| 6th International Conference on World-Class Universities | |
| 1-4 November, 2015 | |
| Shanghai, China | |
| SUNDAY, 1 NOVEMBER | |
| Whole day | Arrival of participants |
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception |
| MONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Opening Session: Welcome remarks and overview of meeting objectives |
| Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence | |
| Basil Moftah, President Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Session I: Keynote |
| Chair: Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert | |
| 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" | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:30 | Session II: National Perspective |
| Chair: Judith S. Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA | |
| Wendy Piatt, Director-General and Chief Executive, The Russell Group, UK | |
| "Visibility and performance: The experience of Russell Group universities" | |
| Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert | |
| "Excellence strategies and the creation of world-class universities" | |
| Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan | |
| "Transformation of university governance through internationalization: Challenges for top universities and government policies in Japan" | |
| Alex Usher, President, Higher Education Strategy Associates, Canada | |
| "World-class universities in an age of slow growth" | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 | Session III: Academics’ Perspective |
| Chair: Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić, Independent Consultant, France | |
| Simon Marginson, Professor of International Higher Education, University College London, UK High participation systems of higher education | |
| "High participation systems of higher education" | |
| 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?" | |
| 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" | |
| 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" | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Session IV: Practitioners’ Perspective |
| Chair: Pierre De Maret, Honorary Rector, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium | |
| 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" | |
| Freddy Boey, Provost, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | |
| "Strategies for academic & societal success for a young university: The NTU Singapore experience" | |
| Alexander Nebel & Dimitrios Noukakis, International Educational Affairs, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| "An international benchmarking tool on hard metrics" | |
| Joshua Schnell, Director, Government and Academia, Intellectual Property and Science | |
| "Assessment of indicators of the economic impact of universities" | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Conference Dinner |
| TUESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Session V: Plenary Speech |
| Chair: Nian Cai Liu, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Bernd Huber, President, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany & Former Chairman, League of European Research Universities | |
| "The role of universities in society: Challenges ahead" | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00-12:30 | Session VI: Rankers’ Perspective |
| Chair: Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence | |
| Ying Cheng, Executive Director, Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| "Academic Ranking of World Universities" | |
| Ben Sowter, Head of Division, QS Intelligence Unit, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, UK | |
| "QS World University Rankings" | |
| Duncan Ross, Director of Data and Analytics, Times Higher Education, UK | |
| "THE World University Rankings" | |
| 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" | |
| Gero Federkeil, Head of International Rankings, CHE - Center for Higher Education, Germany | |
| "Measuring university performance multi-dimensionally - U-Multirank" | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session VII: Institutions’ Perspective |
| Chair: Ghislaine Filliatreau, Director, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, National French Agency for the Evaluation of Education and Research (HCERES), France | |
| 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" | |
| 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" | |
| Seeram Ramakrishna, Director, National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
| "Strategies to be globally visible and locally engaged" | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Session VIII: Institutions’ Perspective |
| Chair: Charles A. Goldman, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation, USA | |
| Chris Cocklin, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University, Australia | |
| "A university for the Tropics" | |
| 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 " | |
| 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" | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Closing Session |
| Nian Cai Liu, Dean of Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence | |
| WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER | |
| Whole day | Post-conference sightseeing |
| Whole day | Departure of participants |
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