International Higher Education for the Future: Major Crises and Post-Pandemic Challenges

In ShortWe need to use the inherent power, and moral force, of academe for addressing and enacting solutions to the major challenges of our times, including growing inequalities, climate change, and the emerging Cold War, in all three missions of higher education: education, research and service to society. We offer several recommendations for international higher education:Make higher education and its internationalization more carbon-neutral by reducing physical mobility of students, academics, and administrators and using more virtual collaborative modelsStimulate diversification and inclusiveness in academic mobilityPlace more emphasis on inter­nationalization of the curriculum at homeSee digitalization not as replacement, but as an integrative dimension of education and researchStrive for academic collaboration on equal terms; andBase global academic engagement on common academic values of inclusion, autonomy, and academic freedom.