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If you toil in the groves of academe, the theme of our MAY DISCUSSION =E2=
=80=93
whither the university? =E2=80=93 is sure to pique your interest. Cristina =
Escrigas
takes up this question in her new essay =E2=80=9CA Higher Calling for Highe=
r
Education,=E2=80=9D which you can read at
www.greattransition.org/publication/a-higher-calling-for-higher-education.

Peering through a wide-angle lens, Cristina, the former Executive Director
of the Global University for Innovation (GUNi), sees an institution beset
by forces of =E2=80=9Cmarketization=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cinternationalizat=
ion,=E2=80=9D but still holding
the potential to become a transformative agent =E2=80=93 if it can transfor=
m itself.

Will the university remain a dependent variable in the calculus of
market-driven globalization? Or can it instead become a =E2=80=9CGT Univers=
ity=E2=80=9D? I
put the question this way in the title of my own modest contribution to a
GUNi compendium: =E2=80=9CHigher Education in an Unsettled Century: Handmai=
den or
Pathmaker?=E2=80=9D Cristina=E2=80=99s hard-hitting answers deserve your at=
tention =E2=80=93 and
response.

Comments are welcome through MAY 31. Cristina=E2=80=99s essay will be publi=
shed in
June, along with selected comments drawn from the forthcoming discussion.

Looking forward,
Paul Raskin
GTI Director

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EVEN-NUMBERED months are for publication and distribution. You will receive
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