The Future of Indian Universities
Comparative and International Perspectives
Edited by C. Raj Kumar
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Virander S. Chauhan
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction by C. Raj Kumar
PART I Indian Universities: Imaginations, Aspirations and Expectations
1. The Future of Higher Education in India
C. Raj Kumar
2. An Invitation to a Thought Experiment: Quality, Diversity and the Epistemics of University
Shiv Visvanathan
3. The Future of Indian Universities: Voices from within Beckoning for the Future
Indira Parikh
4. The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective
Madhava Menon
5. Strategic Management of Expansion of Higher Education in India: Key Policy Interventions for Change
Pawan Agarwal
6. Building New Institutions of Excellence in India: Three Case Studies of Innovation
Pramath Raj Sinha
PART II Indian Higher Education in a Comparative Perspective:
Policy, Regulation and Management
7. Future of Indian Universities: Need for a Liberalized Legal Regime
Francis Julian
8. Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education
Kanti Bajpai
9. Challenges of Knowledge Creation for Indian Universities
Stephen P. Marks
10. Science-Policy Interfaces in an Era of Global Commodification
Barbara Harris-White
11. Creating Educational Excellence: The Role of Culture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Shailendra Mehta
12. Challenges of Creating a World-class Global Private University in India: Perspective of an Administrator
Y.S.R. Murthy
13. Deconstructing the Discourse on University Social Responsibility
Anamika Srivastava
PART III: Pedagogy of Interdisciplinarity: Law, Humanities and Global Studies in India
14. The Phoenix of Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education
Yugank Goyal
15. The Role of Humanities in a University Education
Alice Prochaska
16. The Liberal Arts in the American Context: What India Can Learn from Western Liberal Education
Carol M. Bresnahan
17. Public Policy as a Practice
R. Sudarshan
18. Global Studies in Indian Universities: Past Imperfect, Future Circumspect
Sreeram Chaulia
19. Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India
Sital Kalantry
Index
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