scholarly journals Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University

Author(s):  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen ◽  
Carl Mika ◽  
Rikke Toft Nørgård

AbstractBeyond knowledge, critical thinking, new ideas, rigorous science and scholarly development, this chapter argues for the university as a space of life. Through the complexities and incommensurabilities of academic life, and drawing on Julia Kristeva’s notion of revolt, Emmanuel Levinas’ notion of Otherness, and Novalis’ concept of Romantisierung, it makes a philosophical argument for recognizing what might appear as uncomfortable transgressions of the marketable, measurable characteristics of World Class Universities. In various ways, the chapter asks where there is space, in the World Class University, for elements which may not overtly align with the neoliberal clamour for international recognition and esteem. In elevating everyday life in the university, the chapter blurs boundaries of the celebrated, strived for rankings with the spaces of life that are dark and heterotopic, messily entangled with histories, polyphonic human and more than human voice, beings and energies, within the university. Revolt provokes a re-turn to re-question the ethics and boundaries of treatments of ‘world’ and ‘class’ in conceptions of the World Class University. Here, ‘World Class University’ is not necessarily a globally streamlined and internationally bench-marked institution, flexing its socio-economic muscles in the face of the world. Instead, it is an institution that speaks for others who have been made silent and deprived of their own critical voice. It speaks for the suppressed and marginalized, and it speaks for the ones who are no longer with us, or who have not yet arrived. It speaks for the people and the times yet to come.

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Myers

I and II Esdras is Volume 42 in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, each by a preeminent scholar. Jacob M. Myers is Professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg and the author of three earlier volumes in the series: I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra, Nehemiah. The present work constitutes the first English commentary on I Esdras in sixty years and the first on II Esdras in forty. Written about 10 BCE, I Esdras is a history ranging from the pious reign of Josiah to the religious reforms of Ezra. For this period Josephus follows I Esdras in his Antiquities of the Jews. An apocalyptic work, written 250 years later, II Esdras seeks to offer strength, courage, and hope to those whose faith was severely shaken in the gloom and despondency that followed upon the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Its chief purpose was to inspire trust in God and the ultimate triumph of righteousness, if not in this world, then in the world to come. “Tracts for the times such as II Esdras,” writes Dr. Myers in his preface, “have a message for us who in a revolutionary age are obsessed with the impatience reflected by Ezra; it was not that he lacked faith in God but that he, like Job, questioned his ways and the delay, perhaps seeming inactivity, in the face of what appeared to the prophet to be terrible urgencies. The questions posed are still asked in the context of our age.” Eight photographs of ancient Near Eastern sculpture and coins help the reader visualize both the events recounted in I Esdras and the apocalyptic imagery in II Esdras. Each book has its own introduction and bibliography.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (37) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Pei Wen Chong ◽  
Siti Zakiah Melatu Samsi ◽  
Mohd Nazri Mohd Noor

The university website is important as a window for potential students. Its quality is directly associated with the image and reputation of the university, reflecting the level of the university. Therefore, it is vital that a university is able to establish a website that has a high level of usability, functionality, and creativity which can attract and retain the users. In order to have a rational understanding and learning from the experienced university websites, this study has selected the top 20 universities around the world where important elements from their websites are being studied and evaluated thoroughly. The elements include picture resolution, typography, layout, web structure and colour, type of information and content as well as the privacy and trust policy. The study provides important provision on how the world-class universities designed their websites which would potentially yield refinements to the current website of other universities around the globe.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Pujiono Pujiono ◽  
Made Dudy Satyawan

AbstractThis study sought to strip the university in the era of globalization, and the application of good governance. Globalization has changed the university (colleges) that exist in the world vying to become world class University. Most universities (colleges) in Indonesia have transformed itself from the university for teaching to be research university. Several models of approaches can be adopted to implement good governance in the face of global challenges that can be done through a model or framework of bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic. Besides the university (college) should be able to guarantee transparency, accountability, rensponsive, reponsibility, independency, and fairness as well as other additional principle should be in accordance with the vision and mission of the university.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Sunardi ◽  
Chindera Setia Dewi Insani ◽  
Eris Martini ◽  
Evin Davinci Sagala ◽  
Maman Surahman ◽  
...  

Banyak dari masyarakat dan yayasan islam nurul amal yang belum memahami secara utuh tentang strategi dan kemandirian dalam berwirausaha. Perkembangan zaman membuat dunia usaha semakin berkembang dan membuat pelaku usaha harus lebih siap dalam persaingan dan kompetisi dan bisnis. Inovasi-inovasi bisnis menjadi faktor yang berpengaruh terdapap kemandirian dan keberlansungan dari suatu usaha, hal ini sangat terlihat dan terbuka dimasa saat ini yaitu masa dimana ekonomi dan dunia usahan turun akibat pandemi, hal ini membuat pelaku usaha harus berpikir kembali dan mengembangkan diri serta tenang menjadi sangat diperlukan dalam menghadapi pandemi COVID-19. Sekarang waktu yang tepat untuk menguji staregi yang sudah di bangun untuk memulai usaha dan akan terlihat kemandirian dari usaha tersebut. Tujuan dari pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana dari sisi bidang kewirausahaan di sektor pendidikan dan yayasan sebagai penopang untuk meneruskan kegiatan yang sebelumnya belum dilakukan atau sudah dilakukan namun belum maksimal ke arah yang lebih baik lagi untuk menunjang pertumbuhan dan perkembangan perekonomian di lingkungan yayasan maupun masyarakat sekitar. Hasil yang diperoleh dari pertemuan yang dilakukan dalam pengabdian kepada masyarakat bagaimana bidang kewirausahaan dalam dunia pendidikan dan ilmu dan pengalaman untuk dapat membuat suatu usaha yang maksimal dengan sistem manajemen bisnis yang baim dab tepat dan membentuk calon pelaku usaha yang memiliki mental dan sikap yang baik untuk melakukan atau memulai suatu usaha agar dapat berjalan dengan baik dan mampu menopang perekonomian mikro yang ada di lingkungan sekitar yayasan islam nurul amal.Kata Kunci: Strategi, Kemandirian, Kewirausahaan, Yayasan Islam Nurul AmalMany of the people and Islamic foundations of Nurul Amal do not fully understand the strategy and independence in entrepreneurship. The times have made the business world more developed and made business actors have to be better prepared in competition and business. Business innovations are factors that influence the independence and sustainability of a business, this is very visible and open at this time, namely the time when the economy and the business world are down due to the pandemic, this makes business actors have to think again and develop themselves and calm down to be indispensable in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now is the right time to test the strategies that have been built to start a business and you will see independence from the business. The purpose of this community service is to find out how from the aspect of entrepreneurship in the education sector and foundations as a support to continue activities that have not been carried out previously or have been carried out but have not been maximized in a better direction to support economic growth and development within the foundation and community. local communities. The results obtained from meetings held in community service are how the field of entrepreneurship in the world of education and knowledge and experience can make a maximum business with a good and appropriate business management system and form prospective business actors who have the mental and good attitude to do business. or starting a business so that it can run well and be able to support the micro-economy in the environment around the Nurul Amal Islamic FoundationKeywords: Strategy, Independence, Entrepreneurship, Islamic Foundation Nurul Amal


2020 ◽  
pp. 030981682098238
Author(s):  
Miloš Šumonja

The news is old – neoliberalism is dead for good, but this time, even Financial Times knows it. Obituaries claim that it had died from the coronavirus, as the state, not the markets, have had to save both the people and the economy. The argument of the article is that these academic and media interpretations of ‘emergency Keynesianism’ misidentify neoliberalism with its anti-statist rhetoric. For neoliberalism is, and has always been, about ‘the free market and the strong state’. In fact, rather than waning in the face of the coronavirus crisis, neoliberal states around the world are using the ongoing ‘war against the virus’ to strengthen their right-hand grip on the conditions of the working classes.


Author(s):  
Rui Zhao ◽  
Wan-Bing Shi

The graduate attributes of the University of Sydney innovatively include the enabling conceptions and the translation conceptions of attributes and ensure that they are specifically oriented, reasonably structured and comprehensively designed. These scientifically constructed graduate attributes of the University of Sydney prove strong efficiency by the university taking up a high position in QS Graduate Employability Rankings in recent years. Chinese top-level universities, in the process of building world-class universities, also face the task of revising the graduate attributes and substantially enhancing the quality of talents cultivation, and can, therefore, learn the successful experience to revise their own graduate attributes on the basis of universities’ history, vision and specialty, on the premise of a sound cognition of the connotation, levels, and relationship of graduate attributes, and by means of System Theory, Phenomenography and comparative study.


Horizons ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-305
Author(s):  
Lieven Boeve

ABSTRACTThe Church has the duty in every age of examining the signs of the times and interpreting them in the light of the gospel, so that it can offer in a manner appropriate to each generation replies to the continual human questionings on the meaning of this life and the life to come and on how they are related. There is a need, then, to be aware of, and to understand, the world in which we live, together with its expectations, its desires and its frequently dramatic character (Gaudium et spes 4).


Author(s):  
Kai Erikson

This chapter tells the story of peasants from rural Poland who entered a migrant stream around the turn of the twentieth century that carried them, along with tens of millions of others, across a number of clearly marked national borderlines as well as a number of unmarked cultural ones. The peasants were a couple named Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak, and the words spoken by them as well as the events recalled here are based on the hundreds of letters and diaries gathered in the 1910s by two sociologists from the University of Chicago, W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki. The chapter first describes the world into which Piotr and Kasia were born, focusing on family, village, and land. It then considers their journey, together with millions of other immigrants, and how they changed both the face of Europe and the face of the United States.


Author(s):  
Stephen Stephen ◽  
Franky Liauw

At present the activity of buying and selling/trading has been developing rapidly for decades. The growth of new malls spread throughout Jakarta. Making Jakarta the city with the largest and most shopping center in the world, with more than 173 malls. Coupled with the help of technology, an online shop platform has emerged that makes it easy for visitors to shop without having to come to the store. With the help of electronic media tools such as tablets or Smartphones. Nowadays, malls are not only a place to shop but also a place for recreation, socializing, or just for a walk alone. The progress of technology and human culture is changing. It's one of the factors that influence the impact of the decline in visitors at the old shopping center, every year such as a Pasar Baru shopping center. Re-Imagine Pasar Baru is a project that aims as a motor/propeller for Pasar Baru Community. Inviting the local people and Shop Owners to take part in making a change. Through a new program that strengthens unity and diversity to bring the conciseness cooperation (Gotong-royong) attitude that has been lost with the development of the times. Creating a place where people can socialize and interact, get closer, get to know each other, and also as a means of recreation for residents, visitors, shop owners, and also this project hopes to bring the Pasar Baru shopping area to life. Through the Urban Acupuncture method by analyzing the needs, potentials, deficiencies, demographics, ecology, etc. that characterize the Pasar Baru area. Where it can present a new program, and produce small-scale changes, but social catalytic intervention into the urban spatial structure. In physical and social-culture in Pasar Baru. Keywords: Community; Gotong Royong; Pasar Baru; Recreation; Urban Acupuncture  AbstrakSaat ini aktivitas Jual-beli/perdagangan sudah berkembang pesat selama beberapa dekade. Tumbuhnya mall-mall baru tersebar di seluruh Jakarta. Menjadikan Jakarta sebagai kota dengan pusat perbelanjaan terbanyak dan terbesar di dunia, dengan lebih dari 173 mall. Ditambah dengan bantuan teknologi, platform online shop memudahkan pengunjung untuk berbelanja tanpa perlu datang ke toko. Dengan bantuan alat media elektronik seperti tablet atau Smartphones. Saat ini, mall bukan hanya menjadi tempat untuk berbelanja melainkan menjadi tempat rekreasi, bersosialisasi, atau hanya sekedar untuk jalan-jalan semata. Kemajuan teknologi serta budaya manusia yang berubah, merupakan salah satu faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap dampak penurunan pengunjung di pusat perbelanjaan lama setiap tahunnya, seperti pusat perbelanjaan Pasar Baru. Re-Imagine Pasar Baru Merupakan proyek yang bertujuan sebagai motor / pengerak daerah Pasar Baru. Mengajak masyarakat dan para pedagang untuk ikut andil dalam melakukan suatu perubahan. Lewat program yang mempererat kesatuan dan persatuan guna memunculkan sikap gotong royong yang sudah hilang seiring berkembangnya zaman. Menciptakan tempat dimana warga dapat bersosialisasi dan berinteraksi, mendekatkan, saling mengenal satu sama lain dan juga sebagai sarana rekreasi warga lokal, dan proyek ini berharap dapat menghidupkan kawasan perbelanjaan Pasar Baru. Lewat metode Urban Acupunture yaitu dengan menganalisis kebutuhan, potensi, kekurangan, demografi, ekologi yang menjadi ciri khas dari kawasan Pasar Baru. Dimana dapat menghadirkan suatu program baru, dan menghasilkan perubahan skala kecil, tetapi intervensi katalitik sosial ke dalam tatanan ruang kota. Bukan hanya sekedar bentuk fisik, tetapi juga berdampak pada sosial dan budaya Kawasan Pasar Baru sendiri. 


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