Hi Maha,

As promised moving ideas from Twitter into here.

If we’re looking for measures, I’d like:
1. varied offerings/ flexibility of study options (distance, async, self-paced…)
2. committee structures that don’t just re-entrench status quo
3. Evidence of connections with “non-traditional” intellectuals > elders, community leaders
4. De-emphasis on “university as a place”
5. Resistance to corporate and neo-liberal forces in all of their forms
6. $$ for education not buildings
7. accountability to put education (broadly conceived) first

MB: could you please put these in comments on my blogpost so I can find them again later? I love the ones you chose, and the Canadian nuance of “elders” there… it should be EXACTLY that nuanced!!! Elders was really striking for me. And countries could learn from one another so like, for example, elders per se are not a thing in Egypt, but the idea of honoring traditional culture and learning from it, building bridges between modern/Westernized knowledge and traditional knowledge (in Egypt this is multiple things) is a beautiful idea!

TE:Exactly! LOCALIZED and SMALL should be on the list 🙂 Will add a comment to your blog.

PS: I lie where you’re headed with this!