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Reimagining universities post-Covid-19
The issues surrounding COVID-19 and various policy responses to its salience in communities across the world do not however relate to health and economic issues alone. They have also given rise to issues of sociality – how, under the new conditions, might … Continue reading
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The University Mental Health Charter
The mental health of university students and staff has been a focus of increasing concern in the UK, with a weight of evidence suggesting that large numbers of students and staff are experiencing poor mental health, while a part of their university. The number of students … Continue reading
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The economic impact of universities: Evidence from across the globe
We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed-effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 … Continue reading
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The emergence of an innovation ecosystem in a low innovation region: Disrupting inertia by a young university
Innovation ecosystems are characterized by a variety of complementary actors and relationships among them. Universities are considered a key player in innovation ecosystems for their ability to generate knowledge and qualified expertise for entrepreneurial innovation. While much attention has been paid to mature … Continue reading
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Co-operative universities: A bibliography
Here, I maintain a bibliography of articles, reports, presentations and book chapters that discuss the idea of a ‘co-operative university’, with a specific focus on cooperative ownership and cooperative governance of higher education institutions. Read
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Inside a cooperative university
Mondragon is jointly owned by its academic and administrative staff. No one may earn more than three times the salary of the lowest-paid worker. At a time when many academics feel remote from their university’s managers and strategic plans, the … Continue reading
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The University experiment: Campus as laboratory
Innovative ways of teaching, learning and doing research are helping universities around the globe to adapt to the modern world. Modern universities are heirs to a thousand-year tradition of scholarship. But they are also being buffeted by twenty-first-century upheavals in … Continue reading
Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education
As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education … Continue reading
The Collapsing Business Plan of the Neoliberal University
The dominant business model for American higher education has collapsed, taking with it the financial integrity, academic quality, access, and independence that college and universities once enjoyed. Since the end of World War II two business models have defined the … Continue reading
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A Universidade onde o Fazer é o mais importante
Primeiro o fazer, depois o aprender. Essa é a base da cultura e da filosofia da universidade Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, em Massachusetts, nos Estados Unidos. Lá os estudantes primeiro praticam e testam ideias para depois terem aulas … Continue reading
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