PREFACE A WORD FROM THE EDITORS AND A CALL TO ACTION Sjur Bergan, Tony Gallagher, Ira Harkavy, Ronaldo Munck and Hilligje van’t Land
PART I – CONTEXT Chapter 1 – Universities must help shape the post-Covid-19 world
Ira Harkavy, Sjur Bergan, Tony Gallagher and Hilligje van’t Land
Chapter 2 – Higher education, civic engagement, Covid-19 and the “new normal”
Ronaldo Munck
Chapter 3 – The pre-Covid-19 world: race and inequity in higher education
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr
PART II – CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES Chapter 4 – Some challenges facing higher education in Europe in view of the Covid-19 pandemic
Ellen Hazelkorn
Chapter 5 – Challenges to US higher education in performing local missions during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
David Maurrasse
Chapter 6 – Public responsibility for higher education in the time of Covid-19
Sjur Bergan
Chapter 7 – Past, present, future: re-thinking the social responsibility of US higher education in light of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter
Ira Harkavy and Rita A. Hodges
Chapter 8 – Beyond a “new normal”: Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and the remaking of higher education
Peter Englot and Nancy Cantor
Chapter 9 – University challenge – The role of research-intensive universities in crisis management
Åse Gornitzka and Svein Stølen
Chapter 10 – Maireann na daoine ar scath a chéile: Dublin City University, Covid-19 and the creation of the “next normal”
Daire Keogh
Chapter 11 – Public work and reclaiming the democratic impulse of higher education in these pandemic times
Paul C. Pribbenow
Chapter 12 – Higher education should embrace this liminal moment because there will be no “new normal”
James T. Harris and Nicholas R. Santilli
Chapter 13 – Covid-19 and “the crises in higher education”
Liviu Matei
Chapter 14 – Resilience and resistance: the community college in a pandemic
Brian Murphy
Chapter 15 – The University of Bologna during the Covid-19 pandemic: protect, provide and innovate – Responses from a resilient community
Elena Luppi, Elena Consolini, Alessandra Scagliarini, Mirko Degli Esposti and Francesco Ubertini
Chapter 16 – Re-thinking African higher education in the post-Covid-19 era
Barnabas Nawangwe
Chapter 17 – Leveraging the Covid-19 crisis to advance global sustainable universities: re-creation of valuable higher education
Kiyoshi Yamada and Koji Nakamura
Chapter 18 – Leadership and opportunities for sustainable higher education vis-à-vis the pandemic
Santiago Acosta
Chapter 19 – American higher education: rescuing democracy’s purpose and policies
Martha J. Kanter and Carol Geary Schneider
Chapter 20 – Romanian higher education facing Covid-19: new challenges for the university–state partnership
Ligia Deca, Delia Gologan and Robert Santa
PART III – A DEMOCRATIC, SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSITY Chapter 21 – Academic freedom and institutional autonomy: victims of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Sjur Bergan
Chapter 22 – The impact of Covid-19 on internationalisation and student mobility: an opportunity for innovation and inclusion?
Dorothy Kelly
Chapter 23 – Internationalisation of higher education in a post-Covid-19 world: overcoming challenges and maximising opportunities
Hans de Wit and Giorgio Marinoni
Chapter 24 – Recognition of foreign qualifications in the time of Covid-19
Stig Arne Skjerven
Chapter 25 – From fire-fighting to re-thinking external quality assurance: European quality assurance agencies’ response to the challenges of the
Covid-19 pandemic
Maria Kelo
Chapter 26 – Sustainable financing of higher education after the pandemic
Jamil Salmi
Chapter 27 – The challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic for higher education legislation in Europe
Dennis Farrington
Chapter 28 – The challenges of the Covid-19 crisis for students
Robert Napier
Chapter 29 – Addressing the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: a view from higher education staff
Rob Copeland
Chapter 30 – Universities as catalysts of post-Covid recovery and renewal in communities
John Gardner
Chapter 31 – The local university mission after Covid-19: two Irish case studies
Tony Gallagher and Ronaldo Munck
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