How do we build an intentional university?

This opinion piece focuses on the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco with some comparisons to other intentional universities, primarily on the west coast of Canada. The article was published by University Affairs on April 24th, 2018 and is freely available on the internet at: https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/build-intentional-university/
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LINGUA FRANCA?: FRANCOPHONE SCHOLARSHIP ON THE ASIA-PACIFIC

This post is inspired by my participation in the 2015 Congrès Asie-Pacifique, held in Paris this past September. Here is an excerpt with the full text available here: While English is often thought of as the international academic lingua franca, there is significant scholarship on Asia in other languages, including French. French-language scholarship on the
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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

Photo above courtesy of GlobalHigherEd. Kris Olds, editor of GlobalHigherEd, kindly published this guest-blog on October 4th, 2015. It was also simultaneously published by Inside Higher Ed in GlobalHigherEd’s section. The full text is available here. Below is the opening paragraph. Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly
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Living with Risk by Tamaki Endo

Pacific Affairs invited me to review a new book entitled Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor by Tamaki Endo, a Japanese scholar. It’s a great read for those with an interest in urbanization and poverty alleviation. What’s also nice is that it cites a lot of Japanese-language scholarship on these issues, which might not normally
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