ABSTRACT
How full of possibilities higher education is today, and yet how difficult it can be for the sector to engage powerfully with the modern world. News of local and international changes and challenges — social, cultural, technological, ecological, professional, political, and economic — confronts us hour by hour. In any given moment, we see another news item, a picture, a tweet, the publication of yet another article; they appear unannounced, fighting for our attention. We hear the voices of the economically privileged cut across one another, polyphonic and unresolved, while other voices are silenced. Arguments about what is ‘fake’ and what is ‘true’ swarm through the airwaves. In the meantime, communities worldwide are in need, sometimes in desperate need, of solutions to their challenges.
