6th International Conference on World-Class Universities
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1-4 November, 2015
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Shanghai, China
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SUNDAY, 1 NOVEMBER
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Whole day
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Arrival of participants
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19:00-21:00
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Reception
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MONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER
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8:30-9:00
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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
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Session I: Keynote
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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
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"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
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Session II: National Perspective
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Chair: Judith S. Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA
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Wendy Piatt, Director-General and Chief Executive, The Russell Group, UK
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"Visibility and performance: The experience of Russell Group universities"
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Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert
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"Excellence strategies and the creation of world-class universities"
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Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan
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"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
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"World-class universities in an age of slow growth"
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-15:30
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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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"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
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"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
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"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;
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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
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"An international benchmarking tool on hard metrics"
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Joshua Schnell, Director, Government and Academia, Intellectual Property and Science
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"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
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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
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"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
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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
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"Academic Ranking of World Universities"
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Ben Sowter, Head of Division, QS Intelligence Unit, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, UK
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"QS World University Rankings"
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Duncan Ross, Director of Data and Analytics, Times Higher Education, UK
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"THE World University Rankings"
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Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report, USA
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"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
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"Measuring university performance multi-dimensionally - U-Multirank"
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-15:00
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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
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"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
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"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
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"Strategies to be globally visible and locally engaged"
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15:00-15:30
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Coffee Break
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15:30-17:00
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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
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"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
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"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
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"Rankings and strategic planning: The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s case"
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17:30-18:00
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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
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Post-conference sightseeing
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Whole day
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Departure of participants
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