Education crossing borders : how Singapore and MIT created a new university / Dara Fisher.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fisher, Dara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• University cooperation--Singapore.
• University cooperation--United States.
• Education, Higher--International cooperation.
• Transnational education--Singapore.
• Education and globalization--Singapore.
• Universities and colleges--Singapore.
• Singapore University of Technology and Design--History.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The book chronicles the history of the collaborative partnership between MIT and the Singapore Ministry of Education to create the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the country's fourth public university. Fisher describes how MIT faculty communicated the practices and identity of the Institute as they developed and executed the vision for SUTD, and how local actors at the university reframed, modified, and adapted these practices to fit the local political, cultural, and economic context in Singapore. Fisher focuses on the early years of SUTD's development. She looks at the Singaporean government's intentions in founding a fourth university, and how prior research partnerships with MIT provided the confidence on both sides required to design an innovative curricular structure for SUTD. Using the techniques of ethnography, Fisher investigates the personal and professional incentives for MIT professors to invest their time and expertise in the project, how the early SUTD administration managed to market the fledgling institution to Singaporean students while dealing with temporary campus facilities, and how the first cohorts of students negotiated the unfamiliar pedagogy and curricular structures designed by MIT"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• The Fourth University
• Beyond "02139" : MIT and the World
• To a Conceptual Design
• The SUTD Pioneers
• Getting to "11:1" : Building a Faculty and Research Agenda
• Finding the Risk Takers : Campus Building and the "Pioneer Batch"
• Fighting the Paper Chase : Developing SUTD's Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Academic Culture
• "Stay Up 'Til Dawn" : Creating the SUTDent Culture
• "Its Campus Will Be in Changi" : Building and Managing a Cross-Border University
• Building a Cross-Border University : Implications of Scholarship and Practice.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

• 0-262-35869-7
• 0-262-35868-9

OCLC:

1187208841