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12 years ago, an astronomer and an ethicist walked into a bar in Chicago. This is what we discovered: despite the long odds, entrepreneurial leaders around the world are offering innovative, high quality educational ventures from which we all can learn.

“Penprase and Pickus lead us through a cutting-edge exploration of new, innovative global universities . as a transformative experience for individuals, but also the regions and nations in which they serve and contribute.”

@ AACU Annual Meeting, please join @GildaBarabino Teri Cannon, Gilda Barabino, & Randall Bass on Jan 18 for a Roundtable THE NEW GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES (w? @bpenprase and the experience of 3 leaders from @MinervaUni @OlinCollege @gu_ldt @PrincetonUPress

Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus on The New Global Universities | Princeton University Press

Today's Publication Day! Come for the stories and the global our of higher ed and stay for what inspired us, what surprised us, and what we're still puzzling through. It's a peak into the future that takes seriously the past.

RT @PrincetonUPress: Happy Pub Day to The New Global Universities by @bpenprase & @npickus! This compelling book reimagines higher educatio….

Delighted to see THE NEW GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES included in @Forves Best Higher Education Books of 2023 alongside fellow @princetonupress author @Wildavsky.

Looking forward to talking about The New Global Universities book tomorrow at @SUSTechSZ in Shenzen, China at the @timeshighered Summit

How did a child of Berkeley in the 60s end up on a podcast about patriotism? @carpeDiFemme and @thisrunson had a lot of good questions for me – about that story, immigration and, apparently, about the Dallas Cowboys.

About right? “What’s great about universities is also what’s problematic about them,” says Pickus. “They have been around for so long and really do stand the test of time, but they often do this by throttling new possibilities.”

This is GREAT news Jennifer Chambers! So much opportunity for synergies and I'm so glad to see that you'll be in a dual leadership role. There may be opportunities for Duke Kunshan University as well!

Join us at Duke University and Duke Learning Innovation!

Bryan Penprase and I are delighted to share the cover of our new book, The New Global Universities – out in December from Princeton University Press. Terrific blurbs are starting to come in and here’s a summary and preorder info:

Looking forward to being a discussant in Toronto this May.Repurposing University Education: The Role of Liberal Arts Education in Asia .27 May 2023 | 10:00 to 11:30 EDT |.Register virtually at: 

At the ASU+GSV Summit in April, I moderated a terrific panel about “Hybrid is the New Normal” in higher ed and K-12 across the US, India, and Europe with James Genone Pamela T. Felix Ohswald and @sujjwal. You can watch the full #asugsvsummit session now:

I’m looking forward to moderating this panel at the ASU+GSV Summit and to catching up with colleagues from Minerva Project and more – and to begin talking about The New Global University: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century, which will be out from…

James Genone led and several of us contributed to this new whitepaper on #hybridlearning from Minerva Project

I first met @cjmccoy as a participant in the ASU-Georgetown Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leaders program that I was co-sherpa for with @NeboCompany and he is now doing great things at Shenandoah University -- listen in to this conversation alon…

Well this was wholly unexpected - glad to have it happen alongside @BillKirbyHBS and our dueling bowls! @jonadrabi.