6th International Conference on World-Class Universities
(WCU-6)
1-4 November, 2015
Shanghai, China
Program
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Sunday, 1 November |
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Whole day |
Arrival of participants |
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19:00-21:00 |
Reception
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Monday, 2 November |
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8:30-9:00 |
Opening Session: Welcome Remarks and Overview of Meeting Objectives |
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Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence |
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Basil Moftah, President Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
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9:00-10:00 |
Session I: Keynote Speech |
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Chair: Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert |
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Francisco Marmolejo, Coordinator, Tertiary Education Global Solutions Group, The World Bank "The “world-class” movement in higher education: The good, the bad and the ugly"
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10:00-10:30
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Coffee Break |
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10:30-12:30 |
Session II: National Perspective |
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Chair: Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Higher Education Expert, France |
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Wendy Piatt, Director-General and Chief Executive, The Russell Group, UK Visibility and performance: The experience of Russell Group universities |
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Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert Excellence strategies and the creation of world-class universities |
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Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan Transformation of university governance through internationalization: Challenges for top universities and government policies in Japan |
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Alex Usher, President, Higher Education Strategy Associates, Canada World-class universities in an age of slow growth
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30-15:30 |
Session III: Academics’ Perspective |
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Chair: Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Independent Consultant, France |
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Simon Marginson, Professor of International Higher Education, University College London, UK High participation systems of higher education |
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Marijk van der Wende, Dean of Graduate Studies & Professor of Higher Education, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Jiabin Zhu, Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China China’s higher education in global perspective: Leader or follower in the “world-class” movement? |
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Gerard A. Postiglione, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, China China’s search for its own model: Liberal arts and sciences for research universities |
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Philip G. Altbach, Research Professor, Boston College, USA; Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert; Georgiana Mihut, Boston College, USA; Sage advice: The role of international advisory councils in world-class universities
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15:30-16:00
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Coffee Break
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16:00-18:00 |
Session IV: Practitioners’ Perspective |
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Chair: Pierre De Maret, Honorary Rector, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
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Tony F Chan, President, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Reflections on the role of universities in the face of the rise in rankings and internationalization |
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Freddy Boey, Provost, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Strategies for academic & societal success for a young university: The NTU Singapore experience |
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Alexander Nebel & Dimitrios Noukakis, International Educational Affairs, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland An international benchmarking tool on hard metrics |
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Joshua Schnell, Director, Government and Academia, Intellectual Property and Science Assessment of indicators of the economic impact of universities
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19:00-21:00
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Conference Dinner |
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Tuesday, 3 November |
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8:30-9:30 |
Session V: Plenary Speech |
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Chair: Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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Bernd Huber, President, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany & Former Chairman, League of European Research Universities The role of universities in society: Challenges ahead
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9:30-10:00
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Coffee Break
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10:00-12:30 |
Session VI: Rankers’ Perspective |
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Chair: Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence |
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Ying Cheng, Executive Director, Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Academic Ranking of World Universities |
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Ben Sowter, Head of Division, QS Intelligence Unit, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, UK QS World University Rankings |
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Duncan Ross, Director of Data and Analytics, Times Higher Education, UK THE World University Rankings |
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Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report, USA U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings: An inside look at the latest results and methodology |
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Gero Federkeil, Head of International Rankings, CHE - Center for Higher Education, Germany Measuring university performance multi-dimensionally - U-Multirank
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30-15:00 |
Session VII: Institutions’ Perspective |
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Chair: Ghislaine Filliatreau, Director, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, National French Agency for the Evaluation of Education and Research (HCERES), France |
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Laurent Buisson, Vice President Ways and Means, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Trading between visibility and performance at global and local levels: The example of research universities in France |
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Maria Yudkevich, Vice Rector, Higher School of Economics, Russia Global visibility and locally engagement: Can they go together? The case of National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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Seeram Ramakrishna, Director, National University of Singapore, Singapore Strategies to be globally visible and locally engaged
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30-17:00 |
Session VIII: Institutions’ Perspective |
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Chair: Charles A. Goldman, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation, USA |
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Chris Cocklin, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University, Australia A university for the Tropics |
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Sahel N. Abduljauwad, Vice Rector for Research & Sadiq M. Sait, Director of Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Impact of collaboration with world-class universities: The KFUPM story |
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Yang Zhang, Director of Institutional Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA Rankings and strategic planning: The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s case
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17:30-18:00 |
Closing Session |
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Nian Cai Liu, Dean of Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
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Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence
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Wednesday, 4 November |
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Whole day |
Post-conference sightseeing |
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Whole day |
Departure of participants
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