It has become a banality to affirm that the world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace and that this aflects the environment of all social, economic and political activities. Although perhaps less visibly, this evolution concerns also education, and in particular, the higher education sector and its institutions (Weber, …

The participants in the first Glion Colloquium agreeed that the governance of universities makes it in general too difficult for them to make the important decisions that they should make if they are to adapt to the changing environment. In other words, the decisionmakinq system is not responsive enough and …