Places of engagement : [electronic resource] reflections on higher education in 2040 : a global approach / Edited by Armand Heijnen; Rob van der Vaart.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword / Ottow, Annetje / Pijpers, Anton -- Introduction / van der Vaart, Rob / Heijnen, Armand -- Part 1. Reflections on core values -- Autonomy: A practice serving a purpose / Noorda, Sijbolt -- The positive and fundamental value of excellence in universities / Beretz, Alain -- 'Let the lightning strike!' - Free speech and the university / Stolker, Carel -- Part 2. Reflections on core tasks -- What ought we to wish from university graduates? / Kennedy, James -- The student in 2040 / Dong, Rhea van der -- Setting the agenda: 'To whom are we answering'? / Miedema, Frank -- On the need for universities to engage in lifelong learning / Schippers, Joop -- Part 3. Reflections on learning and teaching -- Diversifying the university menu / Dijck, José van -- The importance of evidence-based development of teaching and learning at university / Lindblom, Sari / Kola, Jukka -- Re-thinking the higher education curriculum: Challenges, possibilities, and dreams / Fung, Dilly -- The university as a community in the digital age / Mulder, Anka -- Part 4. Reflections on the global and the local -- Building the first global network university / Sexton, John -- A new dawn? Academia moving eastwards / Andersson, Bertil -- In search of the South African university - Pages from a Stellenbosch diary / Vale, Peter -- The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy / Deketelaere, Kurt -- Part 5. Reflections on institutional logic -- Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education / Crow, Michael / Anderson, Derrick / Whitman, Kyle -- Don't be scared; be prepared / Baarsma, Barbara -- The idea of the university: National asset or ivory tower? / Chng, Huang Hoon -- Quality assurance: What it was, is, and should be / Dittrich, Karl -- A Hooge School en Maatschappij for our time! On the difficult relationship between two types of universities / Dorsman, Leen -- About the authors

In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large number of conversations with leaders in higher education worldwide.