Leadership for World-Class Universities
Challenges for Developing Countries
- 270 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. Readers will benefit from best practice advice offered by distinguished international contributors who have excelled by thinking globally without losing sight of their respective national and local environments. Their essays are grounded in empirical research and written to engage the reader, stimulate reflection and enhance performance. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income countries, which face special problems where higher education is expanding most rapidly.
Key themes include:
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- strategic planning
- governance of academic institutions
- the role of the academic profession
- fundraising
- student access and equity
- the impact of globalization
Leadership for World-Class Universities is a valuable resource for senior university administrators. At the heart of this volume is a focus on how academic leaders can work towards resolving the complex issues facing universities today.
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Table of contents
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Strategic Planning for Higher Education
- 2 Governing Universities in Times of Uncertainty and Change
- 3 The Funding of Universities in the Twenty-First Century
- 4 Unlocking the Benefits of Higher Education through Appropriate Governance*
- 5 Mission-Driven Higher Education in Emerging Academic Systems
- 6 Higher Education’s Landscape of Internationalization*
- 7 Where the Quality Discussion Stands: Strategies and Ambiguities
- 8 Global University Rankings and their Impact
- 9 Fund-Raising as Institutional Advancement
- 10 The Challenge of University Leadership in the Developing World
- 11 Access and Equity
- 12 The Academic Profession: The Realities of Developing Countries
- 13 The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Research Universities in Developing Countries*
- Index
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