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2nd International Conference on World-Class Universities （WCU-2） |
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31 October - 2 November, 2007 |
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Shanghai, China
Program
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Wednesday, 30 October |
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Whole day |
Arrival of participants |
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19:00-21:00 |
Welcome reception |
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Thursday, 1 November |
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8:30-9:00 |
Opening Session: Welcoming remarks and overview of meeting objectives |
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Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES |
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9:00-10:00 |
Session I: Plenary Lecture |
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Chair: Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank |
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Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Empires of knowledge: the challenges of world-class research universities in developing countries |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Session II: Conceptual Aspects of World-Class Universities |
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Chair: Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, École Normal Superieure, France About evaluation of world class universities: Respect of differences between nations in the definition of evaluation criteria |
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Prof. André Siganos, Director General, CampusFrance, France Rankings, governance and attractiveness: the new French context |
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Uwe Brandenburg and Prof. Detlef Mueller Boeling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany Identifying the best: the CHE-ranking of excellent European graduate programmes in natural sciences |
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General discussion |
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12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Session III: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1 |
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Chair: Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France |
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Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland Quality assurance and promotion of excellence in the Swiss university system |
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Prof. Vladimir Troyan, St. Petersburg University, Russia Main principles of the strategy on building world-class universities in Russia |
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Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France The restructuring of the national French system of research and world-class universities |
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General discussion |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-18:00 |
Session IV: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 2 |
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Chair: Prof. Detlef Müller-Böling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany |
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Prof. Anders Flodström, Chancellor, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, Sweden Swedish strategies for world-class status in the context of university rankings - metrics for academic science |
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Prof. Ivan Rozman, Rector, and Prof. Marko Marhl, Vice-Rector, University of Maribor, Slovenia Improving quality of universities by world-university-ranking in Slovenia and the Danube region |
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Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan The new direction of Japanese higher education policy: Conflicts between global and domestic logic |
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Prof. Kampechara Puriparinya, ChulalongKorn University, Thailand Strategies towards the world-class universities of Thai higher education institutions |
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General discussion |
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19:00-21:00 |
Dinner |
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Friday, 2 November |
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8:30-9:30 |
Session V: Keynote Lecture |
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Chair: Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank |
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Prof. John Casteen, President, University of Virginia, USA |
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Effective university management in difficult times |
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9:30-10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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10:00-10:30 |
Session VI: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1 |
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Chair: Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France |
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Prof. Jing Huan Shi, Tsinghua University, China Combining the vision, mission and actions: Tsinghua’s experience in building the world-class university |
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Prof. José-Ginés Mora, Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Strategies for developing a world-class university in a complex context: the case of the Valencia University of Technology |
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Associate Prof. Gil Sun Song, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China A step toward a world-class research university: Seoul National University |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Session VI: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities – Part 2 |
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Chair: Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA |
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Dr. Tony Sheil, Senior Manager, Research Policy Office for Research, Griffith University, Australia Implications of world university rankings for national and institutional research strategy of small developed nations |
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Prof. Richard Russell, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, Australia The pursuit of “scale and focus” at the University of Adelaide |
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Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, Dean, School of Information & Computing, German-Jordanian University, Jordan Class universities in developing countries: German-Jordanian University model |
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General discussion
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12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:50 |
Session VII: Cooperation and Competition among Research Universities |
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Chair: Associate Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan |
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Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA Educational exchanges: What world-class universities should not adopt from U.S. higher education |
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Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Higher Education Group, University of Toronto, Canada Global portfolios and strategic international partnerships of a major research university |
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Nicola Owen, Academic Registrar, University of Warwick, UK Elite scientists and the global brain drain |
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General discussion |
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15:50-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:10-18:00 |
Session VIII: World-Class Universities – International Perspectives |
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Chair: Prof. Jie Zhang, President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
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Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank Creating world-class universities: a World Bank view |
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Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES The impact of “seeking world-class status” from the point of view of internationalization/globalization |
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17:00-17:30 |
Final Discussion and Closing Remarks |
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Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES |
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