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The chronicle of a ten-year partnership between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry that shows cross-border collaboration in higher education in action

Table of Contents

Part I: Framing--Establishing the Partnership and a Vision for "The University in the East"
Chapter 1: The Fourth University
Chapter 2: Beyond "02139"--MIT and the World
Chapter 3: Arriving to a Conceptual Design
Part II: Founding--Recruiting and Socializing the SUTD Pioneers
Chapter 4: The SUTD Pioneers
Chapter 5: Getting to "11:1"--Building a Faculty and Research Agenda
Chapter 6: Finding the Risk Takers--Campus Building and the "Pioneer Batch"
Part III: Formation--Realizing and Localizing the SUTD Vision
Chapter 7: Fighting the Paper Chase--Developing SUTD's Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Academic Culture
Chapter 8: "Stay Up 'Til Dawn"--Creating the SUTDent Cuture
Chapter 9: "Its Campus Will Be in Changi"--Building and Managing a Cross-Border University
Part IV: Fracture--Establishing SUTD's Identity Independent of MIT
Chapter 10: SUTD on Its Own--Ending the Educational Collaboration with MIT
Chapter 11: Building a Cross-Border University--Implications for Scholarship and Practice

About the Author

Dara Fisher is Associate Dean at Hult International Business School, Boston Campus.

Reviews

"Fisher’s book chronicles a bold experiment in which MIT partnered with the Singapore Ministry of Education to establish a new university. It offers valuable lessons about the prospects and perils of crossborder collaborations." 
– Jason Tan, Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum & Leadership at the National Institute of Education, Singapore 

"A rich, informative account of one of MIT’s transnational (ad)ventures, Education Crossing Borders offers up a firstrate case study of higher education partnerships. While shedding light on key plans and policies, the author raises a number of complicating factors — historical, political, cultural, social, institutional, academic, and personal — germane to the benefits and risks, opportunities and pitfalls, obstacles and achievements, of MIT’s bold global outreach." 
– Philip Alexander, author of A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT