The Global University:
Past, Present, and Future
Perspectives
Overview | Program | Speakers
The Global University: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives was a two-day conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 5 and 6, 2010. Following up on earlier meetings in China and the United Kingdom, this was the third international conference of the “Ideas and Universities” project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
The “Ideas and Universities” project brings together leading higher-education scholars from China, Australia, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to discuss (a) the roles that universities have played—and continue to play—in the global knowledge economy, and (b) the evolving identity of university teacher-researchers and their changing roles in institutions of higher learning.
If you have questions about the conference, please contact Professor Adam R Nelson.
Speakers
Ka Ho Mok, Associate Vice President (External Relations), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
Chen Hongjie, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Peking University, China
Xu Xiaozhou, Dean and Professor, School of Education, Zhejiang University, China
Tony Welch, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter Maassen, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, Norway
Ivar Bleiklie, Chair, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway
Glen Jones, Ontario Research Chair, Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement, University of Toronto, Canada
Ian Wei, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, United States
Rosemary Deem, Dean of History and Social Sciences, Royal-Holloway-London, United Kingdom
John Taylor, Director, Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Fazal Rizvi, Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Gilles Bousquet, Dean, Division of International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Adam R. Nelson, Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
More complete biographies of the speakers are available here.
Links of Interest
WUN Ideas and Universities Initiative
Includes links to the project’s annual Spring Videoseminar Series.
Conference @ Zhejiang University (April 3-4, 2007)
Conference & Workshop, London (November 14-15, 2007)
Travel Information (from the Fluno Center @ UW-Madison; conference venue)
Information on local hotels (pdf format)
Global Studies in Higher Education @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sponsors
Sponsors of The Global University conference include: the Worldwide Universities Network; the University of Bristol; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and Department of Educational Policy Studies.
