CONTENTS
1. Introduction : Forces Shaping University Futures / Sohail Inaytullah ; Jennifer Gidley = 1
Part 1 Western Perspectives on the Futures of the University
2. University Traditions and the Challenge of Global Transformation / Philip Spies = 19
3. Higher Education at the Brink / Peter Manicas = 31
4. Will the Future Include Us? Reflections of a Practitioner of Higher Education / Deane Neubauer = 41
5. The Virtual University and the Professoriate / Michael Skolnik = 55
6. The Futures for Higher Education : From Bricks to Bytes to Fare Thee Well! / Jim Dator = 69
7. Why Pay for a College Education? / Tom Abeles = 79
8. Of Minds, Markets, and Machines : How Universities Might Transcend the Ideology of Commodification / David Rooney ; Greg Hearn = 91
9. At the Edge of Knowledge : Toward Polyphonic Multiversities / Paul Wildman = 105
Part 2 Nonwestern Perspectives on the Futures of the University
10. Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissenting Futures of the University / Ashis Nandy = 115
11. Pakistani Universities : Past, Present, and Future / Tariq Rahman = 125
12. Civilizing the State : The University in the Middle East / Shahrzad Mojab = 137
13. Scholar-Activism for a New World : The Future of the Caribbean University / Anne Hickling-Hudson = 149
14. Internationalizing the Curriculum : For Profit or Planet? / Patricia Kelly = 161
Part 3 Alternative Universities
15. The Crisis of the University : Feminist Alternatives for the 21st Century and Beyond / Ivana Milojevic = 175
16. Homo Tantricus : Tantra as an Episteme for Future Generations / Marcus Bussey = 187
17. Universities Evolving : Advanced Learning Networks and Experience Camps / Patricia Nicholson = 199
18. Consciousness-based Education : A Future of Higher Education in the New Millennium / James Grant = 207
Part 4 Transformations of the University
19. Corporate Networks or Bliss for All : The Politics of the Futures of the University / Sohail Inayatullah = 221
20. Unveiling the Human Face of University Futures / Jennifer Gidley = 235
Selected Bibliography = 247
Index = 251
About Editors and Contributors = 267
