Sustaining the Future of Higher Education

Bruno Broucker, PhD, is guest professor at the KU Leuven and higher education policy advisor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is member of the executive committee of EAIR and Series Editor of the book Series "Higher Education. Linking Research, Policy and Practice."Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education at Ulster University, United Kingdom. She is Secretary of EAIR, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and an honorary member of the British Association for Comparative and International Education. Her work focuses on neo-liberalism in higher education, gender, mergers and linkages. Göran Melin, PhD, is director at Technopolis Group in Sweden. He has conducted numerous studies or evaluations targeting issues such as organisation of higher education institutions, alliances and mergers between higher education institutions, funding mechanisms, academic careers and cooperation with the surrounding society.Clare Milsom is academic registrar at the Liverpool John Moore University. She is a National Teaching Fellow and is involved in the QAA review of the Higher Education credit framework for England. Clare has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is known for her work on the evaluation of survey qualitative data.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Sustainability of Higher Education in Uncertain TimesBruno Broucker, Rosalind Pritchard, Göran Melin and Clare Milsom1 Sustaining the European Higher Education Area: Unravelling the Internal and External Views on Unifying an International RegionBruno Broucker and Kurt De Wit2 Striving for Research Excellence by Understanding Institutional Rationalities within the Bachelor Programme in Automotive Engineering at HAN University of Applied SciencesLeo Buning, Peter Schuur and Frans de Vijlder3 When Excellence Meets Relevance: Challenges and Tensions Facing Higher Education InstitutionsRómulo Pinheiro and Iyad Abualrub4 Student Driven Innovations: A Promised Road to Paideia?Odd Rune Stalheim5 Experiences of Academic Leadership in Ireland 2008–2014Anne Gannon6 Using Innovative Observation to Improve Teaching and Learning: A Collaboration between Students and Academic Staff in Higher EducationMatt O’Leary, Vanessa Cui, Ilana Pressick, Stephanie Reynolds, Lee Roberts, Nathalie Turville and Nick White7 Using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Building Youth Consciousness on Democracy in Everyday Life (DIEL) in IndiaWafa Singh8 Linkages between Academic Culture and Management in Polish Higher EducationAleksandra Lis and Radosław Rybkowski9 Exploring the Impact of Student Mobility and Extracurricular Engagement on Academic Performance and Graduate OutcomesAvril Margaret Brandon, Caroline Hetherington and Bairbre Redmond10 Can the New COVID-19 Normal Help to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4?Martina Gaisch and Victoria Rammer11 The Roles of Higher Education Managers in Germany: First Results of an Online SurveyRené Krempkow and Ester Höhle12 The Incomplete PDCA Cycle in the Research, Development and Innovation Activities at a Finnish UASLotta Linko, Mervi Friman and Anne Laakso13 Organisational Change in Student Affairs: A Closer LookCynthia Cogswell and Jason Pina