The New Global Universities : Reinventing Education in the 21st Century / Bryan Penprase, Noah Pickus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penprase, Bryan E., author.

Pickus, Noah M. Jedidiah, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--History--21st century.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Start-Up U

Your Guides to the Future of the University

Thorny Questions

A Pluralist View of Impact

Who This Book Is for and How It Unfolds

2. The Liberal Arts Go Global

Waves of Change

The Liberal Arts Go Global

Innovation and Tradition

3. The World's Honors College: NYU Abu Dhabi

A Provost without a University

Creating the World's Honors College

Abu Dhabi as the Middle East Ideas Capital

Building the Faculty and Curriculum

Controversies on the Home Front and Academic Freedom

Evolution and Revision

Entering Young Adulthood

4. In Asia for the World: Yale-NUS College

Singapore as an Education Hub

Yale Appoints a Dean

Global Ambitions for NUS and Yale

Controversies in New Haven

The First Yale-NUS President

Building a Common Curriculum for the World

The Approach to Steady State

The Fate and Impact of Yale-NUS

5. A Culture of Continuous Innovation: Olin College of Engineering

Creating the Ideal University

The Partner Year

The Emergence of Olin College Culture

Olin's Second President

Expanding Creativity and Diversity at Olin

Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Engineering

Preserving Innovation after the Start-Up

6. The Intangibles of Excellence: Fulbright University Vietnam

The Intangibles of Excellence

Controversy and Control

"It Felt like a Tech Launch

Codesign Year

Teaching the American War in Ho Chi Minh City

From Blank Slate to First Draft

The Meaning of Innovation

Impact and Trajectory

7. Archimedes's Lever: Ashoka University

Overcoming the Colonial Legacy

Creating the Rhodes Scholarship of India

Built by the Elite, for the Elite?

The Kama Sutra and the Mahabharata

From Consumer to Producer

Between Academic and Entrepreneurial Cultures

Academic Autonomy and Institution Building

Archimedes's Lever

8. Building an African Renaissance: Ashesi University

The Return to Africa

The Business Plan for the New University

Building Social Capital for Ashesi

Finding the Market for Liberal Arts in Africa

Launching Ashesi's Campus and Curriculum

Training Ethical Entrepreneurial Leaders for Africa

The Ashesi University Culture

The Future of Africa and Ashesi University

9. A Global Solution, African Born: African Leadership University

From Academy to University

Turning a University on Its Head

Making It Safe to Innovate

Discontent and the Emergence of the African Leadership Experience

Excellence at Scale-ALU 2.0 and The Room

Audacity and Risk-Taking

10. Critical Wisdom for the Sake of the World: Minerva University

Brand and Specs

Financing and Accreditation

Critical Wisdom and Curricular Structure

Building a Fully Active Pedagogy

Cities and Students

Faculty Culture

Sustaining the Vision

11. Essential Categories for Success in a Start-Up University

Generating Prestige

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating a Sustainable Business Model

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Penprase, Bryan The New Global Universities

ISBN:

9780691231488

0691231486

Publisher Number:

99995429088

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.