Overview
The 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 Details
Author: John Aubrey Douglass
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Weight: 3.067kg
ISBN: 9781349576654
ISBN 10: 1349576654
Pages: 217
Publication Date: 04 February 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Global 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 Information
John 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.
