University Governance

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Omer Caliskan May 8th, 12pm PST | Online Speaker: Ömer Caliskan

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Internationalization of Higher Education: Science Mapping the Knowledge Base (1929–2022)

This research explores the internationalization of higher education (IHE)...

Arizona State's Success Story: Model or Mirage?

Steven Brint
2021

What’s New About Neo-Nationalism, Anyway?

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

Universities in Russia face a dramatic turning point

John Aubrey Douglass
Igor Chirikov
2022

US universities face a precipice under a Trump presidency

John Aubrey Douglass
2023

Universities can expect a frontal attack if Trump returns

John Aubrey Douglass
2024

Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President

David P. Gardner
2005

University in Transition: Research Mission, Interdisciplinarity and Governance by Anne MacLachlan, Detlef Müller-Böling, Evelies Mayer, and Jutta Fedrowitz (1998)

Anne MacLachlan
Detlef Müller-Böling
Evelies Mayer
Jutta Fedrowitz
1998

The major theme of this book is how the many kinds of changes and reforms which the research university needs to make to respond to conditions today could be made. While overall government support is a major concern in both Germany and the United States, the issues go beyond money to the basic organization of research universities: maintaining the integrity of basic university research while collaborating more with industry, recovering and sustaining the curriculum when research predominates, addressing the unruly development of instructional technology, coping institutionally with...

Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats and the Future of Higher Education

John Aubrey Douglass

The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today’s right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education.

Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist...

Clark Kerr and the Californian Model of Higher Education

Simon Marginson
2014

Fifty years on, Clark Kerr’s multiversity and the Californian Master Plan for Higher Education stand as signal high points in the building of not just great public institutions but high participation modern human society. Key features of the Californian Model have become a universal template for research universities and system design. Seminal ideas and practices of higher education developed by Clark Kerr, Martin Trow, Burton Clark and others continue to colonize the thinking of policy makers, scientists, scholars, students and citizens, with profound effects not just in the United States...