Chapter 1. Editors' Introduction.- SECTION I. Institutional Possibilities.- Chapter 2. Resources of Hope: Truth and Reason; Jon Nixon.- Chapter 3. Pedagogies of Hopefulness and Thoughtfulness: The Social-Political Role of Higher Education in Contemporary Societies; Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen.- Chapter 4. A Public University's Balancing Act: Institutional Possibilities, Pedagogical Advancement, Individual Benefit, and State Economic Development; Rebecca Watts, Gabriel Swarts, Leslie Rush and Cynthia Brook.- Chapter 5. Hygge, Hope and Higher Education: A Case Study of Denmark; Marianne A. Larsen.- SECTION II. Pedagogical Possibilities.- Chapter 6. Is caring pedagogy really so progressive? Exploring the conceptual and practical impediments to operationalizing care in higher education; Caroline Walker-Gleaves.- Chapter 7. The pursuit of compassionate hope - repurposing the University through the Sustainable Development Goals agenda; Paul Warwick, Alun Morgan and Wendy Miller.- Chapter 8. Folds, Fractals and Bricolages for Hope: Some Conceptual and Pedagogical Tactics for a Creative Higher Education; Craig Hammond.- Chapter 9. The Enchantment of Social Theory: Engaging Equity Imaginaries in the Neoliberal Academy; Linda Muzzin.- Chapter 10. Cultivating Confucius' Ren in Hong Kong Higher Education; Cindy S.B. Ngai and Rita Gill Singh.- SECTION III. Inter / Intra-Personal possibilities.- Chapter 11. A whole life change: An including and empowering higher education for non-traditional students; Angela Scollan.- Chapter 12. Is Higher Education inherently good, educative practices intrinsically good and universities instrumentally good? What should we hope for?; Paul Gibbs.- Chapter 13. Centering humanism within the milieu of sustained student protest for social justice in higher education within South Africa; Labby Ramathran.- Chapter 14. Working in the neoliberal university: Other-regarding virtues and hope; Andrew Peterson