Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions [electronic resource] / edited by Abdulrahman AI-Youbi, Adnan H. M. Zahed, William G. Tierney.

King Abdulaziz University Approach to International Collaboration -- Creating the Organizational Climate for Global Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities -- Building Successful Partnerships -- International cooperation for Asian universities: A Hong Kong perspective -- Global citizens for the 21st century: the role of international partnerships in university education -- International networks - the catalyst of change and excellence -- University cooperation in knowledge transfer -- Student Exchange: The first step towards International Collaboration -- The Tricky Terrain of Global University Partnerships -- Long-Term Sustainability in Global Higher Education Partnerships.

Open Access

This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovative culture might be established and maintained to enable global partnerships to be implemented and to succeed is discussed. The book provides an intense focus on why collaboration is a necessary ingredient for knowledge transfer and explains how to do it. The last part of the book considers how to sustain partnerships. This is because one of the challenges of global partnerships is not just setting them up, but also sustaining them.