Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation in China: Six Recommendations to Shape the Future
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2017-11
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In June, 2017, twenty-five university leaders and scholars gathered at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) to assess obstacles to and opportunities for China’s new LAS initiatives. Representing 20 different institutions, attendees came from leading universities in Mainland China as well as Singapore, Hong Kong, the US, and Canada. The report makes six distinct recommendations (published in English and Chinese by the Center for International Higher Education in its Perspective Series). Participants further concluded that the real opportunity for China in implementing these initiatives goes beyond reforming its own universities. If China can implement and expand these programs in innovative and culturally relevant ways, it will shape education reform throughout the world. The liberal arts and sciences in China are thus at a pivotal moment. The report includes four background papers prepared by Yong Zhao, William Kirby, Gerald Postiglione, Y Ma, and Alice Te, and Qiang Zha
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Pickus, Noah, and Kara Godwin (2017). Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation in China: Six Recommendations to Shape the Future. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19042.
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Noah M. Pickus
Noah Pickus is Associate Provost at Duke University, with responsibilities in academic strategy, global initiatives, educational innovation, and policy engagement. A faculty member in the Sanford School of Public Policy for 25 years, he also serves as Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke Kunshan University, where he previously led curriculum design and faculty hiring. At Duke, he was formerly the Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Pickus has also served as Chief Academic Officer for Minerva Project, as Founding Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University, as Co-Director of the Arizona State University-Georgetown University Academy for Innovation in Higher Education Leadership Intensive Program, and as Co-Director of the Brookings-Duke Immigration Roundtable. Formerly a faculty member at Middlebury College and an American Council on Education Fellow at Franklin & Marshall College, his new book (with Bryan Penprase) The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. His previous books focused on immigration and citizenship, and he has written widely on innovation and globalization in higher education. He received a bachelor’s degree in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and a doctorate in politics from Princeton University.
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