Faculty Author Talk | The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

Noah Pickus, Associate Provost at Duke U. and Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at DKU, will talk about his newly published book, The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century. Get inspired at this Faculty Author Talk session, and join an enlightening discussion with our esteemed panelists.

• Time: Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 4:00 – 5:30pm
• Venue: IB Lecture Hall (Innovation Building Lecture Hall)
• Zoom ID: 952 0093 8613

The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century is available at DKU Library.

PUP Author & keynote speaker: 

Noah Pickus

Associate Provost at Duke University, with responsibilities in academic strategy, global initiatives, and educational innovation, and Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke Kunshan University.

Host:

(Helen) Hong Xu, Ph.D.

University Librarian, Duke Kunshan University Library

Associate University Librarian for DKU Library Services, Duke University

Moderator:

Zach Fredman

Associate Professor of History, Duke Kunshan University

Division Chair for Division of Arts and Humanities, Undergraduate Program, Duke Kunshan University

Guest Speaker:

Daniel A. Bell

Chair Professor of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean at Shandong University’s School of Political Science and Public Administration from 2017 to 2022.

Scott MacEachern

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Duke Kunshan University

Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University

Selina Lai-Henderson

Associate Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University

Co-Director of Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University

Title Content Brief: 

Higher education in the United States is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant. In China, too, there are calls for universities to produce more creative and nimble students who are able to work across different areas of knowledge to solve pressing problems. In this era of uncertain transformation, how can higher education reinvent itself? In “The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century,” Noah Pickus describes the courage, entrepreneurial spirit, and leadership required to reshape higher education in today’s society, based on the development and launch processes of eight innovative colleges and universities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. The book offers valuable insights and practical experiences for education innovators worldwide, demonstrating how higher education institutions can transform to fulfill their visions and missions in education.

About Princeton University Press  

Founded in 1905, Princeton University Press (PUP) is one of the world’s leading academic publishers, publishing books for scholars, students, and serious readers everywhere. An independent nonprofit with close ties to Princeton University, the Press publishes widely in the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences, bringing influential voices and ideas to the world stage through academic scholarship, advancing the frontiers of scholarly knowledge and promoting human conversations. 

Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, and three National Book Awards. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics. 

Following the successful establishment of its first international office in Europe in 1999, Princeton University Press officially opened its China office in 2017, because of China’s growing investment in higher education and scholarly research and its increasing centrality in the world of ideas and the world itself.

Academic Presence in China

To enhance academic communication between Chinese scholars and those in the West, PUP China office has been collaborating frequently with outstanding scholars and academic institutions in China, designing initiatives to pair up PUP authors and local Chinese scholars for dialogues in their fields.

We hope the ideas embedded in the academic publications can go beyond book launch and selling, but to provoke people’s thoughts and stimulate the conversations among students and scholars, across disciplines and among different cultures.