Can Provincial Universities be Global Institutions? Rethinking the Institution as the Unit of Analysis in the Study of Globalization and Higher Education

Glen A. Jones, Higher Education Group Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Deterritorialising academic freedom when realising the global university

Professor Kris Olds, University of Wisconsin Madison

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Charismatic teaching and its globalisation

Professor (emeritus) Stephen Jaeger, Departments of German & Comparative Literature, Centre for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Internationalizing and International-benchmarking of Universitities in East Asia: Producing World Class University or Reproducing Neo-Imperialism in Education?

Professor KaHo Mok, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of HongKong

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

THE RISE of the CHINESE KNOWLEDGE DIASPORA: Possibilities, Problems and Prospects for South and North

Anthony Welch, University of Sydney and  Zhang Zhen, University of Sydney, and Tianjin University

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Progressive Internationalization: Nanjing University’s Theory and Practice

WANG Yunlai  &  DAI Zhehua

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Institutionalization of Research

ADAM R. NELSON, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Producing and Re/producing the European University in the 21st century: research perspectives on the shifting purposes of higher education

Professor Rosemary Deem, Centre for Studies of Higher and Post-compulsory Education (SHAPE), Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html

Realising the Global University – Critical Perspectives

This blog is in support of a conference being held by the Worldwide Universities Network, ‘Realising the Global University’, in London on 14th-15th November 2007.  The conference is in two parts.  The 14th, subtitled ‘Critical Perspectives’, is aimed chiefly at academics.  The 15th, subtitled ‘Developing effective international strategies in a rapidly changing world’, is intended primarily for vice-chancellors, university presidents and policy-makers.The website for the 15th is already active, so its deliberately open list of themes can be consulted at http://www.globalhe.org/.  On the 14th we will take a critical look at some of the fundamental underlying issues.  Speakers will be addressing questions such as:

• What is the purpose of globalisation in higher education?  Does it just offer a framework for competition and the pursuit of national interests? Or is it about international co-operation serving common goals such as peace?

• What forms can globalisation take in higher education (past, present and future)?

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of these various forms?  Does globalisation mean all universities becoming the same (the isomorphic university)?  Is this desirable?  If not, how is globalisation to work while respecting different traditions and practices?

• What does globalisation mean for teaching and learning, i.e. for both students and teachers?

• What does globalisation mean for research?

Ten speakers will publish papers at http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/globaluniworkshop/index.html early October so that online discussion can take place between then and the conference.  Participants will be invited to comment using this blog. In order to maximise the time for discussion on the day, each speaker will be allowed ten minutes to summarise key points and above all respond to the online discussion.  There will be discussion of each paper and discussion of common themes.  Including the speakers, there will be about thirty participants.

The speakers are:

• Professor Rosemary Deem (Bristol);

• Professor Stephen Jaeger (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);

• Professor Glen Jones (Toronto);

• Professor KaHo Mok (Bristol/HongKong);

• Professor Adam Nelson (Wisconsin Madison);

• Professor Kris Olds (Wisconsin Madison);

• Professor John Taylor (Southampton);

• Professor Yunlai Wang (Nanjing);

• Professor Anthony Welsh (Sydney);

• Professor Wang Yibing (Zhejiang).

Attendance on the 14th is free and by invitation.  Anyone wishing to attend should contact Ian Wei at ian.p.wei@bristol.ac.uk.