The University in Transformation

Jennifer Gidley, Sohail Inayatullah

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.

Leading scholars examine the future of the university based upon historical and emerging issues and trends.

IntroductionThe University in Transformation: Globalization, Multiculturalism, Virtualization and Politicization by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer GidleyWestern Perspectives on the Futures of the UniversityUniversity Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation by Philip SpiesHigher Education at the Brink by Peter ManicasWill the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education by Deane NeubauerThe Virtual University and the Professoriate by Michael SkolnikThe Futures for Higher Education: From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well by Jim DatorWhy Pay for a College Education? by Tom AbelesOf Minds, Markets and Machines: How Universities might transcend the Ideology of Commodification by David Rooney and Greg HearnAt the Edge of Knowledge-Towards Polyphonic Multiversities by Paul WildmanNon-Western Perspectives on the Futures of the UniversityRecovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University by Ashis NandyPakistani Universities: Past, Present, and Future by Tariq RahmanCivilizing the State: the University in the Middle East by Shahrzad MojabScholar Activism for a New World: The Future of the Caribbean University by Anne Hickling-HudsonInternationalizing the Curriculum-for Profit or the Planet? by Patricia KellyAlternative UniversitiesThe Crisis of the University: Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond by Ivana MilojevicHomo Tantricus: Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations by Marcus BusseyUniversities Evolving: Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps by Patricia NicholsonConsciousness-Based Education: A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium by James GrantTransformations of the UniversityCorporate Networks or Bliss for All: The Politics of the Futures of the University by Sohail InayatullahUnveiling the Human Face of University Futures by Jennifer GidleySelected Bibliography