From June 26 to June 28, the new Global University Summit, co-organized by the Institute for Global Higher Education (IGHE) at Duke Kunshan University and the Learning Innovation and Lifelong Education (LILE) at Duke University, was held in Washington, D.C., USA. Wang Huiyao, Chairman of the Center for Globalization (CCG), Miao Lu, Secretary-General of CCG, and university presidents and senior practitioners in the field of higher education from many countries gathered together to discuss how to create new, high-quality and transformative forms of undergraduate education, and share their experiences on how to innovate high-quality education programs on a global scale.
The education sector should be diverse, and there is a global need for more schools that allow actors and planners to explore, adapt and even redesign to drive the impact of education. Reducing the constraints on imagination and focusing on the process of innovative design can bring many valuable implications. Against this backdrop, the summit focused on the question "Why do we need a new type of global university?" There were a number of seminars on the topics of "High-quality Transformation Factors for a New Global University," "How to Create a New Global University," and "What New and Established Universities Can Learn from Each Other."
The conference was also attended by Kamal Ahmad, founder of Asian Women's University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, Edward Balleisen, associate provost for interdisciplinary studies and professor of history at Duke University, Gilda Barabino, president of the Niedam-Orin School of Engineering in Massachusetts, Julie Barker, director of the Provost's Office, Duke University, and Randy Bass, vice president and professor of strategic education programs at Georgetown University. Jamshed Bharucha, Founding Vice-Chancellor of Saisai University, Tamil Nadu, India, Goldie Blumenstyk, Senior Writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ivan Bofarull, Chief Innovation Officer, Essard Business School, Barcelona, Spain, Karin Fischer, Senior Writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Zach Fredman, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of History, Duke Kunshan University, Michael Fung, Executive Director, Institute for Future Education, Tectechnic de Monterrey, Mexico, Dan Futrell, Founder, Polymath University, Chicago, USA, Provost, Duke University Alec Gallimore, Yakut Gazi, Associate Provost for Learning Innovation and Digital Education, Duke University, Kara Godwin, Research Fellow, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chesnat Hill, Massachusetts, USA, Carl Gombrich, Dean of the Interdisciplinary University, London, UK, Maira Habimorad, CEO, São Paulo Institute for Technology and Leadership, Brazil, Director of the Office and Senior Director of Global Affairs, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan Tatheer Hamdani, Valerie Hausman, Associate Provost for Duke-Kunshan Programs and Strategy, Duke University, Pano Kanelos, Founding Chancellor, University of Austin, William Kirby, Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, Wendy Kuran, Vice Chancellor for Development and Alumni Liaison at Duke Kunshan University, Pericles Lewis, Dean of Yale College, Yale University, Yaolin Liu, President of Duke Kunshan University, Scott MacEachern, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Duke Kunshan University, Cheryl Matherly, Vice Chancellor/Associate Provost for International Affairs at Lehigh University, Richard Miller, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Ben Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Minerva Project in San Francisco, Babs Omotowa, Founding Chancellor of the University of Technology and Management, Nigeria, Andrew Park, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Communications, Duke University, Bill Parsons, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Duke Kunshan University, Bryan Penprase, Vice Chancellor for External Academic Relations and Grant Research at Soka University, Pey Kin-Leong, Vice Provost of Singapore University of Technology and Design, Noah Pickus, Vice Provost and Dean of Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, Wasif Rizvi, President of Habib University Karachi in Pakistan, Joanne Roberts, President of Yale-NUS College Singapore, Brian Rosenberg, Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Past President of Macalester College and Member of the Board of Trustees of the African Leadership University, Joe Salem, Librarian and Associate Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University, Mira Seo, Associate Provost and Interim Dean of Undergraduate Education at Fulbright University in Vietnam, Vanita Shastri, Founding Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Sonypat Ashoka University, India, Candis Smith, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Veda Sunassee, CEO, Africa Leadership University, Fernando Valenzuela, CEO of the Global Impact EdTech Consortium in Mexico, Sinem Vatanartiran, Chancellor of Atlantic Bay University, Meredith Woo, Senior Research Fellow at the Design Institute at Arizona State University, and Wu Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University Keping, Ying Xiong, Assistant Associate Provost for Learning Innovation and Assessment at Duke University.
CCG is the first Chinese social think tank to enter the world's top 100, the first Chinese think tank to obtain special consultative status with the United Nations, and is also the national talent theory research base of the Central Talent Work Coordination Group, the location of the International Talent Professional Committee of the Chinese Talent Research Association of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and has the qualification of postdoctoral research workstation awarded by the state. Over the years, CCG has continued to conduct leading research in the field of international education and talent-related research with an international research perspective. On August 2, 2023, CCG Chairman Wang Huiyao and Harvard University Professor William Kirby held an in-depth dialogue at the Harvard University Widener Library, exploring the path of improving China's global influence while sorting out the evolution of China's higher education systems in China, the United States and Europe. In August 2022, in the research report "Returnees to China", by Dr. Wang Huiyao, Director of CCG, and Dr. Miao Lu, Secretary General of CCG, CCG discussed how returnees can promote the reform of higher education by introducing new educational concepts, and contribute wisdom to the construction of a modern higher education system based on the data and statistics of 76 universities directly under the Ministry of Education.