Cierto que el degradado estado actual de "Multiversidades" con zonas micro-especializadas en esto o aquello, queda lejos de lo que en un principio eran las Universidades (presuponiendo la unidad de los saberes allí trabajados por docentes y discentes).
Cierto también que -bien entendida la noción de "Universidad Global"- algo debería recueperarse de aquella unidad de los saberes perdida. Y no sólo reducirse a un asunto de tipo geográfico, mercantil o de gestión.
Simon Marginson of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, in Australia, outlined the broad context for the conference. "Higher education, ranging beyond the nation-state, is a central driver of globalization," he said, speaking at Thursday's opening session.
Beyond the 'Multiversity'
Research universities are among the most globally connected institutions in the world, Mr. Marginson said, and some have evolved into a new kind of model institution that he termed a "global research university." Such institutions go beyond the "multiversity," the model defined in the 1960s by Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California. That model, Mr. Marginson said, was a "university with multiple constituencies that did everything." The global research university, he said, "is the multiversity, plus more research, much more mobility, global systems, and ranking."
But this new paradigm for higher education also brings with it new sets of tensions, he said—for example, between mass teaching and a focus on conducting elite research, or between national and international perspectives. "Governments and some institutions are nationally blinkered," Mr. Marginson said, but global research institutions have "global visions and ambitions."
via chronicle.com
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