Synopses & Reviews
Taking a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is critical at this time. The university is being refashioned, often by forces out of the control of academics, students, and even administrators. However, there remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the directions that the university can take. This book maps both the historical factors and the alternative futures of the university. Whereas most books on the university remain focused on the European model, this volume explores models and issues from non-Western perspectives as well.
Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university, and they thoughtfully assess these changes.
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Important issues and valuable material for anyone with a specialist interest in the subject.Long Range Planning
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A very impressive collection... This book arrives just-in-time for universities that want a future.Gordon Prestoungrange Global President, International Management Centers (IMC)
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Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley have responded to the present crises of higher education by bringing together a must-read collection of papers. Firmly grounding their work on past trends, both the Western and Non-Western authors of these papers challenge conventional thinking as they explore possible, probable, and preferable futures for the university. A first-rate piece of work that might help us avoid a potential coming educational catastrophe.Professor Wendell Bell Emeritus Professor of Sociology Yale University
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"A very impressive collection... This book arrives just-in-time for universities that want a future." - Gordon Prestoungrange Global President, International Management Centers (IMC)
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This book is a `must' reading for all professionals in higher education and those policy makers who have influence upon the direction of higher education in the U.S. as well as other countries....While thoughtful in insight, it is also practical in ideas. Anyone who reads it will come away with the importance of higher education and its role in building a global society where humanity will ultimately prevail.Professor Glenn K. Miyataki President, The Japan-America Institute of Management Science Honolulu, Hawaii
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This book is admirably comprehensive. Its authors look at the impact on universities of all the major trends of our times. Even better, they go beyond the usual western focus and attempt a genuine world view. A very stimulating contribution to the debate.Sir John Daniel Vice-Chancellor The Open University
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Inayatullah and Gidley have edited a book that breaks the frame of more conventional approaches and poses a number of wider civilizational questions that should concern everyone. They have assembled a group of scholars who collectively span a very broad array of cultures and circumstances. In so doing, they breathe fresh air into an all-too-often stultified arena.... [I]t is certainly a book that should be read and pondered upon by all those seeking more vibrant alternatives for currently hard-pressed universities.Foresight
Synopsis
Leading scholars examine the future of the university based upon historical and emerging issues and trends.
Synopsis
Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety of disciplines and nations on the future of the university, weaving historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university and thoughtfully assess these changes.
Synopsis
Leading scholars examine the future of the university based upon historical and emerging issues and trends.
About the Author
SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is Professorial Research Fellow, Tamkang University, Visiting Academic, Queensland University of Technology and Professor and David Sutton Fellow, International Management Centres. In 1999, he was Tamkang Chair, Tamkang University, Taiwan and UNESCO Chair, Centre for European Studies, University of Trier, Germany. He is the author of 200 journal articles, book chapters and popular magazine pieces and has authored/edited 10 books. He is also a Fellow for the World Academy of Art and Science and a Fellow for the World Futures Studies Federation. He is Associate Editor for New Renaissance and Coeditor for the Journal of Futures Studies.JENNIFER GIDLEY is an Educational Psychologist and Futures Researcher.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The University in Transformation: Globalization, Multiculturalism, Virtualization and Politicization by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University
University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip Spies
Higher Education at the Brink by Peter Manicas
Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education by Deane Neubauer
The Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael Skolnik
The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well by Jim Dator
Why Pay for a College Education? by Tom Abeles
Of Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend the Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg Hearn
At the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul Wildman
Non-Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University
Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University by Ashis Nandy
Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq Rahman
Civilizing the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by Anne Hickling-Hudson
Internationalizing the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia Kelly
Alternative Universities
The Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond by Ivana Milojevic
Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus Bussey
Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by Patricia Nicholson
Consciousness-Based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium by James Grant
Transformations of the University
Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University by Sohail Inayatullah
Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer Gidley
Selected Bibliography