William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, discusses his book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, with Noah Pickus, chief academic officer of Minerva Project.
Academic Innovation for the Public Good is a series of conversations with authors about their books on higher education’s role in promoting democracy, social justice and equity. Stanford Digital Education and Trinity jointly organized the series in collaboration with Bentley University, Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke Learning Innovation, Georgetown University Center for Design in Learning and Scholarship, Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Davidson College, Johns Hopkins University, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton, Minerva, North Dakota State University Graduate School, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northwestern University Women's Center, University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation, University of Missouri Online, University of Notre Dame: ND Learning, and University of Pennsylvania Online Learning Initiative.
