Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum☆
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Introduction to the forum
Jean-Paul D. Addie and Michele Acuto
Singapore and the milieu of the new global urban university
K.C. Ho
Is the academic experience, its social life, and university mission likely to be distinctive when the university is located in a city-state which is at the same time a global city?
My graduate student has just returned from a short field trip to a neighboring country and we were discussing plans for the longer term stay when he remarked that one of the first comments people he met there was the recognition of his Egyptian heritage once they found out his name. We talked about how strange
Building a global urban university in Singapore5
Stephen Cairns
The ETH Zürich Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) operates in an unusual institutional framework. We are here at the invitation of the Singaporean government: FCL was established in 2010 by ETH Zürich and Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF) as part of the CREATE campus, which brings together a range of overseas universities – M.I.T., Berkeley, and Cambridge – to work with Singapore-based institutions on once-renewable five-year research contracts. In practice, we are
The urban university at work: Tackling urban ageing in Singapore5
Hwee Pink Tan
There is a blurry line between the national agenda and the urban agenda in Singapore. This not only makes the city-state quite unique, but is reflected in the origins and work of the iCity Lab at Singapore Management University (SMU). The iCity Lab came about because Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – a global IT consulting and services company – wanted to partner with SMU to leverage our strengths in integrating computing, management, and social science. Working with us to build
Reloading the urban university from Singapore
Jean-Paul D. Addie and Michele Acuto
The preceding viewpoints illustrate the challenges and opportunities opened by university urbanism in Singapore. There are certainly several commonalities with the internal restructuring, drive for societal ‘impact’, and globally-competitive orientations being pursued by universities in the Global North. As with many North American and European universities, establishing policies and mechanisms promoting interdisciplinary research are increasingly central
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