The Worldwide Universities Network at UW-Madison

The Global Public University Series

WUN is leading the way in exploring the role of universities in the 21st Century. The latest initiative, a unique discussion series entitled, The Global Public University, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, draws together some of the foremost thinkers in North America on this issue.

This series is co-sponsored by UW–Madison Division of International Studies, WISCAPE, and the Worldwide Universities Network. Individual events co-sponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research, and Global Legal Studies. The aim of the series is to promote discussion about the trends, challenges, and opportunities that impact public universities throughout the world and how these institutions can learn from and work with one another, and their communities.

• October 2007: Stephen Toope, President, University of British Columbia and David Ward, President, American Council on Education and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A webcast of the forum can be viewed here.

• March 2008: William Brustein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Susan Jeffords (University of Washington), two experts on the internationalization of higher education (pictured above), held a candid discussion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about how communities and regions benefit from the global efforts of their public universities. Topics in this two hour-long event included knowledge hubs and economic development, strategic university-community partnerships, and institutional cooperation, among others. A webcast of the forum can be viewed here.

• April 2008: Richard Longworth (Senior writer, Chicago Tribune) and Randall Dunham (Chairperson, Department of Management & Human Resources and Faculty Director, Center for International Business Education & Research Wisconsin School of Business) discuss the future of the Midwest in our increasingly interconnected world – and the role of global public universities and regional collaborations in furthering our standing. A webcast of the forum can be viewed here.

Noel Radomski and Joan Raducha at a Global Public University Series event.