The Crisis of the Publics: An International Comparative Discussion on Higher Education Reforms and Possible Implications for US Public Universities (symposium: March 26-27, 2007)
Participant List
Philip G. Altbach
Professor and Director – Center for International Higher Education
Lynch School of Education at Boston College
Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S.J. professor of higher education and director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and served as editor of the Review of Higher Education, Comparative Education Review, and as an editor of Educational Policy. He is author of Comparative Higher Education, Student Politics in America, and other books. He co-edited the International Handbook of Higher Education. He has taught the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he directed the Comparative Education Center, and chaired the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy, and was a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer on education at Harvard University. He is a Guest Professor at the Institute of Higher Education at Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China, and as been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Institut de Sciences Politique in Paris, and at the University of Bombay in India. He has had awards from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has been an Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and a senior scholar of the Taiwan Government. He was the 2004-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader of the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program.
Ahmed Bawa
Deputy Vice-Chancellor – Research, Knowledge Production, and Partnerships
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ahmed Bawa is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Production and Partnerships) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was recently Professor of Physics at Hunter College in the City University of New York. Before that he worked as Higher Education program officer at the Ford Foundation with the portfolio of building universities across Africa. He has been a member of many policy processes and commissions in post-1994 South Africa and has served on the Boards of Directors of Telkom, the Atomic Energy Corporation and SANLAM. He was also a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and served as Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Research Development. Bawa is a theoretical physicist and works in the area of Particle Physics. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Durham.
Robert M. Berdahl
President – Association of American Universities
Robert M. Berdahl became president of the Association of American Universities (AAU) in May 2006. Prior to this position, Berdahl served as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2004. Following his tenure as chancellor at Berkeley, Berdahl remained as a faculty member. Prior to going to Berkeley, Berdahl served as president of The University of Texas at Austin from 1993 to 1997. While at The University of Texas and at Berkeley, Berdahl was an active member of AAU, including service as its executive committee chair. Berdahl began his academic career in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1965. He joined the history faculty at the University of Oregon in 1967 and served as Oregon’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1981 to 1986, when he left Oregon to become Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is recipient of numerous honors and awards, including an honorary doctorate and distinguished alumnus award from Augustana College, a Fulbright Research Fellowship, and an NEH Independent Study and Research Fellowship. He has been a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Max Planck Institute for History in Goettingen, Germany. Berdahl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
David W. Breneman
University Professor and Dean – Curry School of Education
University of Virginia
David W. Breneman is University Professor, Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education, and Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Sweet Briar College. He was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 to 1995 and a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution. From 1983 to 1989, he served as president of Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college in Michigan. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at Brookings from 1975 to 1983, specializing in the economics of higher education and public policy toward education. Dr. Breneman received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and taught at Amherst College before moving to Washington in 1972. In 1999, he received an honorary Doctor of Education degree from Worcester State College, and in 2006, Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
Steven Brint
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Riverside
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside and Director of the Colleges and Universities 2000 project. He is a faculty associate of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and a fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Inequality. He is the author of The Diverted Dream (with Jerome Karabel), In An Age of Experts, and Schools and Societies. He is the editor of The Future of the City of Intellect. His work has won awards from the American Educational Research Association, the Council of Universities and Colleges, and the American Sociological Association. He is currently working on a book on institutional change in American research universities, 1980-2005.
John Aubrey Douglass
Senior Research Fellow – Public Policy and Higher Education
Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley
John Douglass is a Senior Research Fellow whose current research interests are focused on the student experience in research universities, the role of universities in economic development, science policy as a component of national and multinational economic policy, the evolving role of mass higher education in society, and the influence of globalization. He is the author of The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press 2000) recently reissued in paperback and also published in Chinese, and The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities (Stanford University Press 2007). Recent scholarly publications include articles in Higher Education Policy and Management (OECD), Higher Education Policy (Association of International Universities), Perspectives (UK), Change Magazine, Minerva, The Journal of Policy History, California Politics and Policy, History of Education Quarterly, The American Behavioral Scientists, and the European Journal of Education. He is the editor of the Center's Research and Occasional Papers Series (ROPS) and recently was a Visiting Professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS) and a Visiting Policy Analyst at the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
Kerstin Eliasson
Former State Secretary – Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Sweden
Kerstin Eliasson is a former State Secretary for Sweden’s Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Prior to his time as State Secretary, Eliasson served in a variety of positions including Director for Research Policy for the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture; Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office; and Chair of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy. He currently serves as Chief Negotiator for Sweden’s participation in several international research organizations, and as a consultant for Vinnova on US-Swedish R&D cooperation.
Henry Etzkowitz
Chair - Management of Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
Newcastle University
Henry Etzkowitz is chair in Management of Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise at the Business School, Newcastle University. He is also Visiting Professor in the Department of Technology and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University. Henry is author of Triple Helix: A New Model of Innovation; MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science and co-author of Public Venture Capital and of Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. He is co-founder of the Triple Helix international conference series on university-industry-government relations.
Daniel Fallon
Program Director – Higher Education
Carnegie Corporation
Daniel Fallon is Program Director for Higher Education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, supervising the award and administration of grants in support of teacher education reform, school leadership development, general education, and other areas of higher education important to the national interest. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Dr. Fallon held earlier appointments as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver, and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and of Harpur College at Binghamton University. Dr. Fallon has published widely on learning and motivation through his work in experimental psychology, on academic public policy, on teacher education reform, and on comparative higher education. He is the author of a prize winning book, The German University.
Irwin Feller
Senior Visiting Scientist – American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Irwin Feller is a senior visiting scientist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University, where he was on the faculty between 1963-2002. His research interests include science and technology policy, economics of higher education and program evaluation. He is the author of over 100 refereed journal articles, final research reports, and book chapters, as well as of numerous papers presented to academic, professional, and policy audiences. He has been a consultant to the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, The Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, COSMOS Corporation, SRI International, U.S. General Accounting Office, and the U.S. Departments of Education and Energy, among others. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.
Grant Harman
Emeritus Professor, Education Management
University of New England, Australia
Grant Harman is an Emeritus Professor of Education Management at the University of New England, located in the college town of Armidale in New South Wales, Australia. He also has held academic appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. At the University of New England, he has held appointments as Professor of Education Managment, Chair of the Academic Senate and Pro Vice-Chancellor Research. His research interests are in higher education management and policy, and comparative higher education studies. He is Editor in Chief of the journal Higher Education, published by Springer in the Netherlands.
Jeroen Huisman
Director – International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM)
University of Bath
Jeroen Huisman is professor in Higher Education Management and director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), University of Bath. His research interests are higher education policy; management and leadership; organisational change and diversity; internationalisation; and comparative research. He is editor of TEAM (Tertiary Education and Management) and Higher Education Policy. Other activities he is involved in include consultancy projects (e.g. OECD) and teaching on ICHEM's Doctorate in Business Administration in Higher Education Management.
Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume, DDS, PhD
Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic and Health Affairs
University of California
Rory Hume has served in a wide variety of academic and administrative roles, both in
his home country of Australia and at the University of California. He chaired the
Department of Dentistry at the University of Adelaide from 1984-1986, and served as Dean of the University of Sydney’s School of Dentistry from 1989-1991. From 1991 to
1996, he chaired the Department of Restorative Dentistry at UCSF. In 1996 he became Dean of UCLA’s School of Dentistry. Dr. Hume was appointed Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA, acting as Chief Operating Officer for the campus from 1998 to 2002. In 2002 Dr. Hume returned to Australia to become Vice Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales, where he served until 2004. He was appointed Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs for the University of California system in September 2005 and Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs in June 2006.
C. Judson King
Director – Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
C. Judson King was from 1995 until 2004 Provost and Senior Vice President – Academic Affairs of the University of California system. Before that, he was Provost, Professional Schools and Colleges on the Berkeley campus. He has been at Berkeley since 1963 as a faculty member in Chemical Engineering, chaired that department and was Dean of the College of Chemistry. He now directs the Center for Studies in Higher Education on the Berkeley campus. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received a number of national awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Council for Chemical Research. His research before turning his interests to the study of higher education has been in methods of separating mixtures and solutions. He is the author of over 240 journal articles and the text, “Separation Processes”, McGraw-Hill, 1971, 1980.
Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General – Volkswagen Foundation
Dr. Wilhelm Krull is the Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation which is located in Hanover, Germany. He is currently the Chairman of the European Foundation Centre, and a member of the Advisory Board of the German Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen. From 2003 – 2005 he was Chairman of the Hague Club of major European foundations. He has been and still is a member of numerous advisory committees and governing boards of universities, Max Planck Institutes, academies, and research organizations. At the European level he chaired expert panels on benchmarking of scientific and technological productivity as well as on monitoring of the Sixth Framework Programme. He was also strongly involved in developing the concept for establishing the European Research Council.
Otto Lin
Professor and Senior Advisor to the President
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Otto Lin is currently Professor and Senior Advisor to the President, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also CEO of China Nansha Technology Enterprises Ltd which manages several technology development programs in the Pearl River Delta Region. Previously he had served as Vice President for Research and Development of HKUST, and, President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan.
Katharine Lyall
Professor of Economics and President Emeritus – University of Wisconsin System
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Katharine Lyall is president-emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System, professor of Economics at UW-Madison, and visiting senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development in the Carter Administration and has held faculty positions at Syracuse University and The Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is The True Genius of America at Risk: Are We Losing Our Public Universities to De Facto Privatization? (Praeger/Greenwood, 2006).
Wanhua Ma
Professor at the Graduate School of Education
Peking University
Dr. Wanhua Ma is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Peking University. She received her Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. She came to work at Peking University in 1997, specializing in educational psychology and higher education administration. Since then she has carried out many research projects funded by UNDP, UNESCO, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation in China and APRU, concerning the issues of higher education reform, girls education, research university building in China, internationalization and globalization of higher education. In conjunction with her research, she has been invited to visit, teach and conduct joint research projects with different universities in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States. Currently, she is a Fulbright New Century Scholar, conducting joint research with 30 other scholars world-wide on “Higher education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response.”
Christine Musselin
Senior Researcher – Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
Sciences-Po University & the National Centre for Scientific Research
Christine Musselin is senior researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of the Sciences-Po university and the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). She leads comparative studies on higher education systems and primarily deals with university governance, public policies on higher education and research, state-universities relationships and academic labour markets. One of her books, La longue marche des universités françaises published by the P.U.F in 2001 has recently been edited in English (The Long March of French Universities) by Routledge (2004). A new book, Le marché des universitaires, dealing with hiring committees and academic labour markets in French, German and American universities was published in November 2005 by the Presses de Sciences Po. She has been a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999.
David Palfreyman
Director – The Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCheps)
New College, Oxford
David Palfreyman, Bursar and Fellow, New College, Oxford, is also the Director of OxCHEPS (The Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies). His publications include: Higher Education Management: the key elements (1996), Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), The State of UK Higher Education (2001), The Oxford Tutorial (2001), The Economics of Higher Education (2004), Understanding Mass Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Access (2005), and The Law of Higher Education (2006). David Palfreyman and David Warner are the General Editors for the fifteen-volume Open University Press-McGraw Hill series: Managing Universities and Colleges (within which they contribute a volume on Managing Crisis, 2003). His next academic project is a comparative study of elite universities as the first of a dozen volumes in a new series on comparative international higher education (2008 onwards, Series Editors: Palfreyman/Tapper/Thomas, Taylor & Francis). He is a (Joint) Director of the UUK Management Development Course for Higher Education Administrators, and the Honorary Treasurer of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE). David is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the AUA’s journal Perspectives, and is the Joint Editor of the journal Education and the Law.
Sheldon Rothblatt
Professor Emeritus and Former Director – Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
Sheldon Rothblatt is Professor Emeritus, former Chair of the Department of History and sometime Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Britain, a Fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education (Britain), a Member of the National Academy of Education (US) and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He has been a regular columnist for The Times Higher Education Supplement (London) and continues to serve on the boards of various professional societies and journals. Main published works are The Revolution of the Dons, Cambridge and Society in Victorian England; Tradition and Change in English Liberal Education, An Essay in History and Culture; The European and American University since 1800 (edited with Bjorn Wittrock); The Modern University and its Discontents, The Fate of Newman’s Legacies in Britain and America (a translation into Chinese is underway); and most recently, Education’s Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800-2006. A selection of his writings has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Japanese. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford, Samford, Columbia, New York, Monash and Oslo universities and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He holds an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University.
Michael Shattock
Visiting Professor – Institute of Education
University of London
Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London where he founded an MBA in Higher Education Management. Prior to this and until 1999 he was Registrar (broadly equivalent to Provost in the US system) at the University of Warwick. His best known books are The UGC and the Management of the British University System (1994, Open University Press), Creating a University System ([Ed] 1996 Blackwells) (both historical); Managing Successful Universities (2003, Open University Press), and Managing Good Governance in Higher Education (2006, Open University Press) (both in the field of contemporary management issues). He is now preparing a book on Universities and the Knowledge Economy arising out of an EU Framework 6 grant and researching a book on Policy Making in British Higher Education 1945-2006. He edits the OECD Journal Higher Education Management and Policy. He is well known for his advisory work eg on the Governance and Management of Cambridge 2001 and chairing the OECD Review of Irish Higher Education 2003.
Marijk van der Wende
Marijk C. van der Wende (1960) holds professorial chairs at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, in addition to being a senior lecturer on the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master Programme on Higher Education (Universities of Oslo, Tampere, Aveiro, Twente). She is currently the President of the Governing Board of the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) and a member of various national and international advisory committees and editorial boards. Her research focuses on the impact of globalisation on higher education and related processes of internationalisation and Europeanisation. She published widely on how these processes affect higher education systems, their structure and governance, institutional strategies, curriculum design, innovation, quality assurance methods, and the use of technology. Between 1990 – 2002 Van der Wende held positions at NUFFIC (the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education), the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in Brussels, the University of Amsterdam, and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education, at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
Stephan Vincent-Lancrin
OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin has been working at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (Directorate for Education) for 6 years on various topics, including internationalisation of higher education, e-learning, international quality assurance, knowledge management, learning cities and regions. He has co-authored and coordinated the recent OECD/CERI publications on Internationalisation and trade in higher education and on E-learning in tertiary education. He is currently leading two projects: a follow-up of CERI work on internationalisation and trade in higher education geared towards developing countries, in collaboration with the World Bank (Capacity development through cross-border higher education); a major project on the future of higher education, based on thematic analyses, consultation and scenario building. Before joining the OECD, Stéphan has worked for 7 years as lecturer and researcher in economics at the University of Paris-Nanterre and the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics and master’s degrees in business administration and in philosophy.
Taizo Yakushiji
Professor and Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy
Keio University and Cabinet Office
Taizo Yakushiji is a member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy of the Cabinet Office and a Professor of Political Science at Keio University (currently on leave). He was formerly Vice President for Academic and International Affairs at Keio University. Dr. Yakushiji is also the Executive Research Director at the International Institute for Policy Studies. He was educated at Keio University (B.S. in Electrical Engineering), University of Tokyo (B.A. in History and Philosophy of Science), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in Political Science). Dr. Yakushiji was also a Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow (1970–75). He was Professor of Technology and International Relations at the Graduate Institute of Political Science at Saitama University and Visiting Senior Research Associate at both the Berkeley Roundtable on International Economy and the Department of Political Science of the University of California at Berkeley (1984–85). Dr. Yakushiji was selected as one of the “1988 Young Leaders of Asia” by the U.S.-Asia Institute in Washington, D.C. and was at the Ushiba Memorial Foundation (1991–92) at the German Society for Foreign Affairs and the French Institute of International Relations.
John Zysman
Professor of Political Science and Co-Director – BRIE
University of California, Berkeley
John Zysman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Professor John Zysman has been a member of the University of California, Berkeley faculty since 1974, and is Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), established in 1982. Professor Zysman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years his research has spanned an array of topics on the political economy, from French post-industrialist policy to the influence of the internet on industrial competition (Tracking the Transformation). His most recent work assesses the impact of the digital transformation. How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era, (Stanford University Press) is the product of a joint multi year project between BRIE and the Institute on the Finnish Economy (ETLA), and in part the University of Helsinki Institute on European Studies. Professor Zysman’s recent research has two foci. One concerns Re-priming the American Technology Pump. The second foci is The Service Transformation, which looks at the transformation of the service sector and the reality that service reorganization in a digital era should be able to generate productivity increases.
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