Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of a "good university".

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Preface and acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Universities as civic spaces

• The structure of the book
• Troubled times
• Civic spaces, civic leadership
• Academic professionalism: a changing profession
• Conclusion

Chapter 2 Universities as places of learning

• Stratification, fractionalisation and atomisation
• Management, money and marketing!
• Change from the inside-out
• Academic professionalism: a learning profession
• Conclusion

Chapter 3 Universities as deliberative spaces

• A failure of nerve
• Reclaiming a sense of purpose
• Whose freedom? Whose spaces?
• Academic professionalism: a profession of values
• Conclusion

Chapter 4 Truthfulness: accuracy and sincerity

• The Socratic legacy
• The virtues in practice
• The notion of truthfulness
• The integrity of practice: truthfulness
• Conclusion

Chapter 5 Respect: attentiveness and honesty

• The notion of respect
• Respect as recognition
• Attentiveness and honesty
• The integrity of practice: respect
• Conclusion

Chapter 6 Authenticity: courage and compassion

• The notion of authenticity
• Authenticity and the emotions
• Courage and compassion
• The integrity of practice: authenticity
• Conclusion

Chapter 7 Magnanimity: autonomy and care

• The notion of magnanimity
• Towards a cosmopolitan magnanimity
• Autonomy and care
• The integrity of practice: magnanimity
• Conclusion

Chapter 8 Relationships of virtue

• The social content of hope
• The notion of virtuous relationships
• Inter-personal conditions for virtual relationships
• Actualising relationships of virtue
• Conclusion

Chapter 9 Virtuous institutions

• Beyond decency
• The cost of utopia
• The conditions for institutional flourishing
• Working towards a good society
• Conclusion

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