UNIVERSITAS

In this essay, based on a keynote address, the author calls for schola rs of higher education to join in efforts to create a new idea of the university suited to the twenty-first century. She uses her experience s in working to improve the status of women as an example of the ways universities can and must change. Then, considering the contemporary a cademic ethos, she challenges scholars of higher education to improve their own efforts at building a new, more inclusive community of schol ars for the next century.