Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges: In Pursuit of Well-being, Social Justice, and Sustainability [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges  2. Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future  3. Climate Change: Preparing Todays Youths to Respond to the Quintessential Contemporary Transnational Challenge  4. Displacement and Migration: Forward-Looking University Responses to Global Uprooting 5. Global Health and Higher Education in the Wake of COVID-19  6. Social Justice Education for Contemporary Challenges: The Unavoidable Glocal Connections  7. Future Visions

The authors are experienced and thoughtful, and they provide key insights into the global capacity-building dimension of higher education.  Globalization is integral to universities core missions of education, research, and problem-solving. Microbes and weather do not know national boundaries, nor do ideas, knowledge, or learning. Research and problem-solving must incorporate these realities and make important far-sighted contributions. Universities have made substantial progress in the last generation, but much more leadership is needed. The advances set forth in this book are well-worth considering, even in these busy times.   Peter M. McPherson, past President of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and Michigan State University and former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges offers a timely, comprehensive roadmap for universities in preparing future generations to tackle the pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges facing our interconnected world. This thought-provoking contribution outlines bold, practical initiatives that can help higher-education institutions worldwide fulfill their vital role in building a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future. -- Masaru Yarime, lƒ}