The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

Wednesday, 06 March 2024 | 15:30 to 17:00 EST | Virtually via Zoom

With Noah Pickus, Associate Provost, Duke University; Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation, Duke Kunshan University

This talk chronicles the origins, launch, and impact of eight innovative colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America, describing the combination of intellectual courage, entrepreneurial audacity, and adaptive leadership needed to invent educational institutions today. These new educational institutions include two universities in Asia and the Middle East built by well-established American parent institutions, others in Africa and North America that offer holistic reform from the ground up and leverage new technologies to lower costs, and still others that adapted the American liberal arts model to Asian and African contexts. Their experiences offer lessons for future founders of new universities—and for those who want to renew and rejuvenate existing ones.

Noah Pickus is an Associate Provost, Duke University and Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke Kunshan University where he oversees the Institute for Global Higher Education. He was formerly chief academic officer at Minerva Project, director of Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, founding director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University, and cohort codirector of the Arizona State University-Georgetown University Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership. His new book (co-authored with Bryan Penprase) is The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press); previous publications include True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism (Princeton), Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield), and (with Kara Godwin) Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation in China (Center for International Higher Education). He received his PhD in politics from Princeton University.

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This event is presented by the Office of the Provost, the York Centre for Asian Research, Faculty of Education, and York International at York University.