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Autorenporträt
Way Kuo, Emeritus President and University Distinguished Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. The Presidents of France and Italy bestowed on him the title and rank of the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d' Honneur de France and the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia, respectively. He has served on the senior management team of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as the Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Following the 2011 earthquakes in Japan, he was the first invited foreign expert to assess the safety of the First Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima. His popular science book Critical Reflections on Nuclear and Renewable Energy was published in Chinese and English (Wiley-Scrivener), and translated into Japanese, French, and Russian.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface ix
List of Figures and Tables xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xxvii
Part I: Internationalization of Higher Education 1
1 Internationalization without Soulware 5
2 Higher Education in the UK 19
3 On Universities across the Strait 25
4 Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication 55
5 Blind Spots and Loss of Scholarship 69
6 Communicating Rigorously 79
Part II: Integration of Teaching and Research 101
7 The Essence of University 103
8 University Positioning 113
9 Pitfalls of Misaligning Whole-Person Education 123
10 Strategies for Nurturing Generalists and Specialists 137
11 The Successful Evergreen Tree 149
12 Students and I 161
Part III: Separation of Politics and Education 169
13 External Forces that Interfere with Soulware 175
14 Stains in Academic Freedom and Campus Autonomy 193
15 Mechanism of the Separation of Politics and Education 205
16 University: The Seedbed of Social Movements? 219
17 Populism: The Stumbling Block of Academic Progress 231
Part IV: Quality and Evaluation 251
18 Review is the Father of Success 255
19 Rankings in the Humanities and Liberal Arts 273
20 Tuition, Salary Comparisons of Professors and Graduates 281
