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Taking a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is critical at this time. The university is being refashioned, often by forces out of the control of academics, students, and even administrators. However, there remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the directions that the university can take. This book maps both the historical factors and the alternative futures of the university. Whereas most books on the university remain focused on the European model, this volume explores models and issues from non-Western perspectives as well.
Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university, and they thoughtfully assess these changes.
List of contents
Introduction
The University in Transformation: Globalization, Multiculturalism, Virtualization and Politicization by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
Western Perspectives on the Futures of the UniversityUniversity Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip Spies
Higher Education at the Brink by Peter Manicas
Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education by Deane Neubauer
The Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael Skolnik
The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well by Jim Dator
Why Pay for a College Education? by Tom Abeles
Of Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend the Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg Hearn
At the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul Wildman
Non-Western Perspectives on the Futures of the UniversityRecovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University by Ashis Nandy
Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq Rahman
Civilizing the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by Anne Hickling-Hudson
Internationalizing the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia Kelly
Alternative UniversitiesThe Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond by Ivana Milojevic
Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus Bussey
Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by Patricia Nicholson
Consciousness-Based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium by James Grant
Transformations of the UniversityCorporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University by Sohail Inayatullah
Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer Gidley
Selected Bibliography
About the author
Jennifer Gidley, Sohail Inayatullah
