Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems. It addresses structural, programmatic, and curricular gaps in ways designed to prepare current and future generations for unfolding socio-ecological challenges.

The book introduces five urgent and interconnected global challenges (sustainable development, climate change, migration, global health, and social justice) demanding attention from higher-education institutions worldwide. Each of these five chapters explores the challenge and then shifts focus to the needed roles of forward-looking higher-education institutions. These roles include building critical consciousness, developing competencies, inspiring global actions, exercising leadership at all levels, conducting evaluations, and undertaking innovative initiatives. The book also proposes three specific initiatives: (1) creation of linked academic Centers for Contemporary Global Challenges; (2) establishment of South-North Higher-Education Consortia; and (3) initiation of a Global Challenges Corps, supported by transnational-competence preparation. It also provides an evaluation methodology to assess the traction of the proposed educational vision. The concluding chapter offers a pathway to fill existing programmatic gaps and equip future generations to address global challenges.

This authoritative and insightful book is essential reading for university leaders, educators, and learners worldwide. It provides practical strategies and a future-preparatory vision for universities to address rising global challenges.

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Cover Page
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Marie Price
Foreword by Jean-Marc Coicaud
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges
1 Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future
2 Climate Change: Preparing Today’s Youth to Respond to the Quintessential Contemporary Transnational Challenge
3 Displacement and Migration: Forward-Looking University Responses to Global Uprooting
4 Global Health and Higher Education in the Wake of COVID-19
5 Social-Justice Education for Contemporary Challenges: The Unavoidable Glocal Connections
6 Future Visions
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