Future of Higher Education conference proceedings

Posted by on November 26, 2012

You or your members may be interested in the new special issue of Social Research:

“The Future of Higher Education”
Social Research Volume 79 No. 3 (Fall 2012)
(Proceedings of the December 2011 conference)

To order or for more information, please visit http://tinyurl.com/socres-higher-ed.

THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 2012)
Arien Mack, Editor
ISBN 978-1-933481-30-2

I.  Keynote Panel: What Ought Universities Look Like in 20 to 30 Years?
Jamshed Bharucha, Matthew Goldstein, Neil Grabois, Robert Zimmer, David Van Zandt

IIa. Restructuring Research Universities
Andrew Delbanco: Introduction
James J. Duderstadt: “The Future of the University: A Perspective from the Oort Cloud”
Peter Brooks: “Outcomes, Testing, Learning: What’s at Stake?”

IIb. Restructuring Research Universities
David Scobey: Introduction
Vijay Kumar: “The New Landscape for Innovative Transformation of Education”
Henry S. Bienen: “The Financial Future of Research Universities”

IIIa. Roadmapping University Development
Arjun Appadurai: Introduction
John A. Douglass: “China Futurisms: Research Universities as Leaders or Followers?”
Ahmed Bawa: “South African Higher Education: At the Center of a Cauldron of National Imaginations”

IIIb. Roadmapping University Development
Alan Ryan: Introduction
Daniel Fallon: “Europe Inches Forward on Higher Education Reform, Focus: Germany”
Jorge Balán: “Research Universities in Latin America: The Challenges of Growth and Institutional Diversity”
Lisa Anderson: “Fertile Ground: The Future of Higher Education in the Arab World”