This book explores the history of leading national universities in Asia and contemplates their capacity for innovation by focusing on the New Flagship University model. This model, presented more fully in The Flagship University Model — Changing the Paradigm from Global Ranking to National Relevancy (2016), envisions the university as an institution that not only meets the standards of excellence focused on research productivity and rankings, but one that is creatively responsive to the larger social needs of their specific national or regional environment and people. Chapters discuss the mission, policies and practices of the holistic and aspirational New Flagship University model and explore the contemporary academic cultures and innovations of leading national universities in China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, India and elsewhere. Each is pursuing aspects of the Flagship model on their own terms. Academic leaders and ministries in Asia are beginning to understand that the bell-curve approach of rankings and the myopic notion of a "World Class University" no longer provide an adequate strategy to guide policy, funding, and practice. This book furthers discussions within universities about their larger purpose and the internal academic culture that will bolster their drive to become among the best and most influential universities in the world.

About the authors:
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow—Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California—Berkeley.

John N. Hawkins is Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction: The Asian New Flagship University: Seeking a Yi Liu Future
    John Aubrey Douglass (UC Berkeley) and John N. Hawkins (UCLA and the East-West Center)

1. Profiling the New Flagship University Model: An Introduction
       John Aubrey Douglass (UC Berkeley)
2. The New Flagship University in the Context of Asian Higher Education Traditions
       John N. Hawkins (UCLA and the East-West Center)
3. Quality and the New Flagship Ideal in Asian Higher Education
       David P. Ericson (University of Hawai'i)
4. An Uncertain Future: Leading National Universities in South Korea and the Flagship Model
       Stephanie K. Kim (UC Berkeley) and Minho Yeom (Chonnam National University)
5. A Flagship University Quest: Challenges and Dilemma for a Chinese University
       Ka Ho Mok (Lingnan University) and Xiao Han (University of Hong Kong)
6. Flagship Universities in India: The Dominance of Delhi University
       Miloni Gandi (University of Southern California)
7. The New Flagship Model and Two Universities in Japan
       Satoshi P. Watanabe and Machi Sato (Hiroshima University)
8. A Flagship Universities and Regional Economic Engagement: The Case of Zhejiang University
       Mosi Wang and Jia Zhang (Zhejiang University)
9. Innovation in Undergraduate Education: The Case of the National University of Singapore
       Bryan Edward Penprase (Yale-NUS College)
10. Yale-National University of Singapore College
        Bryan Edward Penprase (Yale-NUS College)
11. A Complex Flagship Mission: The Case of the University of Hawai'i
        Deane Neubauer, Joanne Taira, and Donald Young (East-West Center and University of Hawai'i)
12. Epilogue: A Summary Reflection on the New Flagship University
        Charles E. Morrison (East-West Center)