The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4 

Online Event

9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus will discuss their recent book, The New Global Universities, which tells the stories of educational leaders who have reimagined higher education in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. These new institutions have been designed from the ground up and exhibit a commitment to high-quality, transformative liberal arts education that challenges assumptions about higher education in their respective country contexts. 

The authors will highlight administrative, curricular, and pedagogical innovations they observed while researching their book, offering inspiring examples of intellectual courage, entrepreneurial audacity, and adaptive leadership while also unpacking tensions found globally in higher education. They will explore how university leaders focused on the deep needs of students and constructed institutional cultures sensitive to the needs of the university’s location. In many ways, these new institutions ask us to reconsider outmoded assumptions and structures within undergraduate education by demonstrating success with novel, alternative models for delivering impactful and accessible higher education.

Bryan Penprase is vice president for sponsored research and external academic relations at Soka University of America. 
Noah Pickus is associate provost at Duke University and dean for academic strategy at Duke Kunshan University.

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