ANNOUNCING
RELEASE OF NEW BOOK ON UNIVERSITY FUTURES:
The
University in Transformation
Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University
Edited
by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
Bergin
& Garvey. Westport, Conn. 2000. 280 pages
LC
99-16061. ISBN 0-89789-718-8. H718 $65.00
http://info.greenwood.com/books/0897897/0897897188.html
Contributing
Authors:
Tom
Abeles, Marcus Bussey, James Dator, James Grant, Anne Hickling-Hudson,
Greg Hearn, Patricia Kelly, Peter Manicas, Ivana Milojevic, Shahrzad
Mojab, Ashis Nandy, Deane Neubauer, Patricia Nicholson, David
Rooney, Tariq Rahman, Michael Skolnik, Philip Spies and Paul Wildman.
Comments
On The University In Transformation:
This
book is admirably comprehensive. Its authors look at the impact on
universities of all the major trends of our times. Even better, they
go beyond the usual western focus and attempt a genuinely world
view. A very stimulating contribution to the debate.
Sir
John Daniel, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University
Sohail
Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley have responded to the present crises
of higher education by bringing together a must-read collection of
papers. Firmly grounding their work on past trends, both the Western
and Non-Western authors of these papers challenge conventional
thinking as they explore possible, probable, and preferable futures
for the university. A first-rate piece of work that might help us
avoid a potential coming educational catastrophe.
Professor
Wendell Bell, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University
...University
in Transformation is highly recommended as an engaging, informative,
and visionary text for those concerned with the critical role of
universities in personal and national development in the 21st
century.
Professor
Robert Arnove, Professor of International and Comparative
Education,
Indiana University, Bloomington
This
book is a `must' reading for all professionals in higher education
and those policy makers who have influence upon the direction of
higher education in the U.S. as well as other countries....While
thoughtful in insight, it is also practical in ideas. Anyone who
reads it will come away with the importance of higher education and
its role in building a global society where humanity will ultimately
prevail.
Professor
Glenn K. Miyataki, President, The Japan-America Institute of
Management
Science, Honolulu, Hawaii
A very impressive
collection... This book arrives just-in-time for universities that
want a future.
Gordon
Prestoungrange, Global President, International Management Centers
This
is an interesting and thought-provoking book that gives other
perspectives to the important debate on the role and effectiveness
of the university in modern society.
Professor
John Rickard
Vice-Chancellor,
Southern Cross University
Gidley and Inayatullah
give equal weight to non-Western perspectives and …
"alternative universities."
Warren
Osmond
Editor,
Campus Review
Book Summary
Taking
a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is
critical at this time. The
university is being refashioned, often by forces out of the control
of academics, students, and even administrators. However, there
remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the
directions that the university can take. This book maps both the
historical factors and the alternative futures of the university.
Whereas most books on the university remain focused on the European
model, this volume explores models and issues from non-Western
perspectives as well.
Inayatullah
and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety
of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving
historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism,
virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt
to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet
as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the
university, and they
thoughtfully
assess these changes.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Forces
Shaping University Futures by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley
WESTERN
PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURES OF THE UNIVERSITY
University
Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip
Spies
Higher
Education at the Brink by Peter Manicas
Will
the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher
Education by Deane
Neubauer
The
Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael Skolnik
The
Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well
by Jim Dator
Why
Pay for a College Education? by Tom Abeles
Of
Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend
the Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg Hearn
At
the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul
Wildman
NON-WESTERN
PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Recovery
of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University by
Ashis Nandy
Pakistani
Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq Rahman
Civilizing
the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar
Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by
Anne Hickling-Hudson
Internationalizing
the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia Kelly
ALTERNATIVE
UNIVERSITIES
The
Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century
and Beyond by Ivana Milojevic
Homo
Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus
Bussey
Universities
Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by
Patricia Nicholson
Consciousness-Based
Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium by
James Grant
TRANSFORMATIONS
OF THE UNIVERSITY
Corporate
Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the
University by Sohail Inayatullah
Unveiling
the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer Gidley
ABOUT THE EDITORS
SOHAIL
INAYATULLAH is Professorial Research Fellow, Tamkang University,
Visiting Academic, Queensland University of Technology and Professor
and
David
Sutton Fellow, International Management Centers. In 1999, he was
Tamkang
Chair, Tamkang University, Taiwan and UNESCO Chair, Center for
European
Studies, University of Trier, Germany. He is the author of over 200
journal articles, book chapters and popular magazine pieces and has
authored/edited 10 books. He
is also Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science and Fellow, World
Futures Studies Federation as well as Associate Editor, New
Renaissance and Co-editor, Journal of Futures Studies. s.inayatullah@qut.edu.au
JENNIFER
GIDLEY is an Educational Psychologist and Futures Researcher.
jgidley@scu.edu.au
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