#  Speaking at the book launch - The promise of Higher Education, session 1 Coding the Values in a Changing Higher Education Landscape 

 





October 19, 2021

 

 

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 ➨ Session I Book Launch - Coding the Values in a Changing Higher Education  
Landscape  
  
Date: Tuesday 19th October | Time: 14:30 – 16:00 (CEST)  
  
The focus of this session is to revisit the values fostered by the IAU and  
critically reflect on what they might mean in the 21st century, how higher  
education features as a common good, and whether it really fosters progress,  
fairness, diversity and inclusion. How do the values and the mission of the  
university fare in the face of current challenges, and how can universities  
safeguard their integrity over time while imparting change? In short, the  
discussion will centre around how universities react, adapt and actively  
shape values-based transformation for better and more sustainable societies.  
  
 Speakers:  
  
\* &lt;<https://www.lse.ac.uk/Cities/staff-profiles/Jo-Beall>&gt; Jo Beall,  
Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow, London School of  
Economics and Political Science, London, UK  
  
\* &lt;<https://www.eaie.org/community/biography/awards/sjur-bergan.html>&gt; Sjur  
Bergan, Head of Education Department, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France  
  
\* &lt;<https://people.ucd.ie/andrew.deeks>&gt; Andrew J. Deeks, President,  
University College Dublin, Ireland  
  
\* &lt;[https://scholar.harvard.edu/manja\_klemencic/home](/home)&gt; Manja Klemenčič,  
Lecturer on Sociology and General Education, Harvard University, Cambridge,  
MA, USA  
  
\*  
&lt;[https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/HETL-2021/Keynote-speakers/  
Prof-Mandla-Makhanya](https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/HETL-2021/Keynote-speakers/Prof-Mandla-Makhanya)&gt; Mandla S. Makhanya, former Vice Chancellor, University  
of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa  
  
\* &lt;<https://sauliusspurga.lt/>&gt; Saulius Spurga, Chancellor, Mykolas Romeris  
University, Vilnius, Lithuania  
  
  
\* Chair: Hilligje van’t Land, IAU Secretary General

 Hilligje van’t Land, Andreas Corcoran, and Diana-Camelia Iancu (eds.) “The Promise of Higher Education – Essays in Honour of 70 Years of IAU”,** (Springer, 2021). You can download a free copy through open access here: [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-67245-4](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67245-4)



 

 

 



 

 

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