Introduction

Our new book Global Higher Education Practices in Times of Crisis: Questions for Sustainability and Digitalization aims to shed some light on strategies that higher education practitioners and researchers have developed for the higher education sector to cope with crisis times (Tilak & Kumar, 2022). This new book is a good complement to our two earlier books (Caputo et al., 2022; Lock et al., 2022) addressing issues or borderlands higher education. The subject of the new book is topical given the successive crises that the world has gone through in the past three decades, e.g. economic crises, recessions, health pandemics, including the recent COVID-19 crisis which had significant economic and social ramifications (Hack-Polay, 2020; Lock et al., 2022). During these crises, the sector has undergone significant challenges but also innovations, including the deployment of technology and strategic partnerships in order to survive (Caputo et al., 2022). This book is therefore expected to provide a comprehensive contemporary portrayal of higher education practices from the perspective of sustainability and digitalization.