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🗞 New Blog post: Innovation in a Changing Funding Landscape – Part 2. This follow-up post explores how budget cuts in university capital spending can drive innovation in campus development. It highlights successful strategies like the Heart of Campus project at Glasgow Caledonian University, the experimental teaching spaces at King's College London, and pandemic-inspired concepts such as shared spaces and virtual learning, all of which emphasise the growing need for adaptable and flexible campus designs. 📅 This is our second post over a series that will explore current sector-wide issues. https://lnkd.in/ePF_vzmc

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Here’s another vertical video report I did for City, University of London. Here I talk about how the academic institution did in the latest release of the University league tables by Complete University Guide, which ranks UK universities nationally and regionally 🇬🇧🎓

Congratulations to four outstanding Illinois colleges who were ranked among the top 100 in the country, according to new 2025 Best Colleges rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report: #6 —Northwestern University #11 — University of Chicago #33 — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #80 — University of Illinois Chicago The rankings evaluated 1,500 colleges and universities using more than a dozen measures of academic quality. While we can debate the methodology and the merits of such a ranking, I always like to highlight when our colleges in Illinois are doing well.

Excited that my paper "The future of higher education and the claim of globalisation: revisioning the past, re-imagining the future" has just been published in Globalisation, Societies and Education. The paper discusses how a particular globalist imaginary has taken hold of how we think about higher education, including how its history is being reconstructed in historical-sociological narratives that posit a transition from a nation-state centred to a globally oriented university. This globalist imaginary configures discourses on higher education futures and simultaneously reconstructs the history of higher education in terms of a process of global isomorphism. In this paper, we discuss several misconceptions related to this globalist historiography and argue for a more nuanced understanding of the past of higher education, which reflects the multifaceted nature of higher education’s history and paves the way for higher education futures that are different from the ones proposed under the banner of globalisation. https://lnkd.in/d2Eg9Zsf

Appreciate this message affirming the crucial role that universities play in today's society from George Mason University's Provost Ken Walsh: The beating heart of any enlightened democracy is the free exchange of ideas. And the lifeblood of any great research university is knowledge incubation through unfettered scholarly inquiry. That process that can be imprecise, messy, and unpredictable – and exhilarating and rewarding beyond measure. But unfettered inquiry has always come with an inevitable byproduct: opposition. While new ideas inform progress and inspire dreamers, they also offend, threaten, and outrage critics. They always have, and they always will. As faculty, we expect our ideas to be contested, even vociferously, from time to time. Unfortunately, universities are currently experiencing opposition of a different kind – attempts to prevent the mere expression of certain ideas. Some faculty, including here at George Mason, are enduring virulent public recriminations – even threats – over the contents of their scholarly research. While this is not new for academia, it bears repeating that it is also repugnant to the very idea of a free and enlightened society. George Mason University’s motto has always spoken volumes in three powerful words: Freedom and learning. First, last, and always, this is what we stand for. It is also what accounts for our broad diversity of faculty viewpoint. This university’s commitment to maintaining such an environment for our faculty is total and non-negotiable. After all, the future depends on it.

Introducing the 2024-2034 University of Massachusetts Amherst Strategic Plan: "For the Common Good" Explore the vision shaping the next decade at University of Massachusetts Amherst through our comprehensive new strategic plan, designed to foster community, innovation, and inclusivity. https://lnkd.in/eSmMqUpT

Really important and timely article by James Coe in Wonkhe which should be essential reading for anyone interested in the burgeoning civic role of universities in the UK. The question I take from this: beyond the usual stakeholders, embedding of SDGs etc.is your civic mission actually touching the lives of people that don't have any connection to the university? This is the acid test of the civic movement in my view- admirably summed up in the statement that the point is not to bring the university to the world but the world to the university - will the university come to mean something in people's lives that have hitherto had little or nothing to do with it? Can it become again - or perhaps for the first time - a source of civic pride for the communities they purport to serve? Or will the civic agenda become increasingly inward looking, a question for universities only, lost in increasingly remote discussions of impact dashboards etc. This is exactly where things stand right now which is why this is such an important and timely intervention.

The attack on social sciences and humanities in the UK is abhorrent. It is fundamentally down to a set narrative that says these disciplines are neither prestigious or profitable. This is an ignorant perspective, and a lie based on greed, pretensions and snobbery that is warping the minds of prospective learners. The research and intellectual contributions of the greatest minds behind our very civilizations pertain to subjects under these overarching disciplinary themes. To negate their value, in and to society, is to negate the value of society itself! The university sector has a moral responsibility to change the narrative, and champion the profitability of such disciplines in our society. Any university that fails in that fundamental responsiblity has no business calling themselves a university at all.

A survey of high school students who decided not to attend a four year college right away. Many important bits of information! Hardly anyone cites politics as a reason, and only a quarter cites cost. Almost all say they will pursue higher education at some point. It suggests colleges should invest in cultivating recent high school grads who have considered a 4-year degree but not followed through. https://lnkd.in/erEMBYEP