Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Start-Up U -- Your Guides to the Future of the University -- Thorny Questions -- A Pluralist View of Impact -- Who This Book Is for and How It Unfolds -- 2. The Liberal Arts Go Global -- Waves of Change -- The Liberal Arts Go Global -- Innovation and Tradition -- 3. The World's Honors College: NYU Abu Dhabi -- A Provost without a University -- Creating the World's Honors College -- Abu Dhabi as the Middle East Ideas Capital -- Building the Faculty and Curriculum -- Controversies on the Home Front and Academic Freedom -- Evolution and Revision -- Entering Young Adulthood -- 4. In Asia for the World: Yale-NUS College -- Singapore as an Education Hub -- Yale Appoints a Dean -- Global Ambitions for NUS and Yale -- Controversies in New Haven -- The First Yale-NUS President -- Building a Common Curriculum for the World -- The Approach to Steady State -- The Fate and Impact of Yale-NUS -- 5. A Culture of Continuous Innovation: Olin College of Engineering -- Creating the Ideal University -- The Partner Year -- The Emergence of Olin College Culture -- Olin's Second President -- Expanding Creativity and Diversity at Olin -- Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Engineering -- Preserving Innovation after the Start-Up -- 6. The Intangibles of Excellence: Fulbright University Vietnam -- The Intangibles of Excellence -- Controversy and Control -- "It Felt like a Tech Launch -- Codesign Year -- Teaching the American War in Ho Chi Minh City -- From Blank Slate to First Draft -- The Meaning of Innovation -- Impact and Trajectory -- 7. Archimedes's Lever: Ashoka University -- Overcoming the Colonial Legacy -- Creating the Rhodes Scholarship of India -- Built by the Elite, for the Elite? -- The Kama Sutra and the Mahabharata -- From Consumer to Producer.

Between Academic and Entrepreneurial Cultures -- Academic Autonomy and Institution Building -- Archimedes's Lever -- 8. Building an African Renaissance: Ashesi University -- The Return to Africa -- The Business Plan for the New University -- Building Social Capital for Ashesi -- Finding the Market for Liberal Arts in Africa -- Launching Ashesi's Campus and Curriculum -- Training Ethical Entrepreneurial Leaders for Africa -- The Ashesi University Culture -- The Future of Africa and Ashesi University -- 9. A Global Solution, African Born: African Leadership University -- From Academy to University -- Turning a University on Its Head -- Making It Safe to Innovate -- Discontent and the Emergence of the African Leadership Experience -- Excellence at Scale-ALU 2.0 and The Room -- Audacity and Risk-Taking -- 10. Critical Wisdom for the Sake of the World: Minerva University -- Brand and Specs -- Financing and Accreditation -- Critical Wisdom and Curricular Structure -- Building a Fully Active Pedagogy -- Cities and Students -- Faculty Culture -- Sustaining the Vision -- 11. Essential Categories for Success in a Start-Up University -- Generating Prestige -- Creating a Sustainable Business Model -- Build and Launch -- Recruiting the Faculty -- Curriculum and Accreditation -- Campus and Virtual Environment -- 12. Shared Governance and Global Aspirations -- Shared Governance in a Start-Up World -- Managing Conflict and Navigating Ambiguity -- Rooting Global Aspirations in the Local Context -- Rediscovered Heritages and Global Residents -- Evolutionary Phases and Underlying Assumptions -- 13. Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Parting Thoughts -- Adaptation and Succession -- Cultivating Flexibility -- Balancing Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces -- Parting Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.