Alternative futures of the university globalisation, multiculturalism, virtualisation and politicisation

Futures

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 589-602

  Inayatullah, Sohail ^a,b   Gidley, Jenny ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Noosa Institute   (Australia)

^c International Educational Initiatives   (Australia)

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References (33)

1. Eisler, Riane. Sacred Pleasure. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1996.
2. Thompson, William Irwin and Spangler, David. Reimagination of the World. Bear and Company, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 1991.
3. The bitch or the bastard of the bottom-line has become a common term to refer to university management.
4. From the Hawaii Research Centre for Futures Research, December 1 1997. Hrcfs-1@hawaii.edu.
5. Burdman, Pamela and Angwin, Julia, "Cal State forging partnerships with 4 High-Tech Firms link upsets some in academia," San Francisco Chronicle (1 December 1997), p. A1.
6. Taking a critical note is James Wood. In his essay, "In California, A Dangerous Deal with Technology Companies," The Chronicle of Higher Education Opinion (February 20, 1998) (received on the listserve HRCFS-L@hawaii.edu on February 24, 1998), B6. Wood writes that: "the proposed partnership would commercialise higher education, allowing profit motives, rather than pedagogical ones, to drive university policies regarding curriculum and employment."
7. Lawrence Wiseman, "The University President: Academic Leadership in An Era of Fund Raising and Legislative Affairs," in Ronald Sims and Serbrenia Sims, eds, Managing institutions of Higher Education into the 21 Century. New York, Greenwood, 1991, p. 5.
8. Lawrence Wiseman, Managing institutions of Higher Education into the 21 Century, Ibid. 1991, p. 5.
9. See Hippen, Andreas, "100,000 fight back the neoliberal attack on education in Germany," HRCFS-L@hawaii.edu. December 16 1997. Email of author: sg885hi@unidui.uni-duisburg.de. For more information see: http://fsrinfo.uni-duisbert.de/streik/
10. For an American perspective of this, see Haro, Roberto, "Developing a Campus Climate for Diversity in the 21st Century," in Sims, Ronald and Sims, Serbrenia, eds, Managing Institutions of Higher Education into the 21 Century, Greenwood, New York, 1991, 49-64.
11. He writes, "Along the Atlantic Seaboard colleges and universities, especially the older, private ones, celebrate these English and European traditions. African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans were, for the most part, never involved in the development of these institutions and are, therefore, like 'strangers from different shores.'" 51 : See Takaki, R, Strangers from Different Shores. Little Brown, Boston, 1989. Haro provides some excellent suggestions for creating a better climate, including establishing a nonthreatening social enviornment, changing the curriculum, diversifying the faculty, reaching out to off-campus minority groups, strengthening ties with feeder institutions which have greater minority representation, employing minority leaders in management, and creating a minority commission that meets directly with the university president. However, his suggestions do not touch on the epistemology-the ways of knowing-that constitute knowl-edge and the university that, too, must be changed before others can feel that they are in the same ocean and are not strangers.
12. Taken from Suleri, Sara, Meatless Days. Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1989, p. 105.
13. Appiah, Kwame Anthony, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992, 157.
14. Udayakumar, S. P. 'Presenting' the past: The Politics of Hindu' History Writing in India. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Hawaii, Department of Political Science, 1995. spkumar@tc.umn.edu
15. For more on this, see Sardar, Zia, "What Makes a University Islamic?" in Zia Sardar, ed., How We Know: llm and the Revival of Knowledge. Grey Seal, London, 1991, pp. 69-85. Series editor, Merryl Wyn Davies.
16. Wall Street Journal (January 7 1998). The executive director of the virtual-university design team says: "This has got to be one of the largest, if not the largest, investments in online education in this country." see: HRCFS-L@hawaii.edu. Organized by University of Hawaii futurist, Jim Dator, this listserve focuses on emerging technologies and alternative futures.
17. Through satellite-based distance education, the African Virtual University intends to provide Sub-Saharan African countries with "university education in science and engineering, noncredit continuing education programs, and remedial instruction." Http:www.worldbank.org.html/extdr/rmc/guide/africa.htm#2africa. For more information contact: Avu@worldbank.org
18. Perkin, Harold, "History of Universities" in Altbach, Philip, International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia. St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1991, p. 182.
19. Perkin, Harold, International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia. Ibid., p. 174.
20. Khan, Shahrukh, "Pakistan" in Altbach, Philip, ed., International Higher Education-An Encyclopedia. St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1991, p. 533.
21. Khan, Shahrukh, International Higher Education-An Encyclopedia. Ibid., p. 535.
22. Khan, Shahrukh, International Higher Education-An Encyclopedia. Ibid., p. 476.
23. Barnett, Ronald, The Idea of Higher Education. Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, Buckingham, England, 1990; p. 16.
24. From an Islamic perspective, the oldest university in the world is al-Azhar in Cairo. It was established in 970.
25. Nandy, Ashis, "The Future of Dissent," Seminar 1997, No. 460, December, 42-45.
26. Perkin, Western Governors University Advances Plans for the First Collaborative Virtual University in the United States, op cit, reference 17, p. 170.
27. Perkin,Western Governors University Advances Plans for the First Collaborative Virtual University in the United States, op cit, reference 17, p. 169.
28. Perkin, Western Governors University Advances Plans for the First Collaborative Virtual University in the United States, op cit, reference 17, p. 169.
29. In itself a non-existent category from the perspective of cyclical Indian historiography. For a brief description of this see, Inayatullah; Sohail, "The Dyanamics of History," New Renaissance, 1997, Vol. 7, No. 1, 22-24.
30. Kautilya, The Arthashastra. Penguin, New Delhi, 1987. Edited, rearranged and translated by Rangarajan, L. N.
31. Also see: Inayatullah; Sohail, "Indian Philosophy-Political," in Craig, Edward, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, London, 1998.
32. Perkin, Western Governors University Advances Plans for the First Collaborative Virtual University in the United States, op cit, reference 17, p. 194.
33. Perkin, Western Governors University Advances Plans for the First Collaborative Virtual University in the United States, op cit, reference 17, p. 194.