Hans P.M. Adriaansens is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences
at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and Dean Emeritus at
Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg, an international honours
college of Utrecht University. He was chairman of the Dutch
Sociological and Anthropological Association, member of the
Scientific Council for Government Policy, and chairman of the
Council for Social Development. He founded University College
Utrecht and Roosevelt Academy Middelburg, and is a co-founder
of European Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He publishes
on sociological theory, the development of welfare states and the
organisation of higher education.
The International University College — A Dutch Lesson
I’d like to give you an account of a recent development within Dutch Higher Education, a development that started in the late 1990s. It is the type of innovation that is drastically resetting the quality…
