The
Glion Colloquium has established itself as an influential resource in
addressing the challenges, roles and responsibilities of the world's research
universities.
This
book presents the papers from the IXth Glion Colloquium held in June 2013 in
Glion-above-Montreux, Switzerland, where university leaders from around the
world gathered to consider the ability of the world's research universities to
respond to an era of challenges and change.
Today,
the World's research universities are being challenged by the powerful forces
characterizing the global economy. The changing purpose, role, and
relationships of research universities became the focus of the opening session
of the colloquium. The second session concerned the changing nature of
discovery, learning, and innovation, driven by the changing needs of society,
government policy, and technology. The third session focused on the complex
issues of the cost, price, and value of higher education, or more specifically,
who benefits and who pays for research universities. The fourth session
concerned the particular nature of the changing nature of research universities
in developed countries and the fifth session shifted to a discussion of the
experiences of building world-class research universities in developing
economies.
