Preface to Preparing Universities for an Era of Change

Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan
2014

The Glion Colloquium has established itself as an influential resource in addressing both the challenges and responsibilities of the world’s research universities. Every two years, the Glion Colloquium provides a forum for research university leaders to consider together the role that the world’s leading universities should play in addressing the great challenges and opportunities of our times and to explore together how universities, in partnership with governments, industry and society, can contribute both to solutions of global challenges and especially as partners and leaders in change…