017

Synopsis

This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the challenges facing Research Universities worldwide in an increasingly uncertain future. Breakthroughs in science and technology not only impact on the university’s fundamental missions – learning, scholarship and research – they can inadvertently, with globalization, deepen the divide between those who take advantage of the breakthroughs and those who are left out – those excluded are increasingly inclined to blame the elites, resulting in the rise of populist politics and growing mistrust of scientific truth. Universities must continue to carry out frontier research and prepare students for a world and labour market that might well be very different in ten years’ time. And, more than ever before, universities need to provide social as well as technical solutions to today’s challenges. If universities are part of the problem, then higher learning is in a key position to be part of the solution – provided universities respond with insight to the changes and crises of the 21st century

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Edited by Professor Luc E. WEBER and Sir Howard NEWBY, this book is a compendium of 20 contributions prepared by leaders of the world’s most distinguished universities for the XIth Glion Colloquium which took place in Switzerland in June 2017. Professor of public economics at the University of Geneva, Luc Weber served for more than 30 years in Higher Education and Research in Switzerland, Europe and the wider world. Rector of his University and President of the Swiss Rectors’ Conference, he then served numerous international university organizations, governmental and non-governmental. His excellent knowledge of the sector inspired him to create and conduct the Glion Colloquium. Howard Newby is Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been Vice-Chancellor of two other universities (Southampton and West of England), head of the UK Economic and Social Research Council and CEO of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He was formerly professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was knighted in 2000 for services to higher education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association Glion Colloquium
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 283992272X
• ISBN 13: 9782839922722
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244