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The Globalization of Higher Education Luc E. Weber James J Duderstadt r ,J ECONOMICA CONTENTS PREFACE By Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt ....................................................................... xi CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTICIPANTS ...................................................................................................................................................... xv Part I The Context ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER 1 Globalization: What does it Mean for Higher Education? 3 Deepak Nayyar CHAPTER 2 Reinvigorating Universities in an Entrepreneurial Age......... 15 Carl Schramm CHAPTER 3 Partnering on a Global Scale...................................................................................................................... 27 Wayne C. Johnson Part II Global Strategies for Established Universities......................................... 43 CHAPTER 4 Developed Universities and the Developing World: Opportunities and Obligations............................................................................................................... 45 Robert M. Berdahl CHAPTER 5 The Challenge to European Universities in the Emerging Global Marketplace ............................................................................................................................................................ 55 Howard Newby vii viii Contents .................................................................................................................................... CHAPTER 6 Comprehensive Universities in Continental Europe: Falling Behind?............................................................................................................................................................................... 65 Georg Winckler CHAPTER 7 The Engagement of Australian Universities with Globalization ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 77 John Niland CHAPTER 8 Japanese University Reform seen through Bureaucratic Reform and Changes in Patterns of Scientific collaboration ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 93 Yuko Harayama and René Carraz CHAPTER 9 Russian Universities in the Global World................................................................ 107 Vladimir Troyan Part III Global Strategies for Emerging Universities and Univerity Systems ............................................................................................................................................ 117 CHAPTER 10 Response of Chinese Higher Education and SJTU to Globalization: An Overview ............................................................................................................ 119 Jie Zhang CHAPTER 11 Building Singapore’s University Education System in a Globalized World: Issues, Policies and Challenges........... 129 Tony Tan Keng Yam CHAPTER 12 Globalization of Research Universities in Korea...................................... 141 Nam Pyo Suh CHAPTER 13 Science and Technology in Brazil.................................................................................................. 151 Carlos H. Brito Cruz Part IV Shifting Paradigms for Global Competition and Cooperation........................................................................................................................................................................ 165 CHAPTER 14 Global Success: Real World Research ‘Meets’ Global Practitioners........................................................................................................................................................................................... 167 Peter Lorange CHAPTER 15 Universities as Content Providers ................................................................................................. 175 Dennis Tsichritzis CHAPTER 16 The Organizational Challenge for European Universities Facing Globalization ........................................................................................................................................................ 183 Patrick Aebischer and Jean-François Ricci Contents ix .................................................................................................................................... CHAPTER 17 Higher Education in the 21st century: Global Imperatives, Regional Challenges, National Responsibilities and Emerging Opportunities........................................................................................................................ 195 James J. Duderstadt CHAPTER 18 An Open University for the 21st century................................................................... 207 B.M. Gourley CHAPTER 19 The Emerging Meta University............................................................................................................ 217 Charles M. Vest Part V Universities in and of The World............................................................................................. 227 CHAPTER 20 The Responsibility of Universities to promote a sustainable society ........................................................................................................................................................... 229 Luc Weber CHAPTER 21 Doing Good by Doing Little? University Responsibility in a Violent Setting............................................................................................................................................................ 245 John Waterbury CHAPTER 22 Has our Reach Exceeded our Grasp? Taking a Second Look at Higher Education as a Global Enterprise ......................................................................... 251 Robert Zemsky CHAPTER 23 Globalization, Public Policies and Higher Education................... 259 David Ward Part VI Summary ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 271 CHAPTER 24 The Globalization of Higher Education.......................................................................... 273 James Duderstadt, Jerry Taggart and Luc Weber PREFACE he Sixth Glion Colloquium brought together university leaders from around the world in Glion above Montreux, Switzerland, to consider T the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities presented to higher education by the emerging global, knowledge-driven economy. Launched in 1998 by Professors Luc Weber (University of Geneva) and Werner Hirsch (University of California), the Glion Colloquium has brought together uni- versity leaders from Europe and North America to discuss the future of higher education, frequently joined by leaders from business, foundations and gov- ernment. Topics have included the rapidly changing nature of research uni- versities, university governance, the interaction between universities and society, the future of the university and the responsibilities of higher educa- tion, as articulated in the important document, The Glion Declaration: The University at the Millennium, prepared for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education in 1998. The papers presented and associated discussion at each colloquium have subsequently been published in a series of books that can be found on the Glion Colloquium website at http://www.glion.org. The Glion VI Colloquium departed from its customary transatlantic dia- logue by broadening participation to embrace global representation, including university leaders from around the world representing 18 nations and five continents, to consider the globalization of higher education. The emergence of a global, knowledge-driven economy is driven by a radically new system for creating wealth that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge and hence upon advanced education, research, innovation and xi xii Preface .................................................................................................................................... entrepreneurial activities. Both mature and developing nations are making major investments in building the knowledge infrastructure — schools, uni- versities, research institutes, high-tech industry, cyberinfrastructure, public policies and programmes — necessary to achieve prosperity and security in the knowledge economy. In parallel with these trends, there is a strong sense that higher education is also in the early stages of globalization, both through the increasing mobility of students and faculty and the rapid growth in international partnerships among universities. Some even conjecture that soon we will see the emergence of truly global universities, which not only intend to compete in the global marketplace for students, faculty and resources, but also are increasingly will- ing to define their public purpose in terms of global needs such as public health, environmental sustainability, and international development. The aim of this meeting was to provoke a stimulating discussion among leaders of research uni- versities from around the world — both from mature nations in Europe, North America and Asia and from developing nations