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OverviewThe New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Aubrey DouglassPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Weight: 3.067kg ISBN: 9781349576654ISBN 10: 1349576654 Pages: 217 Publication Date: 04 February 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPART I: EXPLORING THE NEW FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY MODEL; John Aubrey Douglass Introduction: Seeking an Alternative Narrative 1. How Rankings Came to Determine World Class 2. The Origin of the Flagship Idea and Modern Adaptions 3. Profiling the Flagship Model 4. Considering National Contexts and other Variables PART II: THE FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 5. The Predicament of the Quest for WCU Status and Seeking an Asian Flagship University; John N. Hawkins 6. Latin America Flagship Universities: From Early Notions of State Building to Seeking a Larger Role in Society; Andrés Bernasconi and Daniela Véliz Calderón 7. Scandinavian Flagship Universities: An Appraisal of Leading National Universities in the European Context; Bjørn Stensaker and Tatiana Fumasoli 8. The Soviet Flagship University Model and its Contemporary Transition; Isak Froumin and Oleg Leshukov 9. Epilogue - Reflections on a New Flagship University; Manja KlemencicReviewsGlobal league tables have imposed a new tyranny on major research universities. Even, perhaps especially, the most highly ranked are in their thrall. They have to conform ever more closely to a restricted (and restrictive) idea of the 'world-class university' global norms that supposedly apply everywhere but actually fit nowhere. New paradigms of success are desperately needed. John Douglass' new book articulates an imaginative new concept of the 'flagship university', at once excellent according to all academic measures but rooted in meeting the real needs of their societies. - Peter Scott, UCL Institute of Education, UK; former Vice Chancellor at Kingston University, UK, and Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement Over the past millennium, universities have thrived through a process of continual renewal. Prophecies that they would succumb to new institutions, new technologies, and new demands have not been fulfilled. In this age of globalization, universities are not luxuries but are central to societies around the globe for the creation and communication of knowledge, the application of technologies, and the cultivation of leadership. John Douglass's new work is most welcome, as it provides important perspectives on the future of higher education around the world, underlining the essential role of the modern, flagship university. - Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and former President of Brown University, USA Throughout much of the world, global rankings of universities and similar markers of prestige have an outsize influence on ministerial policies and institutional behaviors. In an innovative and groundbreaking manner, The New Flagship University provides a much needed reboot, profiling and explaining the actual policies and practices, and expansive mission, of the best and most influential global universities. - Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor UC Berkeley, California, USA Author InformationJohn Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow—Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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