The Promise of Higher Education: Essays in Honour of 70 Years of IAU

This open access book is a collection of short essays, accessible through open access, takes the interested reader on a tour across the global higher education landscape and addresses pertinent themes and challenges in higher education. To mark the 70th anniversary of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and its role in higher education since 1950, experts from around the world share their insights into higher education’s recent past, present and future.

70 Years of Higher Education Cooperation and Advocacy -- To Cohere and Act as One: IAU—The Global Voice of Higher Education -- Stepping Up Global Collaboration to Protect Higher Education’s Future -- The IAU and Contemporary Global Challenges: A Latin American Point of View -- Drivers of Globalisation of Higher Education over the Last 70 Years -- A Personal View on Two Decades of Recent IAU History -- IAU President Walter Kamba (1990–1995): A Man of Conscience -- Between Global Inequalities and World Ethics. Personal Reflections on Internationalisation of Higher Education over the Past Seventy Years -- Creating Democratic Civic Universities in a Post-COVID-19 World: The IAU and Global Collaboration -- Why IAU?

Facilitating International Cooperation -- The Role of IAU in Facilitating International Cooperation -- Universities, Associations, and Internationalization: Powerful Forces for Our Time -- A Global View of Internationalisation: What Next? -- The Importance of Internationalization Today and the Leadership Role of IAU -- International Collaboration: Necessary, But Challenging -- Getting Unstuck with Internationalization at Home: Seizing the Post-pandemic Moment -- Levelling up International Higher Education: Universities, Nations and Global Goals -- Internationalization of Universities: 70 Years of Experience -- 70 Years of Internationalization in Tertiary Education: Changes, Challenges and Perspectives -- The Evolution of Higher Education Collaboration in the Arctic Through Networking.

Coding the Values -- Promoting Values Together: Global Currency with Local Impact for Universities -- “A Question of Integrity”: Academic Values Torn Between Organizational Affiliation, National Competitiveness and the Global Academic Community -- Valuing the Civic Role of University Education in an Age of Competition and Rapid Change -- Mitigating Corruption in Higher Education -- Higher Education and Public Good in East and West -- The Beginning of History and the University -- Higher Education and the Enduring Value of Hospitality: Reflections for the 21st Century -- The Role of Quality Assurance and the Values of Higher Education -- Recognition of Foreign Qualifications Celebrates Higher Education Collaboration Too.

The Changing Landscape -- Creating Responsible and Engaged Students -- Universities Can Regain the Public’s Trust -- Towards the Other Side of Complexity: Values and Decisions in a Time of Uncertainty -- Africa’s Destiny and Higher Education Transformation -- The Constant of Change: Remaining Relevant in 21st Century Higher Education -- The Changing Role of Universities in Lithuanian Society -- Modern Challenges for Universities -- Universities in an Era of Post-Corona “New Order” -- Redefining the Role of Universities in a Rapidly Changing Landscape -- From Emergency Remote Teaching to Strategically Embracing Online Learning -- Overcoming Challenges and Boundaries Through the Innovation of University Learning and Teaching Practices -- Is the Pandemic Leading to a Paradigm Shift in Higher Education? -- A Personal Reflection on the Key Challenge for Higher Education: Improving the Quality of University Instruction -- University Leadership: Slippage from Abiding to Peremptory Roles? -- The Dawn for a New Era for Higher Education -- Are Rankings (Still) Fit for Purpose? -- Are Universities Better Off Without Rankings?

The Promise of Education -- Universities as Lifelong Learning Institutions: A New Frontier for Higher Education? -- The Promise of Education: The Future -- The African Dream for Quality Higher Education -- Science and Social Responsibility – Heritage and Mission -- Unlocking the Potential of Higher Education by Serving the Common Good -- IAU: The Power to Foster Higher Education for Sustainable Development -- Aligning Higher Education’s Promise of Well-Being with Sustainability as a Purpose of Education -- Accelerating the Future into the Present: Re-imagining Higher Education in the Caribbean -- The Future of Higher Education: A New Paradigm Shift Addressing Students’ Diversity -- Knowledge and Partnerships for Sustainability and Equality -- Post-COVID-19: A Time of Opportunity for Asian Universities.

Opening up - The Future of Higher Education -- Envisioning Higher Education for the Future -- From University to Multiversity to Omniversity: HEIs as Hubs for Dynamic Development -- The Disruptive Futures of Education—Post-COVID-19 Pandemic -- Universities Beyond 2020 -- The Role of Digital Technologies in the New Present and Future of Higher Education -- Toward a Different Type of Education -- Transforming Universities for a Sustainable Future -- Education: We Must Keep Our Promise.