Accelerated universities : : ideas and money combine to build academic excellence / / edited by Philip G. Altbach [and three others].
During the past several decades, several “highly-resourced, accelerated research universities” have been established around the world to pursue—and achieve—academic and research excellence. These institutions are entirely new, not existing universities that were reconfigured. Accelerated Universitie...
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| Superior document: | Global Perspectives on Higher Education ; Volume 40 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global perspectives on higher education ;
Volume 40. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- The Art of Starting a New University / Jamil Salmi , Philip G. Altbach , Liz Reisberg and Isak Froumin
- From Technical School to World-Class Polytechnic / Gérard Escher
- Building and Sustaining Academic Excellence / Tony F. Chan
- Innovation and the Development of Human Resources in the Gulf / Fred Moavenzadeh
- A World-Class Experiment in Kazakhstan / Shigeo Katsu and Aray Saniyazova
- Olin College of Engineering / Richard K. Miller and Ann-Marie Dorning
- Building a New Academic Institution / Thomas L. Magnanti
- Building Skoltech / Edward Crawley
- The University of Luxembourg / Franck Leprévost
- Establishing a World-Class University from Scratch / Artemy Morozov and Pavel Shchedrovitskiy.