Universities, Cultural Diversity and Global Ethics: Opportunities for Moral Leadership

Abstract

The paper discusses such phenomena as equality, respect and fairness as the basis for creating a global future worth having. The investigation deals with the concept of a new vision for higher education and analyzes the process of change management. Change leadership—the management of significant change and the ability to focus and align their colleagues on needed change—has become the key work of leaders. The context of a new vision for education which calls for mindset shift from reading and writing to skills acquisition with relevance for daily life and society becomes imperative. Ethics education is the opportunity for a new value orientation. Such education ensures the training of both the teacher and the student, develops new technologies and conclusively allows a new vision, a new policy, a new market, new resources and a new system. The multi-cultural university of the 21st century, as a center of thought leadership that creates and imparts conceptual and practical knowledge, is by its very nature ethical. The paper highlights such phenomena as equality, respect and fairness as the basis for creating a global future worth having. The conclusion of this paper is the fundamental idea that education does not happen in isolation but is carried out through societal, environmental and human channels.