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International & Development Education series
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose.
About the author:
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow—Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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Contents
- How Rankings Came to Determine World Class
- The Origin of the Flagship Idea and Modern Adaptions
- Profiling the New Flagship Model
- Considering National Context and Other Variables
- The Predicament of the Quest for WCU Status and Seeking an Asian Flagship University
- Latin American Flagship Universities: From Early Notions of State Building to Seeking a Larger Role in Society
- Scandinavian Flagship Universities: An Appraisal of Leading National Universities in the European Context
- The Soviet Flagship University Model and Its Contemporary Transition
- Epilogue: Reflections on a New Flagship University
Additional titles in the
International & Development Education series
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose.
About the author:
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow—Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley, USA.
© Palgrave Macmillan
Details and ordering information at Palgrave Macmillan.
Contents
- How Rankings Came to Determine World Class
- The Origin of the Flagship Idea and Modern Adaptions
- Profiling the New Flagship Model
- Considering National Context and Other Variables
- The Predicament of the Quest for WCU Status and Seeking an Asian Flagship University
- Latin American Flagship Universities: From Early Notions of State Building to Seeking a Larger Role in Society
- Scandinavian Flagship Universities: An Appraisal of Leading National Universities in the European Context
- The Soviet Flagship University Model and Its Contemporary Transition
- Epilogue: Reflections on a New Flagship University