GSHE Reading Group
As part of our committment to advance an integrative and engaged global agenda, GSHE has initiated a student and faculty reading group that meets bimonthly to discuss the latest and most significant works on higher education in our globally connected world. Please contact us at gshe@global.wisc.edu if you are interested in participating.
All reading sessions take place from 12 noon to 2:00 pm in room 298 of the Education Building (on Bascom Mall).
17 September 2010
Rajika Bhandari and Peggy Blumenthal. 2009. Global Student Mobility: Moving Towards Brain Exchange. In Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility. Ed. Rajika Bhandari and Shepherd Laughlin. New York: International Institute of Education. Pp. 1-15.
N.V. Varghese. 2009. GATS and Transnational Mobility in Higher Education. In Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility. Ed. Rajika Bhandari and Shepherd Laughlin. New York: International Institute of Education. Pp. 17-27.
Sabine O’Hara. 2009. Internationalizing the Academy: The Impact of Scholar Mobility. In Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility. Ed. Rajika Bhandari and Shepherd Laughlin. New York: International Institute of Education. Pp. 29-47.
15 October 2010
Bruce Wildavsky. 2010. The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Shaping the World. Intro, Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Princeton: Princeton University Press. For copyright reasons, only intro and chapter 1 are available here.
Adam Nelson. 2010. Education as a Global Commodity. In Nature 464: 1266-1280.
19 November 2010
Bruce Wildavsky. 2010. The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Shaping the World. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and Afterword. For copyright reasons, only intro and chapter 1 are available here.
Halliday. 2009. Preface, Chapter 1 “The Legal Constitution of Markets” and Chapter 2 “Managing Corporate Breakdowns Across National Frontiers.” Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
17 December 2010
Brian Pusser, Sheila Slaughter and Scott L. Thomas. 2006. Playing the Board Game: An Empirical Analysis of University Trustee and Corporate Board Interlocks. Journal of Higher Education 77 (5):747-775.
Sheila Slaughter. Forthcoming. “Academic Freedom, Professional Autonomy, and the State.” In The American Academic Profession: Changing Forms and Functions. Ed. Joseph Hermanowicz. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
21 January 2011
Jamil Salmi. 2009. The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Additional reading TBD.
18 February 2011
Patti McGill Peterson. Forthcoming. On the meaning of ‘liberal education’ in various country/national contexts.
Additional reading TBD.
No meeting in March 2011 – Spring Break
21 April 2011
TBD. Planning session.
An archive of readings from past semesters is available here by clicking on the past semester/s:
