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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, ... -
The Merged University of Wisconsin System: Then and Now
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More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education
(2009-01-30)This presentation is part of the Ideas and Universities International Video Seminar Series and is made available on the UW-Madison campus thanks to funding and support from the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, ... -
Moving from Fiscal Constraint to New State-University Partnerships
(2003-02-26)Across the United States, state funding as a percentage of total university budgets and state per-capital contributions to public universities continue to decline. In this public forum nationally recognized speakers will ... -
Navigating the College Crunch: Need- Based Aid and the Future of Wisconsin Education and Employment
(2010)The Wisconsin Idea Forum is a biannual event sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System and hosted by system campuses. This is the second in the program series, which brings University of Wisconsin resources to bear ... -
Never Too Young: Science at Madison Children's Museum
(2007-10-22)Madison Children's Museum has a long history of collaboration with UW-Madison researchers in delivering age-appropriate science outreach for young children. Ruth Shelly will direct a virtual tour of the new expanded museum, ... -
Optimizing the Nation's Investment: Persistence and Success in Postsecondary Education
(2002-10-23)Within the context of the forthcoming re-authorization of the Higher Education Act, this conference will focus on how the nation's resources can be best used to optimize student persistence to degree completion. The ... -
Organization and Governance of Universities
(2009-02-09)Professor Bleiklie will present an analysis of the ways in which ideas and ideals of university organization and governance have changed over the past few decades, moving away from a notion of the university as a republic ... -
Perspectives from the Public: How Wisconsinites View UW-Madison
(2008-09-10)What do Wisconsinites think about UW-Madison? How do they think it could better serve their communities? Katherine Cramer Walsh spent a year sitting in on informal gatherings and casual conversations in 23 communities ... -
Preserving the Mission in Hard Times: The Example of Admissions and Financial Aid Policies
(2010-04)Why does the achievement gap matter? What, if anything, should the government do about it? What should schools, and teachers, do about it? Students are critically examining these questions and more in Professor Harry ... -
The Prevalence and Impact of Differential Tuition in Public Research Institutions
(2009-03-25)As Wisconsin?s economy continues to face difficult challenges and the legislature is forced to consider how to fund the state?s public institutions in the coming years, tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will ... -
Problems of Injustice in College Enrollment and Completion
(2010-04-12)Why does the achievement gap matter? What, if anything, should the government do about it? What should schools, and teachers, do about it? Students are critically examining these questions and more in Professor Harry ... -
Promising Examples from Outside Wisconsin
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
Quality Assurance in Higher Education as a Political Process
(2009-05-29)Is quality assurance in higher education a technical process or a political process? Michael Skolnik suggests three reasons why quality assurance should, in many cases, be viewed as a largely political process: 1) ... -
Recognizing Commitment to Community: UW-Madison and Carnegie's Engagement Classification
(2008-10-08)The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching defines community engagement as "the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities...for the mutually beneficial exchange of ... -
Reexamining the Structure and Funding of Public Higher Education in Wisconsin
(2006-10-26)This forum will examine where Wisconsin stands relative to other states, in the past and present, based on a new measure of state funding for higher education and whether the state and its public universities should consider ... -
The Relationship Between the Media and Higher Education: Married, Divorced, or Separated?
(2004-03-02)The media play an important role in shaping public debate about postsecondary education but the messages colleges and universities would like to send to the public may not be reaching them when transmitted through news ...