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    Education Crossing Borders

    How Singapore and MIT Created a New University

    Author Dara R. Fisher
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    The MIT Press
    6"W x 9"H
    On sale Aug 11, 2020 | 272 Pages | 9780262358682
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    The chronicle of a ten-year partnership between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry that shows cross-border collaboration in higher education in action.

    In this book, Dara Fisher chronicles the decade-long collaboration between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry to establish the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Fisher shows how what began as an effort by MIT to export its vision and practices to Singapore became an exercise in adaptation by actors on the ground. As cross-border higher education partnerships become more widespread, Fisher's account of one such collaboration in theory and practice is especially timely.
    Dara Fisher is an expert on cross-border higher education, with experience in higher education administration and public policy.
    Dara R. Fisher View titles by Dara R. Fisher
    Part I: Framing--Establishing the Partnership and a Vision for "The University in the East"
    Chapter 1: The Fourth University
    Chapter 2: Beyond "02139"--MIT and the World
    Chapter 3: Arriving to a Conceptual Design
    Part II: Founding--Recruiting and Socializing the SUTD Pioneers
    Chapter 4: The SUTD Pioneers
    Chapter 5: Getting to "11:1"--Building a Faculty and Research Agenda
    Chapter 6: Finding the Risk Takers--Campus Building and the "Pioneer Batch"
    Part III: Formation--Realizing and Localizing the SUTD Vision
    Chapter 7: Fighting the Paper Chase--Developing SUTD's Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Academic Culture
    Chapter 8: "Stay Up 'Til Dawn"--Creating the SUTDent Cuture
    Chapter 9: "Its Campus Will Be in Changi"--Building and Managing a Cross-Border University
    Part IV: Fracture--Establishing SUTD's Identity Independent of MIT
    Chapter 10: SUTD on Its Own--Ending the Educational Collaboration with MIT
    Chapter 11: Building a Cross-Border University--Implications for Scholarship and Practice
    "Fisher’s book chronicles a bold experiment in which MIT partnered with the Singapore Ministry of Education to establish a new university. It offers valuable lessons about the prospects and perils of crossborder collaborations." 
    – Jason Tan, Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum & Leadership at the National Institute of Education, Singapore 

    "A rich, informative account of one of MIT’s transnational (ad)ventures, Education Crossing Borders offers up a firstrate case study of higher education partnerships. While shedding light on key plans and policies, the author raises a number of complicating factors — historical, political, cultural, social, institutional, academic, and personal — germane to the benefits and risks, opportunities and pitfalls, obstacles and achievements, of MIT’s bold global outreach." 
    – Philip Alexander, author of A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT

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    The chronicle of a ten-year partnership between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry that shows cross-border collaboration in higher education in action.

    In this book, Dara Fisher chronicles the decade-long collaboration between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry to establish the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Fisher shows how what began as an effort by MIT to export its vision and practices to Singapore became an exercise in adaptation by actors on the ground. As cross-border higher education partnerships become more widespread, Fisher's account of one such collaboration in theory and practice is especially timely.

    Author

    Dara Fisher is an expert on cross-border higher education, with experience in higher education administration and public policy.
    Dara R. Fisher View titles by Dara R. Fisher

    Table of Contents

    Part I: Framing--Establishing the Partnership and a Vision for "The University in the East"
    Chapter 1: The Fourth University
    Chapter 2: Beyond "02139"--MIT and the World
    Chapter 3: Arriving to a Conceptual Design
    Part II: Founding--Recruiting and Socializing the SUTD Pioneers
    Chapter 4: The SUTD Pioneers
    Chapter 5: Getting to "11:1"--Building a Faculty and Research Agenda
    Chapter 6: Finding the Risk Takers--Campus Building and the "Pioneer Batch"
    Part III: Formation--Realizing and Localizing the SUTD Vision
    Chapter 7: Fighting the Paper Chase--Developing SUTD's Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Academic Culture
    Chapter 8: "Stay Up 'Til Dawn"--Creating the SUTDent Cuture
    Chapter 9: "Its Campus Will Be in Changi"--Building and Managing a Cross-Border University
    Part IV: Fracture--Establishing SUTD's Identity Independent of MIT
    Chapter 10: SUTD on Its Own--Ending the Educational Collaboration with MIT
    Chapter 11: Building a Cross-Border University--Implications for Scholarship and Practice

    Praise

    "Fisher’s book chronicles a bold experiment in which MIT partnered with the Singapore Ministry of Education to establish a new university. It offers valuable lessons about the prospects and perils of crossborder collaborations." 
    – Jason Tan, Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum & Leadership at the National Institute of Education, Singapore 

    "A rich, informative account of one of MIT’s transnational (ad)ventures, Education Crossing Borders offers up a firstrate case study of higher education partnerships. While shedding light on key plans and policies, the author raises a number of complicating factors — historical, political, cultural, social, institutional, academic, and personal — germane to the benefits and risks, opportunities and pitfalls, obstacles and achievements, of MIT’s bold global outreach." 
    – Philip Alexander, author of A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT

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