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Summer 2024 Bulletin

æ岹ܲ Explores Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education

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A digital rendering shows an aerial view of a model of the initial campus plans designed by Moshe Safdie for the Asian University for Women. The model has curving green spaces, roads, small bodies of water, and beige buildings.
An architectural model of the campus of the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, designed by Ƶ member Moshe Safdie. The campus employs numerous sustainable design strategies, including natural ventilation, daylighting, high-thermal mass construction, hillside stabilization, and mass re-vegetation. © 2019 by Moshe Safdie.

By æ岹ܲ Editorial

While U.S. colleges struggle against broad disinvestment, institutions of higher education in many parts of the world have imagined ambitious new models of twenty-first-century education. From world-class public research universities to online and binational start-ups, the landscape of global higher education is shaped by ongoing experimentation and change. What have these approaches taught us? And what lessons can we apply to institutions in the United States? 

In the Spring 2024 issue of æ岹ܲ, “Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education,” guest edited by Wendy Fischman, Howard Gardner, and William C. Kirby, university founders, classroom innovators, and education advocates highlight the successes and growing pains new universities and colleges around the world have experienced as they rise to meet modern challenges. 

Climate action, geopolitics, and shifting pedagogies are among the major issues addressed in these essays. Together, the authors are engaged in a rich discussion of the evolving missions of higher-education institutions worldwide, reexamining the basic aims of a liberal arts and sciences education: truth and freedom.
 

“Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education” features the following essays:
 

Introduction: International Innovation & American Challenges 
William C. Kirby

Research & Teaching: Lasting Union or House Divided? 
Emily J. Levine

The International University in an Age of Deglobalization 
Mariët Westermann

The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College: An International Liberal Arts Partnership in Singapore 
Pericles Lewis 

Northwestern University in Qatar: A Distinctive Global University 
Marwan M. Kraidy 

Establishing a Research-Focused Liberal Arts College in China: Duke Kunshan University 
Haiyan Gao & Yijun Gu

Chinese Universities on the Global Stage: Perspectives from the Recent Past 
Wen-hsin Yeh

The Liberal Arts in a Chinese Tech University: ShanghaiTech 
Mianheng Jiang

Valuing & Defending the Arts in Hong Kong 
Mette Hjort 

A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in “Catching Up” in the Twenty-First Century? 
Takehiko Kariya

India’s Realignment of Higher Education 
Jamshed Bharucha

One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher-Education Sector 
Tarun Khanna

Up Close: Asian University for Women 
Kamal Ahmad

The Socialist Model of Higher Education: The Dream Faces Reality 
Isak Frumin & Daria Platonova 

The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom: Universities, Democracy & the Authoritarian Challenge 
Michael Ignatieff 

The Pandora’s Box of Fudan Hungary 
Ágota Révész 

Teaching for Synthesis at The London Interdisciplinary School 
Carl Gombrich & Amelia Peterson

The Rise of University Colleges in Europe: A New Future for Liberal Arts & Sciences in the Twenty-First Century? 
Marijk C. van der Wende

Global Education without Walls: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of University Learning in Online Environments across Disciplines 
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

Educating Students for Climate Action: Distraction or Higher-Education Capital? 
Fernando M. Reimers

Online Learning & the Transformation of Global Higher Education 
Richard C. Levin

Minerva: The Intentional University 
Teri A. Cannon & Stephen M. Kosslyn

The Role & Rule of Rankings 
Gökhan Depo

Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: What’s the Mission? 
Katie Abramowitz, Wendy Fischman & Howard Gardner
 

“Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education” is available on the . æ岹ܲ is an open access publication. 

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