Global Higher Education During and Beyond COVID-19

C. Raj Kumar is the Founding Vice-Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University and the Director of the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building. Professor Kumar is a Rhodes Scholar and an accomplished Legal Scholar. He works in the fields of human rights and development, comparative constitutional law, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, legal education and higher education. He has seven books and over hundred and fifty publications to his credit and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, UK and the USA.Mousumi Mukherjee is Associate Professor and the Deputy Director at the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University. She is also the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Global Education. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the STAR scholars network with twenty years of experience in the higher education sector in India, the USA, Saudi Arabia and Australia. She is a Research Standing Committee Member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. She has authored several internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field of comparative and international education. She has served as a reviewer, guest editor and associate editor of internationally peer-reviewed journals.Tatiana Belousova is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA). In the year 2019, She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Kerala, Department of Political Science. Her doctoral thesis titled ‘State, Public Policy and Internationalization of Higher Education in Kerala’ was sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Prior to this, Tatiana completed her postgraduate studies at St. Petersburg State University, Department of World Economy. Dr. Belousova participated in several research and capacity building programmes, including the ones in New Delhi, Hamburg and Melbourne. Tatiana has been a regular contributor to the University World News and The Hindu.Nisha Nair is Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Dean at the Office of Academic Affairs, at Jindal Global Law School. She is Assistant Director at the Centre for Law and Humanities and is Founding Faculty Coordinator for the Gender Studies Group. She is also Fellow at International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU). Her doctoral research focussed on educational policy, quality and employability in the context of Indian Higher Education. She has authored and edited books, chapters and journal articles on gender, educational technology, policy, quality and employability.

• Challenges and possibilities for higher education in India during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.- Transforming the Asian University in Troubled Times.- Agility and Transformation:The University in the Age of the COVID 19 Pandemic.- What Covid-19 Taught Us About the Opportunities and Obligation of Remote Learning.- Class Dismissed: Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Remote Learning, Equity, and Public Assistance in Higher Education in the United States.- Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion in the Wake of COVID-19.- Students’ Experiences with Online Teaching & Learning: Perspectives from India.- Why Doctoral Education is a Place to be Committed to Social Justice: From Argument to Practice.- Navigating the Labyrinth during the Pandemic: Experiences of women in Higher Education.- Research & University Social Responsibility: During and Beyond COVID-19.

“It is a valuable collection, as the country and individual experiences that are described here will remain historical lessons for future generations. The present generation will learn valuable but hard lessons from this experience, and from which future societies will learn even more. Hence, discussions about the present crisis caused by the pandemic are very relevant. This book can be seen as an important addition to the limited but growing literature on the subject.” (Jandhyala B G Tilak, The Developing Economies, March 10, 2023)