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2009 / 2010 Workshops

in the Workshop Series on Higher Education Policy and Management

Date: 16-19 February 2010

The emergence of the ‘evaluative state’ (Neave 1988) across Europe is leading to rapid changes in quality control. Some of these processes are emerging from the Bologna Process, others from supranational trends such as the publication of university ratings. This workshop will explore the new quality control mechanisms emerging across Europe, and how they affect universities either in Europe or in the ‘neighbourhood’ as Europe, and in particular the UK, exports its quality control approaches. The workshop will explore the global policy context, examine accreditation and quality control in the US, then consider the UK approach to accountability and end with the ‘ratings war’ now emerging globally. It will then turn to the ‘nuts and bolts’ of thinking about quality in these new terms in your institution: what do you need to know? What do you need to do? How can you balance your academic traditions with the new rhetoric of quality?

Facilitators:

Sophia Howlett, PhD., Dean, CEU and Faculty, Higher Education Stream, Department of Public Policy

Liviu Matei, PhD., Chief Operating Office, and Head of Higher Education Stream, Department of Public Policy, CEU

Matyas Szabo, Director, CRC, CEU

Tatiana Yarkova, PhD., Senior Program Manager, SEP, CEU

Deadline for applications is 15 December 2009.
Deadline for registrations is January 16 2010.

 Date:10-13 May 2010

‘Internationalisation’ has become a buzzword in higher education management, but what does it mean and how does a university become internationalized? This workshop explores the concept of internationalization using UNESCO, US and European definitions. We will discuss internationalization of the curriculum, and internationalization of teaching practices. We will also discuss the internationalization of research and research networks, including the setting-up of research management systems. How do you encourage more international publications? What matters in external research activities? Finally, we will examine the internationalization of the student body: how do you find international students, what do they expect from you, what sort of infrastructure is required?

Facilitators:

Sophia Howlett, PhD., Dean, and Faculty, Higher Education Stream, Department of Public Policy, CEU

And guest faculty

Deadline for registrations is 10 April 2010.

 Date: 1-4 June 2010

Quality of teaching and learning is increasingly considered an important dimension of

institutional effectiveness. While general ideas on ‘student-centredness’ and ‘active learning’ have become widespread and the recognition of the need for academic leadership in teaching and learning at universities is growing, there is much to be done to help institutions implement meaningful strategies to improve the quality of teaching and learning and to improve the support offered to academic teachers so that they can excel at teaching and continue to develop throughout their career. But how does one affect change in the area of teaching and learning across a university? This workshop is meant for senior university administrators and faculty developers or other academics interested in the strategic development of teaching and learning at universities. We will discuss a whole range of available policy approaches and institutional structures and we will consider in-depth case studies of approaches taken by institutions coming from very different European contexts.

 Facilitators:

Joanna Renc-Roe, M.A., Development Manager, CEU

Torgny Roxå,Academic Developer, Lund University

Deadline for applications is 1 April 2010.
Deadline for registrations is 1 May 2010.

 Dates: 9-12 June 2010

The Bologna process has triggered a large-scale reform in European higher education, with strong emphasis on internationalization and compatibility across national systems, providing a series of concrete guidelines for degree cycles, transfer of credits, and quality assurance. However, its treatment of the topic of ‘the social dimension’ of higher education, and the related student support services remains incomplete. Its main contribution has been to highlight the differences of practice and to suggest that further work is needed in order to bring clarity and consistency at the national and institutional levels.

As universities across Europe are considering the conditions in which the Bologna process is being implemented, there is a growing demand for further focused discussion on the methods and practices that will deliver Bologna’s expanded goals of student-centred learning, students’ employability and the responsiveness of higher education institutions to the needs of a changing society and labour market, quality, student mobility, lifelong learning and international attractiveness of the EHEA (Trends V , 2007).

This workshop will focus on the factors that influence the overall student experience in higher education: changing student characteristics and expectations, and the institutions’ preparedness to create a student-centred learning environment. Drawing upon case studies of institutional innovative practices, the workshop will address topics such as the meaning of ‘student-oriented’ in different institutional cultures, definition of the ‘student experience’, examples of institutional structures that deliver support for the student experience: teaching and learning, student services, enrollment management. Workshop participants will be invited to contribute case studies and share their own approaches to innovation in institutional practice.

Facilitators:

John Taylor, PhD., Professor of Higher Education Management and Policy, and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy, Southampton University

Rositsa Bateson, PhD., Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Abertay University and CEU Visiting
Professor, Department of Public Policy, Higher Education Stream

Deadline for applications is 20 April 2010.
Deadline for registrations is 9 May 2010.

Date: 19-22 July 2010

Universities are being challenged by their traditional funders -the state - to become ‘enterprises’ with new connections to the labour market, their business and social community. State funding is increasingly restricted or available for specific state priorities. For private universities, of course, funding has always been a problem. Everybody today has a cash flow issue. Everybody needs to become their own institutional ‘entrepreneur’. This workshop is a practical introduction to fundraising for universities: what types of fundraising are there? What types of fundraising should you be doing? How does one start? How do you close the deal? What type of infrastructure do you need to get what type of money? And, of course, how do we turn our ‘ad hoc’ fundraising attempts into something strategic that will help the institution in the long term as well? This workshop intends to focus particularly on Major Gifts, Corporate Fundraising and Research Management, though there is some flexibility depending on the interests of the participant group.

Facilitators:

Marta M. Lejkowski, Senior Consultant & Director of Business Development for Asia, Global Philanthropic

Pusa Nastase, Program Manager, SPO/SEP, CEU

Deadline for registrations is 28 June 2010.

The CEU Higher Education Workshop Series is supported by the Higher Education Support Programme of Open Society Institute, Amideast, USAID and the Carnegie CASE programme for Russia.

Torgny Roxå is, since 1988, an academic developer at Lund University. His main interest is strategic educational development (i.e., how to change an entire institution in relation to teaching and learning). He has been responsible for several national and university-wide initiatives, and has published on how cultural change relates to the social processes where individual academics form their understanding of teaching and learning.

Joanna Renc-Roe has been working as a development manager at Central European University’s Curriculum Resource Center since 2003. She has been engaged in planning and delivering professional development programs to academics from many post-socialist countries. She has developed a series of training sessions on teaching and learning which are now integrated into CRC courses and programs. She provides methodological input into various CRC programs in relation to teaching and learning issues and she manages a new Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program. Her current research interests are on the intersection of higher education policy and practice, educational development and scholarship of teaching and learning.

Sophia Howlett, Dean of Special and Extension Programmes, Central European University. Dr Howlett received her first degree from Cambridge University in English Literature and her DPhil from York University. She went on to teach English Literature at both York and the University of Teesside, and was a member of the Northern and UK Renaissance Seminars. Dr Howlett worked also with Civic Education Project - a volunteer organization for university teachers - teaching at universities in Ukraine and Russia.

In 1997, she moved to CEU as the head of a newly established office to promote CEU’s external activities with the East European and Former Soviet Union region, with a focus on higher education development and innovation. Under her leadership, the office has developed into a department providing grants, training and consultancy to more than 1000 higher education practitioners a year, has expanded its geographical scope to include, amongst other regions, the Middle East, and is now a Carnegie Institutional Leader in Teaching and Learning.

Dr Howlett regularly provides consultancy, evaluation and training in higher education policy to colleagues from universities up to the ministry level. She has served on the Board of CEP, and a large variety of Open Society Institute boards and committees focusing on Higher Education. She speaks at a number of conferences and events per year with a particular focus on the intersections between macro policymaking, national agendas in higher education and making change in universities. She also provides independent consultancy to organizations such as the Institute for International Education, Academic Training Association, Amideast etc. Her latest work is a major policy study on the Bologna Process in the former Soviet Union, which is now being converted into a book. She has been teaching for the CEU Gender Studies department since 1997, serving also on its doctoral committee, and from 2007 for the new specialization in Higher Education at CEU’s Department of Public Policy.

Tatiana Yarkova is one of the trainers of the Curriculum Resource Center of Central European University specializing in course design and student assessment. She received her MA from CEU's Sociology Department in 1997, and her PhD from the Center for Social Studies in Poland in 2008. She has taught at the American University-Central Asia, and worked as an academic leader in Sociology at the Central Asian Resource Center. Since 2006 she has been employed by CEU. Her research interests include sociology of knowledge and science, specifically the power/knowledge relationship in institutions of higher educations, and political sociology

Rositsa Bateson was Vice President for Student Services at the Central European University between 2000 and 2009. Before coming to CEU, she worked at the American University in Bulgaria in its Washington DC Office for Development (1993-1998), and then as Special Assistant to the President. In 1991-1993, she served as the first Deputy Director of the newly re-established American College of Sofia, Bulgaria. Her career in higher education involves broad experience of university administration and planning, research and institutional advancement. She currently works as Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Abertay University in Scotland and is a Visiting Professor to the CEU Department of Public Policy, Higher Education Stream.

As Vice President for Student Services at CEU, Dr. Bateson was responsible for the strategic development, planning and delivery of an integrated enrollment management and student services program for an international graduate student community-including recruitment, admissions, enrollment planning and financial aid, student records and registration, student life, career advising, alumni affairs, and student research. She reported to the Provost and to the Chief Operating Officer; was a member of the Executive Committee and of Senate Committees on Student Enrollment Trends, Admissions and Financial Aid, Doctoral Research Support, Institutional Accreditation, Grievance. She had strong involvement in institutional research: in studies of student characteristics and satisfaction, recruitment and admissions trends, and institutional effectiveness.

In 2008, Rositsa Bateson completed her PhD in Higher Education Management at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at the University of Southampton (UK), on “The role of student services in enhancing the student experience: cases of transformation and centralization in Central and Eastern Europe.” Since 2007, she has been on the faculty of the CEU Department of Public Policy (Higher Education Policy and Management Stream), teaching a course on Innovation, Implementation and Management in Higher Education. Further information: www.ceu.hu/web/dpp/faculty/bateson.

Marta M. Lejkowski has ten years of experience in the fundraising profession, both as a practising fundraiser and as a consultant. She began her career as a major donor fundraiser at the World Resources Institute, an environmental think-tank in Washington D.C., where she was responsible for expanding the high-level individual donor programme and coordinating a US$30 million appeal. In London, Marta worked as a Senior Major Donor Fundraiser for Shelter, a housing campaigning charity, where she managed a group of major individual donors and worked closely with trustees and volunteer leaders.

At Richmond Associates, Marta worked with a large number of leading organisations in the heritage, higher education and charity sectors to evaluate their fundraising needs and advise on building fundraising teams. She also guided executive teams and trustees on fundraising leadership and recruitment, as well as on retention of fundraisers, performance evaluations and target setting. Some of the UK organisations that Marta has recently worked with include the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Business School, King’s College London, University of Aberdeen, University of Reading, INSEAD, Tate, Royal Society, and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Marta has also worked with global organisations such as UNICEF, OXFAM, and the Open Society Institute.

These experiences, together with her various consulting projects in the non-profit sector in the US, UK and Eastern Europe, have given Marta opportunities to develop strategies for major gift fundraising, annual funds and campaigns, and to manage strong relationships with high-level donors and trustees. As a result, she has an excellent understanding of fundraising goals, what organisations need from their fundraisers, and how development fits within their overall strategic plans.

Marta has a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in Canada and a Master of Science degree from CEU. She has undertaken extensive professional training in fundraising, business and management, and has also practised as a trainee accountant with the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. As an active alumna of CEU, Marta co-founded the first US alumni chapter and helped to set up the first CEU Alumni Scholarship Fund.

John Taylor has worked in higher education management for over twenty years: first at the University of Leeds (1979-84), then the University of Sheffield (1984-95) and lastly as Director of Planning at the University of Southampton (1995-2001). His management career provided invaluable experience of all the main policy developments in UK higher education. In 2001, he moved to the University of Bath becoming Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management before returning to Southampton in 2004 as Professor of Higher Education Management and Policy and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPaS).

Professor Taylor’s main research interests build on his previous management experience, especially the analysis of policy developments in higher education; strategic and operational planning in higher education; and resource allocation at system level and within institutions. He has written widely on many of the key policy changes in UK higher education over the last 25 years, and is currently writing a history of higher education in the UK since 1945.

Many of Dr. Taylor’s other research interests can be grouped under the heading of research management in higher education institutions. These include the management of research intensive universities; the development of research in less research intensive universities; the relationship between teaching and research; the funding of research; the assessment of research quality; and the development of postgraduate research. He is working on a book looking at a range of the issues facing research in higher education.

Other interests include human resource management in higher education, and globalisation and internationalization in higher education. Finally, his roots as a historian are still alive, with an ongoing interest in the history of higher education. Further information: http://www.chempas.soton.ac.uk/contact/jt_biography.php.