Univer-Cities: Strategic Dilemmas of Medical Origins and Selected Modalities

Building on the second volume of Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future — From Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia edited by Anthony SC Teo and published in 2015, this third edition presents 12 chapters weaving the dilemmas of strategy and leadership in one of humanity's beloved institutions, the university (with a long view strategy) and the city (a relatively shorter one). Based on the 2016 Univer-Cities conference hosted by the University of Newcastle, contributors of this volume reflect on the deliberations made by the conference participants, including academic leaders from University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley, urban architects, policy planners, and public office holders. The book hopes to engage the universities' top leadership in addressing accusations of elitism by re-societalisation of the varsities with their eco-system. Often criticised for being unresponsive to the pressing and accumulating problems faced by cities and societies, more can be done for universities to exert their socio-economic benefits and contribute to the progress of humankind. It is a call for academic elites to integrate basic research with the universities' strengths in medical disciplines for community advancement, urban planning, innovation systems and regional economic growth. Contents: Foreword (Koh Boon Hwee) Acknowledgements About the Contributors Welcome Address (Caroline McMillen) Keynote Address (Leszek Borysiewicz) Univer-Cities: Strategic Dilemmas of Strategy & Leadership — Medical Origins & Select Modalities (Anthony SC Teo) The Trans-Disciplinary Impact on Academic Evolution: From Medicine to Global Univer-Cities: Dilemma & Strategy: Shaping the University of Newcastle, Australia (R John Aitken and H Le Gresley) Medicine in Cambridge (Gordon Johnson) Meeting Societal Challenges Through Medical Education and Research:LKCMedicine, NTU-ICL Singapore (Bertil Andersson) Univer-City of Zurich: An Evolutionary-Medical Perspective (Frank Rühli and Maciej Henneberg) Univer-Cities 2013 Updates: Berkeley, Ottawa, Hong Kong: University of California, Berkeley in the Bay Region: The Present and Future of a Public Research University (Emily B Marthinsen and John J Parman) An Architecture of Light: Ottawa, the City of Light (Roseann O'Reilly Runte) Re-Inventing the University of Hong Kong in Both Mortar and Spirit: Building the Centennial Campus (John Malpas) Ecosystems of Globalizing Univer-Cities: Strategic and Evolving Implications: Safe Water for the Developing World: Rhetoric and Reality (Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada) On Strategy for Developing an Innovative University: S-Factor, S-Gap and Vector Delta (δ) (Nam P Suh) Multi-Campus Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions (Gabriel Hawawini) A Singapore University Catering to the Needs of a Population Amidst a Volatile and Changing Economy (Cheong Hee Kiat) Appendices: Advisory Council of the Univer-Cities Conference 2016 Programme of the Univer-Cities Conference 2016 About the Unique Univer-Cities Conference 2016 Index Readership: Campus planners, architects, landscape and lighting consultants, city planners, mayors, futurists, educators. Keywords:Univer-Cities;Uno, Duo & Tri-Univercities;Medical Origins;Nuclearisation;Strategic Dilemmas of Univer-City Strategy & Human Leadership;Radical Newcastle/Novocastrians;Selected Modalities of Water, Quantum Leap, Deadlocked Productivity Gap & New Models;Alignment Economic Restructuring;Asymmetrical Globalisation;Disruptive Technology;Reskilling;Inequality;Social Compact;Re-societalisationReview:Key Features: Affirms the evidence that a young univer-city prevails in these interesting times of unceasing change, restructuring and austerity Highlights the opportunities and dangers faced by univer-cities Sets the stage for future dialogue in 2019 Univer-Cities conference "The Challenge of Univer-Cities Aligning Mission to Continual Economic Restructuring, Disruptive Globalisation &...