Universitas - (Paperback)

About the Book

Universitas: Why Higher Education Must Be Internationalunites the voices of experienced scholars from around the globe in an open access plea to embrace and improve the internationalization of higher education, to combat parochialism, to foster a critical globalist ethos, and to defend the quality of teaching and research.

Book Synopsis

This open access book intervenes with urgency in the debate on the virtues, and pitfalls of internationalizing higher education. It unites voices of academics from around the globe with considerable experience with international higher education in a well-considered defense of the university as a public space transcending locality, counteracting parochialism, and defending the quality of scholarship. All authors writing in this volume have themselves followed international trajectories, across different parts of the world. At the same time, all are now settled academics. They have been observing the relevant trends in their work environments and have been actively involved in managing them. Universitas brings their informed auto-ethnographic reflections in conversation with each other and connects them into a systematic analysis that allows us to recognize and communicate the virtues of internationalizing higher education and to better navigate its challenges. At the same time, the auto-biographical subtexts of the contributions vividly illustrate how international experiences impact personal and professional development and help make the case for defending the internationalization of higher education against its detractors. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Amsterdam.

Review Quotes

Annette Freyburg-Inan's meticulously researched and lucidly presented volume shows the obstacles and strategic possibilities for internationalizing universities. It weaves together several case studies, highlighting their successes and failures. This book offers fresh insights and powerful analysis. Universitas: Why Higher Education Must Be International is most highly recommended.

About the Author

Annette Freyberg-Inan is professor of international relations theory at the University of Amsterdam.