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Higher-education institutions around the world are engaged in multiple and diverse transnational collaborations. Commercial undertakings dedicated to international-student recruitment, the establishment of overseas campuses, and globally available electronic-course offerings capture the predominant share of media, scholarly, and campus attention. Although they are manifold, robust, vital, and costly, transnational research and development initiatives devoted to addressing contemporary societal challenges of sustainability, poverty alleviation, environmental protection, and conflict resolution are underexplored among those concerned with the interconnected future of universities. This volume aims to bring transnational research and sustainable-development collaborations out of the shadows and sharpen their focus for the higher-education community and beyond. The backdrop for this discussion is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-led Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) and its inspirational objective of promoting “education as a basis for a more sustainable human society” (Bourn and Morgan 2010, pp. 272–273).
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Ashcroft and Rayner’s Higher Education in Development: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) is focused domestically on the context and challenges facing higher-education institutions in Africa. This material, based largely on the authors’ reflections on multiple years of personal experience working “in higher education at the government level and within universities,” complements our transnational focus. We weave case insights from Higher Education in Development into our analysis. Although only five shallow pages (83–88) out of the book’s 272 pages of text are devoted to “collaboration and linkages,” Ashcroft and Rayner (p. 33) recognize that “there needs to be more research that looks at what sub-Saharan African universities gain from membership in international consortia and the factors that increase those benefits.”
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Koehn, P.H., Obamba, M.O. (2014). Introduction. In: The Transnationally Partnered University. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481757_1
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