By Dædalus Editorial
While U.S. colleges struggle against broad disinvestment, institutions of higher education in many parts of the world have imagined ambitious new models of twenty-first-century education. From world-class public research universities to online and binational start-ups, the landscape of global higher education is shaped by ongoing experimentation and change. What have these approaches taught us? And what lessons can we apply to institutions in the United States?
In the Spring 2024 issue of Dædalus, “Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education,” guest edited by Wendy Fischman, Howard Gardner, and William C. Kirby, university founders, classroom innovators, and education advocates highlight the successes and growing pains new universities and colleges around the world have experienced as they rise to meet modern challenges.
Climate action, geopolitics, and shifting pedagogies are among the major issues addressed in these essays. Together, the authors are engaged in a rich discussion of the evolving missions of higher-education institutions worldwide, reexamining the basic aims of a liberal arts and sciences education: truth and freedom.
“Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education” features the following essays:
Introduction: International Innovation & American Challenges
William C. Kirby
Research & Teaching: Lasting Union or House Divided?
Emily J. Levine
The International University in an Age of Deglobalization
Mariët Westermann
The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College: An International Liberal Arts Partnership in Singapore
Pericles Lewis
Northwestern University in Qatar: A Distinctive Global University
Marwan M. Kraidy
Establishing a Research-Focused Liberal Arts College in China: Duke Kunshan University
Haiyan Gao & Yijun Gu
Chinese Universities on the Global Stage: Perspectives from the Recent Past
Wen-hsin Yeh
The Liberal Arts in a Chinese Tech University: ShanghaiTech
Mianheng Jiang
Valuing & Defending the Arts in Hong Kong
Mette Hjort
A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in “Catching Up” in the Twenty-First Century?
Takehiko Kariya
India’s Realignment of Higher Education
Jamshed Bharucha
One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher-Education Sector
Tarun Khanna
Up Close: Asian University for Women
Kamal Ahmad
The Socialist Model of Higher Education: The Dream Faces Reality
Isak Frumin & Daria Platonova
The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom: Universities, Democracy & the Authoritarian Challenge
Michael Ignatieff
The Pandora’s Box of Fudan Hungary
Ágota Révész
Teaching for Synthesis at The London Interdisciplinary School
Carl Gombrich & Amelia Peterson
The Rise of University Colleges in Europe: A New Future for Liberal Arts & Sciences in the Twenty-First Century?
Marijk C. van der Wende
Global Education without Walls: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of University Learning in Online Environments across Disciplines
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Educating Students for Climate Action: Distraction or Higher-Education Capital?
Fernando M. Reimers
Online Learning & the Transformation of Global Higher Education
Richard C. Levin
Minerva: The Intentional University
Teri A. Cannon & Stephen M. Kosslyn
The Role & Rule of Rankings
Gökhan Depo
Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: What’s the Mission?
Katie Abramowitz, Wendy Fischman & Howard Gardner
“Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education” is available on the Academy’s website. Dædalus is an open access publication.