"Going Global" conference focuses on opportunity and challenge in emerging systems

Even with the pressure of restrained economies, the growth of the international higher education sector has continued. The "Going Global" conference particularly focused on cost considerations, inequality of access in higher education systems with large prospective populations, and the mismatch between academic programs and workforce needs. One of the largest emerging systems is India, which has adopted community engagement as one of its priorities. Interestingly, the link between workforce preparation and community engagement is not explicitly made in these articles. A promising aspect of the community engagement model is that it includes 5 dimensions that could clearly help with workforce preparation as well as relating higher education programs more directly to the needs of the community.