| Description |
vii, 270 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Forces Shaping University Futures / Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley -- 2. University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation / Philip Spies -- 3. Higher Education at the Brink / Peter Manicas -- 4. Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education / Deane Neubauer -- 5. The Virtual University and the Professoriate / Michael Skolnik -- 6. The Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well! / Jim Dator -- 7. Why Pay for a College Education? / Tom Abeles -- 8. Of Minds, Markets, and Machines: How Universities Might Transcend the Ideology of Commodification / David Rooney and Greg Hearn -- 9. At the Edge of Knowledge: Toward Polyphonic Multiversities / Paul Wildman -- 10. Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University / Ashis Nandy -- 11. Pakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future / Tariq Rahman |
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12. Civilizing the State: The University in the Middle East / Shahrzad Mojab -- 13. Scholar-Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- 14. Internationalizing the Curriculum: For Profit or Planet? / Patricia Kelly -- 15. The Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond / Ivana Milojevic -- 16. Homo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations / Marcus Bussey -- 17. Universities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps / Patricia Nicholson -- 18. Consciousness-based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium / James Grant -- 19. Corporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University / Sohail Inayatullah -- 20. Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures / Jennifer Gidley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-250) and index |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Forecasting.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Educational change.
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| Author |
Inayatullah, Sohail, 1958-
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Gidley, Jennifer.
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| LC no. |
99016061 |
| ISBN |
0897897188 alkaline paper |
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0275966089 alkaline paper |
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