Editors’ Pick—Book Review: Global Sustainability and the Responsibilities of Universities

Abstract

In May of 1998, a group of academic leaders from Europe and North America convened in Glion, Switzerland, to discuss the future of higher education. At issue were the challenges facing universities as they moved inexorably towards the 21st century in an increasingly globalized and networked world. Led by Professors Luc Weber (University of Geneva) and Werner Hirsch (University of California), the Glion Colloquium’s first publication of its conference proceedings, Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium (1998), was an attempt to “take stock of its [the university’s] present status, explore the challenges of the future and evaluate promising initiatives to meet these challenges.”