TY - JOUR AB - States that four trends promise to dramatically change the university of the next century: globalization, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization, driven by economy and efficiency, technology, values and rights, and power and politics. The article explores the impact of these trends on the future of the university, presents possibilities for structural change, and offers probable scenarios for the future. The conclusions suggest that the Web and globalism may end the monopoly of the traditional university and paradoxically place the transformed university simultaneously at the center of society. VL - 8 IS - 2 SN - 1074-8121 DO - 10.1108/10748120010803357 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120010803357 AU - Inayatullah Sohail AU - Gidley Jennifer PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - Trends Transforming the Universities of This Century: Virtualize, Disappear, or Transform T2 - On the Horizon PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 1 EP - 6 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -