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Engaging the Wisconsin Experience
(2007-04-18)The Offices of the Dean of Students (ODOS) is expanding its role as the central "connector" for students' experiences across campus. Two ODOS leaders will share details of the office?s new mission, vision, and cross-campus ... -
Enter the Dragon? China's Higher Education Returns to the World Community: The Case of Peking University
(2009-04-20)In the coming decade, Peking University aims to achieve world-class status as an international research institution. However, the institution has encountered a fundamental issue: successful adaptation of the European-American ... -
The Evolution of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
(2007-10-30)In 2008, construction will begin on the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. These twin centers -- the private Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR) and the public Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) -- will serve as ... -
Federal Higher Education Policy in an Election Year
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A First Look at First-Generation Undergraduates at UW-Madison
(2008-03-04)The UW-Madison Office of Undergraduate Admissions has recently started collecting and recording the first-generation status of undergraduate applicants. This creates a new opportunity to learn more about a group of students ... -
Global Partnerships: An Exploration of Inter-Institutional Research Collaboratives
(2008-04-15)Society?s most pressing challenges are increasingly global in scale, creating the need for partnerships unconstrained by disciplinary, institutional, or national boundaries. Partnerships across countries, in particular, ... -
The Global University
(2008-03-11)Join two experts on the internationalization of higher education for a candid discussion about how local communities and regions benefit from the global efforts of their public universities. Topics will include knowledge ... -
Globalizing the 'Bologna Process': Looking Closely at Europe's 'Looking Out' Policy for Higher Education
(2009-05-15)Professor Robertson will be looking closely at the globalization of Europe's Bologna Process, which is altering the terms and terrain of higher education in and outside of Europe. She argues that this process-- the creation ... -
Hard Times in America's Laboratory for Democracy: Wisconsin Legislative Politics 1966 and Now
(2007-09-11)As a higher education policy analyst at the National Center for Higher Education, Jacob Stampen learned that the health of political systems greatly influence the quality of higher education. However, as a teacher and ... -
Higher Education Today and Tomorrow
(2006-09-26)Respondents: Alan Fish, Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities, Planning, and Management, UW-Madison; and Daniel Okoli, Campus Architect, UW?Madison. Moderator: Kenneth Frazier, Interim Chief Information Officer and ... -
How States and Institutions Shape Racial Dynamics in Higher Education
(2006-11-15)In the past decade, states and postsecondary institutions have implemented a variety of policy measures designed to create a university environment that encourages persistence of undergraduate minority students. The types ... -
How Students and Families Use Rankings for College Selection
(2003-11-20)Top-selling college rankings issues published annually by U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, and Money are becoming an increasingly important factor in the competition among institutions of higher education. This ... -
The Idea of Engagement and the African University in the 21st Century: Some Thoughts
(2008-04-02)Lesley Le Grange teaches and researches in the fields of environmental education, research methodology, science education, and curriculum and assessment. He is the recipient of three national (South African) awards for ... -
The Implications of Knowledge Transfer for Universities in General and for Arts and Humanities Subjects in Particular
(2008-06-06)Knowledge Transfer (KT) is an increasingly high-profile part of government policy in the United Kingdom, and this interactive seminar aims to explore whether KT is a uniquely UK concept. It will begin with an introduction ... -
An Inventive Wisconsin: Ingenuity, Enterprise, and the Knowledge Economy
(2007-09-24)Tom Still will talk about the work of the Wisconsin Technology Council, which serves as the independent science and technology advisor to the governor and the state legislature and addresses Wisconsin's strengths and ... -
Looking Outwards to the Global World: The Drive for Internationalizing Universities in Hong Kong and Asia
(2008-05-16)The rise of the knowledge-based economy has considerably transformed higher education systems as well as the underlying values and design of curricula in higher education. In order to enhance the global competence of ... -
Low-Income Student Access at UW-Madison and Beyond: Problems and Solutions
(2007-02-23)Levels of access and success in higher education depend on the policies pursued by colleges and universities and the characteristics of applicants, enrollees, and graduates. These often controversial issues are closely ... -
Marshalling Resources for Change: System-Level Initiatives to Increase Access and Success
(2008-06-13)Canada has a highly educated population, and its overall rates of participation in postsecondary education are among the highest in the world. The problem of accessibility in Canadian higher education lies not in the overall ... -
Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education Research
(2007-02-28)In his presidential address to the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) two decades ago, Professor Conrad challenged the conventional beliefs that guide higher education research. In this brown bag forum, ...