Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Innovation, Adaptation, Preservation

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannerl O. Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Status ◽  
Disruptive Change ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

Disruptive change is never easy for those who have helped construct the status quo. By definition, it undermines much that we take for granted and rely on, much that has evolved over time. It sometimes destroys things that are worth treasuring. This is why we fear it. But disruptive change also provides an opportunity for restructuring that can actually improve our institutions. Our task should be to adjust as nimbly as we can, taking advantage of new opportunities while we protect those aspects of traditional higher education that are of the greatest importance to our mission.

scholarly journals 21st-century capitalism: structural challenges for universal health care

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Sell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
First Century ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
The Status ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Universal Health

AbstractThe structural perspective outlined here sheds light on some of the fundamental challenges involved in achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) in this twenty-first-century era of trade and financialized capitalism. This commentary explores connections between the structure of twenty-first-century capitalism and challenges to achieving UHC, discussing three features of today’s capitalism: financialized capitalism; trade, intangibles and global value chains; and inequality (as exacerbated by the first two features). The final section discusses the various opportunities for reform to facilitate UHC—from tinkering with the status quo, to deeper regulatory reform and fundamental structural change.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Nelly Furman
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
The Status ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

Since 1875, Georges Bizet’s Carmen has held the lead as the world’s most performed opera and through its multifaceted cultural renditions, the story of Carmen can be said to have attained the status of a myth. Myths, like legends, are stories that speak to us over time and place about personal, social and cultural issues. In each of its versions, whether in a myriad of lyric productions, numerous ballets, or a multitude of films, the story of Carmen reflects shifting social interests and values. From enacting codes of love and differing expressions of desire to exposing the intersection of law and order, or celebrating ethnicity, Georges Bizet’s Carmen is a story as timely at the dawn of the twenty-first century as it was in the latter part of the nineteenth.

Staging Tagore Beyond the Spectres of Authority: Suman Mukhopadhyay's Falguni: Suchana (2001)

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-296
Author(s):  
RAJDEEP KONAR
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
First Century ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Cultural Icon ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Status ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article intends to critique the spectres of authority which haunt theatrical interpretations of Rabindranath Tagore's (1861–1941) plays. As Tagore is a cultural icon, since even before his demise his plays have been made sites for exercising cultural and institutional authority. A consequent uneasy anticipation of denunciation or censorship has essentially deterred theatre directors from creatively interpreting and staging his plays. In terms of discourse also, there has been a spiral of silence regarding the presence of such authority. It is only since the beginning of the twenty-first century, after the termination of the copyright to Tagore's works, that the situation has lightened considerably. This article deals with the above phenomenon in two segments. While the second segment provides a close analysis of one of the first productions to radically subvert the status quo regarding the creative staging of Tagore's plays, the first provides a contextual, historical build-up to that moment. The article argues that in dramatic theatre authority is often validated on the basis of an ‘archival logic’ of thinking which requires systematic dismantling.

Taiwan’s international visibility in the twenty-first century: A suggestive note

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Chul Cho ◽  
Mun Suk Ahn
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
First Century ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
International Visibility ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Standing ◽  
Twenty First Century

This paper provides a critical check to the ongoing, dominant blue/green debate about Taiwan’s identity vis-à-vis China. The colour blue is associated with those who support closer ties with China and green with those who support Taiwanese independence. The state-centric debate over unification, independence, or the status quo in cross-strait relations is closely tied to Taiwan’s national aspirations to enhance its international standing in the twenty-first century, a standing which is arguably diplomatically under-recognized. Based on a critical discussion of the blue/green debate, this paper presents two pragmatic ways of augmenting Taiwan’s international visibility through global recognition without jeopardizing national security or regional stability in East Asia.

In or Out?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Alternative State ◽  
Empirical Measurement ◽  
The Status ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

This chapter introduces a benchmark theory of public opinion towards European integration. Rather than relying on generic labels like support or scepticism, the chapter suggests that public opinion towards the EU is both multidimensional and multilevel in nature. People’s attitudes towards Europe are essentially based on a comparison between the benefits of the status quo of membership and those associated with an alternative state, namely one’s country being outside the EU. This comparison is coined the ‘EU differential’. When comparing these benefits, people rely on both their evaluations of the outcomes (policy evaluations) and the system that produces them (regime evaluations). This chapter presents a fine-grained conceptualization of what it means to be an EU supporter or Eurosceptic; it also designs a careful empirical measurement strategy to capture variation, both cross-nationally and over time. The chapter cross-validates these measures against a variety of existing and newly developed data sources.

‘A Heap of Broken Images’? Reviving Austro-German Debates over Musical Meaning, 1900–36

2013 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Force And Motion ◽  
The Status ◽  
Musical Interpretation ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis article examines a range of writings on the status of musical interpretation in Austria and Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century, and argues their relevance to current debates. While the division outlined by recent research between popular-critical hermeneutics and analytical ‘energetics’ at this time remains important, hitherto neglected contemporary reflections by Paul Bekker and Kurt Westphal demonstrate that the success of energetics was not due to any straightforward intellectual victory. Rather, the images of force and motion promoted by 1920s analysis were carried by historical currents in the philosophy, educational theory and arts of the time, revealing a culturally situated source for twenty-first-century analysis's preoccupations with motion and embodiment. The cultural relativization of such images may serve as a retrospective counteraction to the analytical rationalizing processes that culminated specifically in Heinrich Schenker's later work, and more generally in the privileging of graphic and notational imagery over poetic paraphrase.

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