Higher Education Politics and Policymaking, Then and Now - A Discussion with Past CSHE Directors and Alumni

Invited panel includes:

I. Michael Heyman – CSHE Director Emeritus

Karl Pister - CSHE Director Emeritus

Sheldon Rothblatt – CSHE Director Emeritus

Janet Ruyle – CSHE Researcher/Alum

Jack Schuster - Claremont Graduate University, CSHE Alum

Neil Smelser – CSHE Director Emeritus

Moderator and Commentator

C. Judson King, CSHE Director, UC Berkeley

Topic: Strategic Issues Facing Africa - The Emerging Role for Higher Education and the Challenges that Lie Ahead

Moderator:

Anne MacLachlan – CSHE Senior Researcher

Remarks:

Narciso Matos, Carnegie Corporation

Comments:

Ahmed Bawa, University of Kwazulu-Natal

Symposium Opening Remarks

Welcome:

Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor

Introduction/Conference Theme:

C. Judson King, John Aubrey Douglass

Higher Education – Internationalization and Globalization: Then and Now

This panel will explore the international scene for higher education in the past and how it has evolved to the present.

Moderator & Commentator:

Irwin Feller, Penn State/AAAS

Panel:

Sheldon Rothblatt – CSHE Director Emeritus

Grant Harman – University of New England, Australia

Michael Shattock – University of London

Kerstin Eliasson – former State Secretary, Sweden

Global Trends: The Environment for Higher Education in the Future

This panel will explore the major globalization trends that set the environment for future trends and developments in higher education.

Moderator & Commentator:

John Zysman, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Panel:

Henry Etzkowitz – School of Business, University of Newcastle

Alison Bernstein – Ford Foundation

John Gage – Sun Microsystems

Martin Kenney – UC Davis

Use of the Internet and Higher Education: Likely Future Trends

This panel will consider globalizing effects stemming from the use of the internet for accomplishing the several missions of higher education, including education, research and service.

Moderator and Commentator:

C. Judson King

Panel:

Rory Hume – UC Provost & Senior Vice President

Clifford Lynch – Coalition for Networked Information

Gary Matkin – Dean of Extension, UC Irvine

Diane Harley – CSHE Senior Researcher

Richard Garrett – EduVentures

The Worldwide Structure of Higher Education

This panel will consider the effects of globalization on the structure and organization of higher education. Will globalization lead to more commonalities and/or greater competition? To what extent will the structure of higher education reflect differences in emphases of different countries in the worldwide structures of society and business?

Moderator and Commentator:

John A. Douglass – CSHE Senior Research Fellow

Panel:

Robert Berdahl - President AAU

Marijk van der Wende – CHEPS Univ. of Twente /OECD

Philip Altbach - Boston College

Wilhelm Krull – Gen Secretary Volkswagen Foundation

Conclusion: C. Judson King