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2006-2007 POLICY SEMINARS
Distinguished Professor Educational Leadership and Policy University of Buffalo Men, Women and Decisions About Higher EducationOctober 9, 2006 Lois Weis, distinguished professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Buffalo gave the first policy seminar of 2006-07. She addressed the findings of her book Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (2004), which re-interviews, after 20 years, the subjects of Working Class Without Work. Weis contributed insightfully to current policy debates about why men are less likely than women to pursue postsecondary education. Lois Weis is author, co-author or editor of numerous books and articles that focus on race, class and gender in American schools. Dr. Weis is past President of the American Educational Studies Association and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Educational Policy, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and Review of Educational Research.
Assistant Professor Adult and Higher Education North Carolina State University Examining the Influence of Financial Aspects of the State Higher Education Policy Context on the Production of Postsecondary Degrees: A Dynamic ApproachOctober 16, 2006 Marvin Titus, assistant professor of adult and higher education at North Carolina State University examined the influence of financial aspects of the state higher education policy context on the production of postsecondary degrees.
Executive Director Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration University of Arizona Getting to Know your Neighbors: Developing Successful International Higher Education Collaboration with Latin AmericaOctober 23, 2006 Francisco Marmolejo serves as executive director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), a network of more than 130 colleges and universities from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, headquartered at the University of Arizona. His seminar addressed the importance of developing successful international higher education collaboration with Latin America. Recent launching of new educational policies in different Latin American countries offers a unique opportunity for collaboration in the area of education.
Senior Associate Institute for Higher Education Policy The Propaganda of Numbers: Sorting the Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly About Higher Education in AmericaOctober 25, 2006 Clifford Adelman, senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, expanded on his article, "Propaganda of Numbers" (Chronicle of Higher Education 10/13/2006), which discusses the importance of sorting data concerning higher education. He warned that many assertions cannot "be supported by any national data that have been rigorously reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics . . . It is counterproductive to make decisions based on assumptions derived from unexamined numbers."
Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Chair, Educational Leadership Department Indiana State University Longitudinal Study of the Costs of University Technology TransferJanuary 22, 2007 Joshua Powers, associate professor of higher education leadership at Indiana State University, whose research focuses on the commercialization of academic science, delivered a policy seminar on the results of a national longitudinal study on the revenues and costs of university technology transfer including its profitability to the university and the odds that a university will ever realize net gains on investment.
Assistant Professor of Leadership, Foundations, & Policy University of Virginia
The New Political Economy of Higher Education:
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Gary Rhoades |
Professor of Higher Education
and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education
University of Arizona
April 5, 2007
Gary Rhoades, professor of higher education and director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona. He gave a policy seminar on the ways in which entrepreneurial behavior on the part of professors re-shapes traditional organizational structures, such as departments and colleges, so that research activity close to markets is highly valued and often relocated in centers and institutes.
Anthony Morgan |
Professor
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
University of Utah
A Comparative Perspective on Financing Higher Education
April 23, 2007
Anthony Morgan, professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah discussed comparative perspectives on financing higher education including the fundamental forces of change such as demographic shifts, policy, revenue growth, and pressures to reduce cost.
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