18th International Conference on Higher Education




19^th International Conference on Higher Education Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romania 31 August – 2 September 2007 Opening addresses: Prof. Wolfgang Breckner, Vice President, Babeş-Bolyai University Chancellor em. Ignaz Bender, President of the International Conference on Higher Education Keynote addresses: Prof. Sascha Spoun, President of Lüneburg University, Germany Personality – the Main Cultural Mission of the University Prof. Andrei Marga, President of the Academic Council, Babeş-Bolyai University The Challenges of Today’s University Prof. Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur Ethics and Values – Fundamentals of the Cultural Mission of the University Prof. Ludvik Toplak, Rector em. of the University of Maribor, Slovenia Formalizing the Cultural Mission of the University (The Cultural Aspects) Contributed papers: Dr Naoko Suzuki, Tokushima University, Japan The Changing Role of theUniversity in Japan: the meaning of “cultural mission” in its reform Prof. Che Husna Azhari, Director of the Institute of Malay World and Civilization (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia The Cultural Mission of the University: Enlivening the values and ethics of their societies as key performance indicators Prof. Saran Kaur Gill, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Language and Cultural Identity: Balancing national and international needs in public universities in Malaysia Chancellor em. Ignaz Bender, University of Trier, Germany Managing the cultural mission of the university