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Ben Wildavsky: Future of Global Higher Education

The key to the future of global higher education will require the freest possible movement of people and ideas, says Ben Wildavsky.
This Carnegie Council event took place on May 5, 2010. For the full video, audio, and transcript go to http://www.cceia.org




In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to more people than ever before.

Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion. But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically.

Ben Wildavsky is a senior fellow in research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Previously, he was education editor of U.S. News & World Report, economic policy correspondent for the National Journal, higher education reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and executive editor of the Public Interest. He has written for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Reviews:

"Comprehensive and fascinating. . . . [Wildavsky] reports on American universities, notably NYU, branching out internationally; on foreign governments, like China's, spending vast sums to improve their own institutions, partly to attract scholars and students from abroad; on for-profit businesses, like Laureate and the Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan Inc., planting campuses in remote global locations. . . . This is Mr. Wildavsky's major argument. The globalization of education is producing what he calls a 'free trade in minds'--beneficial not only to countries sending their students abroad and countries accepting them but also, through positive externalities, to the broader world."--James K. Glassman, Wall Street Journal

"Academic globalisation has gone into overdrive in the modern university. Some of this is along familiar lines--academics collaborating with ever more foreign colleagues and sabbatical-seekers contriving to spend ever more time abroad. But Mr. Wildavsky demonstrates that globalisation is now much more complicated than just cross-border collaboration spiced up with junkets. . . . This is a fascinating story."--Economist

"Readable, fast-paced. . . . The global race to attract the top talent among both staff and students is affecting the academy across the globe. . . . As a description of the state of play on all these issues in the summer of 2009 (approximately), the book is wonderfully successful."--Sir Howard Newby, Times Higher Education

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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: What Is Global Higher Education--and Why Does It Matter? 1
Chapter One: The Worldwide Race for Talent 14
Chapter Two: Branching Out 42
Chapter Three: Wanted: World-Class Universities 70
Chapter Four: College Rankings Go Global 100
Chapter Five: For-Profits on the Move 141
Chapter Six: Free Trade in Minds 167


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00:00:00 - Logo
00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
00:00:55 - GK Intro
00:03:56 - The Story of Bob script w/Vern Sutton
00:12:48 - "The Choral Blues" - St. Olaf Choir
00:17:24 - Elim Lutheran Anniv. Script with Philip Brunelle on piano
00:23:26 - "Lutheran Polka" - Dan Newton and Shoes
00:25:06 - GK Powdermilk Intro
00:25:49 - Powdermilk Break
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00:27:28 - Guy Noir script with Suzy Bogguss
00:42:47 - "Sign Up for Church Work" - VocalEssence
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00:47:10 - "Get Down on Your Knees and Pray" - Del McCoury
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01:06:03 - Flood script
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01:50:42 - "Children of the Heavenly Father" - GK and Maria Jette
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March 3, 2007
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion it's another special re-broadcast: The Best of Broadway. We pulled an overnighter in the tape vault and found some BIG highlights from under the bright lights. Kristin Chenoweth sings Oklahoma!, Walter Bobbie tears into Alexander's Ragtime Band, Vern Sutton and Rob Fisher offer a tribute to the Broadway Chorus, Bonnie Raitt fulfills her dream of singing the part of Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady (under the guidance of Guy Noir), and Marvin & Mavis Smiley do Springtime on Broadway. Tune in Saturday for all that plus, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the news from Lake Wobegon.

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00:00:00 Logo
00:00:12 Tishomingo Blues
00:00:57 GK Open
00:02:37 "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - Walter Bobbie and Shoes
00:05:21 "Dream a Little Dream" - Kristin Chenoweth w/Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks
00:08: GK talks with Kristin Chenoweth
00:09:55 "The Girl in 14-G" - Kristin Chenoweth and Rob Fisher
00:14:46 Guy Noir w/Bonnie Raitt
00:25:50 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

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00:27:38 The Fruit Fly script
00:44:46 GK talks with Vern Sutton
00:46:11 Tribute to the Broadway Chorus ("Ragtime" - "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" - "El Capitan" - "Never Mind Bo Peep" - "Tea For Two" - "You'll Never Walk Alone" - "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" - "Brigadoon" - "The Night of My Nights" - "Racing With The Clock" - "Ascot Gavotte" - "Make Our Garden Grow")
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01:09:02 "Taylor The Latte Boy" - Kristin Chenoweth

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01:32:12 "Lotus Blossom" - Rich Dworsky, Andy Stein and Pat Donohue
01:34:56 "Springtime on Broadway" - Marvin and Mavis Smiley a.k.a. Robin and Linda Williams
01:39:06 Buddy script
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01:55:22 "Oklahoma" - Kristin Chenoweth