WCU-4
4th International Conference on World-Class Universities
October 30 - November 2, 2011
Shanghai, China
Sunday, 30 October, 2011 |
| Whole day | Arrival of participants |
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception |
Monday, 31 October, 2011 |
| 8:30-9:00 | Opening Session: Welcoming and Opening Address |
| Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Prof. Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence | |
| Mr. Mark Garlinghouse, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Thomson Reuters | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Session I: Keynote Lecture |
| Chair: Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
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Dr. Jamil
Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank
"The road to academic excellence: Lessons of experience" |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session II: National Policies on Building WCU – Part 1 |
| Chair: Prof. Marijk van der Wende, Dean, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands | |
| Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England, United Kingdom
"Promoting excellence for the 21st century" |
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| Prof. Nikolay Skvortsov, Vice-Rector for Research, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia "World-class universities: Experience and practice of Russian universities" |
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| Prof. Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Different approaches to a shared goal: How variations in state traditions and strategies are differentiating the approach to building WCUs" |
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| General discussion | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 | Session III: National Policies on Building WCU – Part 2 |
| Chair: Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Director of Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA | |
| Dr. Luiz Cláudio Costa, Secretary of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Brazil
"The benefits of quality and excellence for Brazilian higher education" |
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| Prof. Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, Department of Computer Science, The University of Houston, USA "Developing tier one universities: The Texas approach" |
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| Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, and Ms. Mariko Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Japan
"The changing roles of world class universities during the national crisis in Japan" |
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| Prof. Yung-Chi Hou (Angela), Fu Jen Catholic University and Dean of the Office of Research & Development, Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan, Taiwan
"A reassessment of the Asian excellence programs in higher education - the Taiwan experience" |
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| General discussion | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Session IV: Institutional Practices of Building WCU – Part 1 |
| Chair: Prof. Pierre de Maret, Former Rector, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | |
| Prof. Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Rector, Aarhus University, Denmark
"Making a strong university stronger: Change without a burning platform" |
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| Prof. Vaclav Havlicek, Rector, and Prof. Vojtech Petracek, Vice Rector for Science and Research, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
"Strategy and global priorities of technical university" |
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| Dr. Enrique Zepeda Bustos, Vice-President of International Affairs and Prof. Adriana Rojas Martínez, Director for Strategic Projects, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico
"Monterrey Institute of Technology and the case of international liaison offices" |
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| Prof. Sadiq M. Sait, Director of Information Technology Center, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
"Policies on building world-class universities in Saudi Arabia: An impact study with KFUPM's example" |
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| General discussion | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Dinner Speech by Prof. Jie Zhang, President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 |
| 9:00-10:00 | Session V: Keynote Lecture |
| Chair: Prof. Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA "World-class research universities in the BRICs: Potential and challenges in Brazil, Russia, India, and China" |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session VI: Institutional Practices of Building WCU – Part 2 |
| Chair: Mr. Pawan Agarwal, Adviser for Higher Education, Government Planning Commission, India | |
| Prof. Francis-Luc Perret, Vice-President for Planning and Logistics, and Dr. Michel Bourquin, Deputy Vice-President & Logistics Project Manager, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Private Public Partnership (PPP): A way of boosting the dynamics of the EPFL campus" |
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| Prof. Marijk van der Wende, Dean, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands "Trends towards global excellence in undergraduate education: Taking the liberal arts experience into the 21st century" |
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| Prof. Gerard Postiglione, and Dr. Jisun Jung, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"Patterns of productivity among Asia's top tier researchers" |
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| General discussion | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session VII: Use of Rankings in Building WCU |
| Chair: Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Former Chief of Higher Education Section, UNESCO | |
| Dr. Freya Mearns, Policy Officer for Research Excellence and Mr.Tony Sheil, Deputy Director of Research Policy & Strategy, Griffith University, Australia "Global benchmarking and partner selection using world university rankings and classifications" |
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| Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore "Global rankings narrow the influence gap between universities in developed nations and emerging nations" |
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| Prof. Danie Visser, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Dr. Marilet Sienaert, Director of Research Office, University of Cape Town, South Africa "Rational and constructive use of rankings: A challenge for universities in the global South" |
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| General discussion | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Session VIII: Indicators of WCU |
| Chair: Dr. Ghislaine Filliatreau, Director, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, France | |
| Prof. Ying Cheng, Executive Director of Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
"The statistical analysis of world-class universities" |
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| Mr. Simon Pratt, Project Manager for Institutional Research, Thomson Reuters "Thomson Reuters Institutional Profiles: A new approach to evaluating academic institutions" |
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| Dr. Isidro F. Aguillo, Head of Cybermetrics Lab, National Research Council (CSIC), and Mr. Enrique Orduña-Malea, Research Fellow, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain "World-class universities and the Webometrics Ranking: Designing and implementing G-factor and new web indicators" |
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| 17:00-17:30 | Closing Session |
| Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Dean of Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Prof. Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence | |
| 19:00-21:30 | Social Events |
Wednesday, 2 November, 2011 |
| Whole day | Post-conference sightseeing |
| Whole day | Departure of participants |