The Global University

1. Introduction
Adam R. Nelson

Part I. Regionalism(s) and Global Higher-Education Reform

2. Global Aspirations and Strategizing for World-Class Status: New Modes of Higher-Education Governance and the Emergence of Regulatory Regionalism in East Asia
Ka Ho Mok

3. Contributing to the Southeast Asian Knowledge Economy? Australian Offshore Campuses in Malaysia and Vietnam
Anthony R. Welch

Part II. The Changing Dimensions of University Governance

4. Collegiality and Hierarchy: Coordinating Principles in Higher Education
Ivar Bleiklie

5. The Twenty-First-Century University: Dilemmas of Leadership and Organizational Futures
Rosemary Deem

Part III. Academic Roles and the Purposes of Universities

6. Medieval Universities and Aspirations to Universal Significance
Ian P. Wei

7. The Changing Role of the Academic: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Xu Xiaozhou, Xue Shan

Part IV. Shifting Patterns of Graduate and Undergraduate Education

8. Toward General Education in the Global University: The Chinese Model
Chen Hongjie, Shen Wenqin, Cai Leiluo

9. Doctoral Education and the Global University: Student Mobility, Hierarchy, and Canadian Government Policy
Glen A. Jones, Bryan Gopaul

Part V. Universities and External Funding

10. What Can Modern Universities Learn from the Past? English Universities Working with Industry, 1870–1914
John Taylor

11. Universities and the Effects of External Funding: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Nordic Countries
Peter Maassen

12. Conclusion: Lessons from the Past, Considerations for the Future
Adam R. Nelson, Ian P. Wei

Keywords: Education, History of Education, Higher Education