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X-WR-CALNAME:Book Launch - Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Gl
 obal Perspective
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n\n- Maria Yudkevich\, Research Fellow\, CIHE\n\n- Ph
 il Altbach\, Professor Emeritus & Founding Director\, CIHE\n\n- Jamil Salm
 i\, Research Fellow\,  CIHE\n\n \n\nAcademic excellence initiatives (AEIs)
 —special government-sponsored programs to improve research universities
 —have provided billions of dollars to top universities and represent per
 haps the most significant effort in the past half-century to jump-start ac
 ademic research. Academic Star Wars analyzes AEIs in nine European and Asi
 an countries\, including China\, Japan\, Malaysia\, South Korea\, Taiwan\,
  Denmark\, France\, Germany\, and Russia\, offering insights into the succ
 esses and problems of these initiatives\, as well as into the broader syst
 em of higher education itself. \n\nIn this webinar\, the three editors wil
 l share some of the main findings of the book and engage participants in a
  discussion of some of the implications.\n\n \n\nTo register\, please foll
 ow the link: https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuquqD8pHtwQR561z7
 tifoB-sgmC2PPI#/registration
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global 
 Perspective
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 excellence_initiatives_in_global_perspective
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