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Accelerated universities : ideas and money combine to build academic excellence /

"During the past several decades, several "highly-resourced, accelerated research universities" have been established around the world to pursue--and achieve--academic and research excellence. These institutions are entirely new, not existing universities that were reconfigured. Accel...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Altbach, Philip G. (Editor ), Reisberg, Liz (Editor ), Salmi, Jamil (Editor ), Froumin, Isak D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2018]
Colección:Global perspectives on higher education ; volume 40
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The art of starting a new university : lessons of experience / Jamil Salmi, Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg and Isak Froumin
  • From technical school to world-class polytechnic : École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne / Gerard Escher
  • Building and sustaining academic excellence : the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Tony F. Chan
  • Innovation and the development of human resources in the Gulf : Masdar Institute of Science and Technology / Fred Moavenzadeh
  • A world-class experiment in Kazakhstan : Nazarbayev University / Shigeo Katsu and Aray Saniyazova
  • Olin College of Engineering : reinventing engineering education in the United States / Richard K. Miller with Ann-Marie Dorning
  • Building a new academic institution: the Singapore University of Technology and Design / Thomas L. Magnanti
  • Building Skoltech : a university for economic development / Edward Crawley
  • The University of Luxembourg : a national excellence initiative / Franck Leprevost
  • Establishing a world-class university from scratch : an initiator's perspective / Artemy Morozov and Pavel Shchedrovitskiy.