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EDUCATION POLICY SEMINARSThe Education Policy Series at the Institute of Higher Education provides opportunities for the exchange of views on key policy issues in higher education and related areas. Seminar participants include faculty, graduate students, administrators, and policy experts who come from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Speakers for the seminar come from colleges and universities across the country as well as research and policy centers and government agencies connected to education policy issues at all levels.All meetings are held in Meigs Hall, Room 101. Please direct all inquires to Sheila Slaughter, the seminar coordinator. 2007-2008 POLICY SEMINARS
Assistant Professor of Education University of Michigan October 5, 2007 Michael N. Bastedo is an assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Professor Bastedo was recently named a Ford Foundation Global Policy Fellow at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, the Research Director of the Institutes on Public University Governance, and an Associate at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. In 2006, he was awarded the Pattishall Award for Early Career Achievement by the School of Education. His scholarly interests are in the governance, politics, and organization of public higher education in the U.S. and abroad. His work has been published in the Review of Higher Education, Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, Journal of Student Financial Aid, Sociology of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press) and American Higher Education in the 21st Century (2nd edition, Johns Hopkins). He is an editorial board member of the top journal in education, the American Education Research Journal, where he has also received two citations for excellence in reviewing. Professor Bastedo holds the Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University.
Professor of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University Mobility Patterns and Location Decisions of New Ph.D.s Working in IndustryOctober 24, 2007 Paula Stephan will talk about her recent work on the mobility patterns of new PhD students in science and engineering who have definite plans to work in industry. The placement of new PhDs is especially important in facilitating the movement of tacit knowledge, which contributes to economic development and technological innovation. Stephan's work examines the factors that influence the probability that a newly trained PhD will remain "local" or stay in-state. She finds that state and local areas capture knowledge embodied in newly minted PhDs, but not at an overwhelming rate. Also examined is whether attrition is higher from top rated PhD programs than lower rated programs and higher for those supported fellowships. Stephan also looks at the firms and the location of the firms where these new PhDs are hired. Finally, Stephan considers the role that federal policy should play in financial support for graduate education. Paula Stephan's research interests focus on the careers of scientists and engineers and the process by which knowledge moves across institutional boundaries in the economy. She has published articles in numerous journals and coauthored with Sharon Levin Striking the Mother Lode in Science, published by Oxford University Press, 1992. Her research on the careers of scientists has been the focus of articles in The Economist, Science and The Scientist.
Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis and Director of the Center for Community College Research University of Missouri The Future of the Community College in the 21st CenturyFebruary 13, 2008 Hailed as the greatest American education invention of the 20th century, the community college in the 21st century faces societal and educational expectations that may challenge its very existence as an institutional type. Barbara Townsend will delineate state and national policy changes that are reframing community colleges, in many cases transforming than from two to four institutions, and also address other challenges to the future of the community college in the coming decades.
University of Oslo and Higher Education Development Association (HEDDA) European Higher Education: Over the Hill and Picking Up Speed?March 3, 2008 Is higher education in Europe in a serious crisis? Peter Maassen will speak on university dynamics and European integration, developing a framework for analyzing ongoing "modernization" reforms and reform debates in Europe that take place at various governance levels. Two integration efforts, the "Bologna" and "Lisbon" processes will be discussed in terms of the way they affect university dynamics. Maassen's presentation will address the question of whether European higher education systems offer a 'European alternative' to the U.S. market model or are forced to choose between becoming "marketized or marginalized."
Amy Metcalfe will speak about recent postsecondary education system reviews and reform efforts in several provinces in Canada that have occurred over the past five years. Focusing mainly on British Columbia and its Campus 2020 report, but also touching upon recent developments in four other provinces, Metcalfe will discuss how increasing public-sector emphasis on global economic competitiveness and the role of higher education in economic development has permitted and promoted intra-sector competition between universities, colleges, and technical institutes. Furthermore, new institutional types have emerged, such as university-colleges, which serve both research and development (R&D) functions for industry as well as sites for workforce training. In addition, private for-profit and private non-profit institutions are increasing in number, following provincial governmental policy shifts that have relaxed regulation and oversight for these types of postsecondary institutions. Metcalfe is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on research policy studies, which includes aspects of academic labor, graduate student training, intellectual property, knowledge management, science studies, and academic capitalism. She is also interested in critical comparative international studies, particularly the political economy of higher education in North America, focusing primarily on academic labor markets in Canada, the US, and Mexico. She employs mixed methods in her work, including visual research methods and social network analysis.
Dr. Robert Toutkoushian presented the study he did for the Georgia Board of Regents on salary and salary compression. Toutkashian analyzed all the institutions in the Georgia system, comparing them to peer institutions to see if the state is gaining or losing ground. He found that Georgia improved dramatically in 2000, but has fallen behind in recent years, so that many institutions are now below the median of peers. His analysis of salary compression indicated that compression was not a problem at most Georgia institutions. He emphasized the University of Georgia in his presentation. Robert K. Toutkoushian received his Ph.D. in economics with a specialization in econometrics from Indiana University in 1991. Dr. Toutkoushian currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal New Directions for Institutional Research, and has published over thirty studies in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, with most of these publications relying on quantitative analyses of education data. He also heads up a research team that provides analyses for Indiana on the state’s funding formula, and consults with legislators and representatives from state agencies on a wide range of school funding issues. Toutkoushian's work centers around the application of economic theories, models, and quantitative methods to a wide variety of education issues, including faculty compensation, student demand for higher education, and education finances.
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