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Places of Engagement : Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach / edited by Armand Heijnen and Rob van der Vaart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource: illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048543656
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 378 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2325 .P53 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Annetje Ottow and Anton Pijpers -- Introduction / Rob van der Vaart and Armand Heijnen -- Autonomy : a practice serving a purpose / Sijbolt Noorda -- The positive and fundamental value of excellence in universities / Alain Beretz -- 'Let the lightning strike!' -- free speech and the university / Carel Stolker -- What ought we to wish from university graduates? / James Kennedy -- The student in 2040 / Rhea van der Dong -- Setting the agenda : 'to whom are we answering'? / Frank Miedema -- On the need for universities to engage in lifelong learning / Joop Schippers -- Diversifying the university menu / Jose van Dijck -- The importance of evidence-based development of teaching and learning at university / Sari Lindblom and Jukka Kola -- Re-thinking the higher education curriculum : challenges, possibilities, and dreams / Dilly Fung -- The university as a community in the digital age / Anka Mulder -- Building the first global network university / John Sexton -- A new dawn? Academia moving eastwards / Bertil Andersson -- In search of the South African university -- pages from a Stellenbosch diary / Peter Vale -- The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy / Kurt Deketelaere -- Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education / Michael Crow, Derrick Anderson, and Kyle Whitman -- Don't be scared; be prepared / Barbara Baarsma -- The idea of the university : national asset or ivory tower? / Huang Hoon Chng -- Quality assurance : what it was, is, and should be / Karl Dittrich -- A Hooge School en Maatschappij for our time! On the difficult relationship between two types of universities / Leen Dorsman.
Summary: In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large number of conversations with leaders in higher education worldwide. This book, 'Places of Engagement', offer reflections on themes discussed by Van der Zwaan, written by twenty of his peers and other opinion leaders from around the world. The book was written in honour of Bert van der Zwaan at the occasion of his departure as Vice-Chancellor of Utrecht University.
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"Written in honour of Bert van der Zwaan at the occasion of his departure as vice-chancellor of Utrecht University"--Back cover.

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Foreword / Annetje Ottow and Anton Pijpers -- Introduction / Rob van der Vaart and Armand Heijnen -- Autonomy : a practice serving a purpose / Sijbolt Noorda -- The positive and fundamental value of excellence in universities / Alain Beretz -- 'Let the lightning strike!' -- free speech and the university / Carel Stolker -- What ought we to wish from university graduates? / James Kennedy -- The student in 2040 / Rhea van der Dong -- Setting the agenda : 'to whom are we answering'? / Frank Miedema -- On the need for universities to engage in lifelong learning / Joop Schippers -- Diversifying the university menu / Jose van Dijck -- The importance of evidence-based development of teaching and learning at university / Sari Lindblom and Jukka Kola -- Re-thinking the higher education curriculum : challenges, possibilities, and dreams / Dilly Fung -- The university as a community in the digital age / Anka Mulder -- Building the first global network university / John Sexton -- A new dawn? Academia moving eastwards / Bertil Andersson -- In search of the South African university -- pages from a Stellenbosch diary / Peter Vale -- The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy / Kurt Deketelaere -- Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education / Michael Crow, Derrick Anderson, and Kyle Whitman -- Don't be scared; be prepared / Barbara Baarsma -- The idea of the university : national asset or ivory tower? / Huang Hoon Chng -- Quality assurance : what it was, is, and should be / Karl Dittrich -- A Hooge School en Maatschappij for our time! On the difficult relationship between two types of universities / Leen Dorsman.

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In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large number of conversations with leaders in higher education worldwide. This book, 'Places of Engagement', offer reflections on themes discussed by Van der Zwaan, written by twenty of his peers and other opinion leaders from around the world. The book was written in honour of Bert van der Zwaan at the occasion of his departure as Vice-Chancellor of Utrecht University.

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