The Rise of the Global University: 5 New Tensions

The Rise of the Global University: 5 New Tensions - By Simon Marginson, May 30, 2010 The Chronicle of HE

The "multiversity"—the university with multiple constituencies and demands that Clark Kerr, the former president of the University of California identified in the 1960s—has given way to the Global Research University, or GRU. The Global Research University is the multiversity with much more mobility, more cross-national research and learning, and more global systems and rankings.