Visiting Scholars/Guests
Due to CIRGE’s vast and diverse international network, we have had many opportunities to host guest scholars and speakers at the University of Washington. Many of these visitors are members of our Forces and Forms of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide Network (F&F Network). Pictured below are (from left to right): CIRGE Senior Scientist, Dr. Elizabeth Rudd; CIRGE Director Dr. Maresi Nerad; Visiting Scholar Dr. Shaoxue Liu.
VISITING SCHOLARS AND GUEST SPEAKERS AT CIRGE
| Dr. Shaoxue LIU Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China  |
Dr. Shaoxue Liu is Professor and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a member of our F&F Network. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, hosted by CIRGE and the College of Education from December to May 2010. Dr. Liu was awarded her PhD degree in higher education in 1998, from the Xiamen University of China. Since 1999, she has focused her research on the history of higher education in China, undergraduate education research, and engineering education research. She has published two books, Universities in China before 1949 (2007), and The transformation of the Shuyuan to universities during the late 19th century and the early 20th century in China (2004 ), as well as about 50 papers in Chinese on this topic. Since 2008 – the beginning of the Center for the Study of Graduate Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Graduate School of Education – she began graduate education research, and is looking forward to contributing to this new field in the future. On February 26, 2010, Dr. Liu gave an informal talk at the College of Education on the history of higher education in China. |
| Dr. Shinichi YAMAMOTO Hiroshima University, Japan  |
Dr. Yamamoto, has been a member of the F&F Network since its inception in 2005. He is Professor and Director of the Research Institute for Higher Education at Hiroshima University. After graduation from the University of Tokyo in 1972, he served for the Ministry of Education (Monbusho) for 17 years, where he gained extensive administrative experiences in school education, university and research management, and international affairs. He was a research fellow at the National Science Foundation of the United States in 1988-89; was involved in OECD’s activities, including research training and university funding, at CSTP (Committee on Science and Technology Policy) in 1992-2003; and was a member of the Overall Review Committee for Program II and Program III of UNESCO in 2006-2007. His main research focus has been analysis of various functions of higher education systems, including university research, administration and management. He is also interested in staff development for institutional management. On January 25, 2010, Dr. Yamamoto, while visiting the University of Washington, gave a presentation at the College of Education on Japan’s experience regarding government and universities in higher education reform. |
| Catherine Manathuga University of Queensland, Australia  Margaret Kiley National University, Australia  |
In June 2008, CIRGE hosted two colleagues from Australia; Dr Catherine Manathunga, a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education, Teaching & Educational Development Institute & UQ Graduate School at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Dr Margaret Kiley of the Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods Linnaeus Cottages The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Dr. Manathunga is the leading Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to investigate the preparation of research and innovation leaders for industry and has received substantial research and development funding from industry partners to explore research graduate attributes and employment outcomes. She has done individual research on postgraduate supervision and joint research on interdisciplinary research education. Catherine Manathunga PresentationDr. Kiley’s current research project investigates Australian doctoral graduates’ employment destinations and attributes. In particular, focusing on doctoral graduates from Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs), which are collaborative research units where industry, business, government departments and universities work together in the areas of manufacturing technology, information and communication technology, mining and energy, agriculture and rural-based manufacture, medical science and technology and the environment. In an informal presentation on June 9, Dr. Manathuna and Kiley met with University of Washington colleagues to discuss the similarities and differences in how the US and Australia are handling current issues in doctoral education.Margaret Kiley Presentation |
| Nelofer Halai Aga Khan University. Pakistan  |
Dr. Nelofer Halai, is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the PhD Programme at the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development in Pakistan, where she took a leadership role in developing their PhD Program. Along with teaching Dr. Halai is an active researcher with more than half a dozen national and international research projects to her credit and is currently commissioned by the Oxford University Press to write a book on research methods. She is also the founding member and first president of the Pakistan Association of Research (PARE) in Education, whose main aim is to enhance a culture of research in Pakistan. On May 28, 2008, she visited CIRGE and spoke on What Does it Mean to be a Doctoral Student? Creating New Identities, presenting the results of a study which investigated the experiences of doctoral students in the newly-developed PhD program. |
| “Brain Drain, Brain Gain or Brain Circulation: Doctoral Education and the Global Divide” Panel Members: Devesh Kapur University of Pennsylvania 
Alfred Watkins Rune Nilsen |
As the closing event in the University of Washington Graduate’s School year-long series of events on the theme of the year, “The Internationalization of Graduate Education,” CiRGE director, Dr. Maresi Nerad, in her role as Associate Graduate Dean, invited a panel of experts to discuss the effects of globalization and the labor market for graduate students in May 2008.Devesh Kapur is Director, Centre for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. He is a senior associate of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C.Devesh Kapur Presentation
Alfred Watkins is the Science and Technology Program Coordinator for the World Bank. He is responsible for developing the World Bank’s global science and technology capacity-building program and recently organized a global forum on Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity Building. Rune Nilsen was previously the Deputy Rector for the University of Bergen, Norway and is now Professor and Director of the Centre for International Health there. He was until 2008 Chair of ERA MORE Norway, the EU mobility program, on the government committee for Strengthening Women in Science. |
| Terry Evans Deakin University, Australia  Kjersti FlottunUniversity of Bergen, Norway  |
Also in May of 2008, CIRGE hosted two speakers at the College of Education to speak on Transnational Issues in Mentoring in Doctoral Education.Dr. Terry Evans, a professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Until 2008 Dr. Evans was Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education for thirteen years, which included responsibility for managing graduate research candidature and supervision. An expert in advising and mentoring graduate students, he is the co-editor of two books on the mentoring of doctoral students – one from the student perspective and one from the faculty perspective. He presented on current issues in doctoral education – specifically mentoring and supervision.Professor Kjersti Fløttum, Vice-Rector for International Relations and head of the “PhD Research School in Linguistics and Philology” at the University of Bergen, Norway (a partner university of the UW). Dr. Fløttum presented on doctoral training in Bergen, with a special focus on internationalization – both abroad and at home. She also gave an overview of the Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development. |
Dr. Barbara Lovitts, Senior Associate, ABT Associates |
CIRGE and the College of Education hosted Dr. Lovitts, one of the country’s most eminent scholars on doctoral student retention and attrition in December of 2007. Currently a Senior Associate at Abt Associates, Dr. Lovitts was formerly a Senior Program Officer at the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering and has worked at the University of Maryland, the American Institutes for Research, the National Science Foundation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. An esteemed author, Dr. Lovitts’ books explore the causes and consequences of leaving doctoral study and present a roadmap for developing quality dissertations. In her most recent book, Making the Implicit Explicit, she stresses the importance of faculty communicating their expectations to their doctoral students regarding the purpose, standards, and scope of the dissertation research and writing processes. In her presentation, The Critical Transition: From Course-taker to Independent Scholar (Some Make It, Some Don’t), she discussed her research on the transition from course-taker (consumer of knowledge) to independent researcher/ scholar (producer of knowledge). She focused on the personal and social factors that contribute both to degree completion and to making an original contribution to knowledge. |
| Dr. William Clark historian and author  |
Another guest for the University of Washington Graduate’s School’s theme of the year events, “The Internationalization of Graduate Education,” in November, 2007, CIRGE invited Dr. Clark to speak on The International Beginning of US Graduate Education: The German Legacy. A renowned historian and author, Dr. Clark’s, expertise focuses on the history of higher education in the U.S. Dr. Clark has taught history at Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, the Universität Göttingen, the University of Cambridge, and UCLA, among other institutions. His most recent book, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, describes how the charisma of a professor is tied to a spirit of uncritical adulation, generated by fame and a certain display of “originality” in their writings. Beginning in the German Protestant lands of the eighteenth century, it has survived to bring about the system we have today: one of “fame through publication” instead of the oral tradition of centuries ago. In his presentation at the UW, Dr. Clark addressed the little known German origins of major elements of graduate education and its traditional “rites of passage” (such as the dissertation, comprehensive and oral exams, the seminar and endowed chair, among other examples). He explained the diverse forces, attitudes and trends that have made graduate education what it is today. |
| “The Role of Graduate Education in Nation Building panelPanel members: Louis Maheu University of Montreal  Jorge BalanCenter for Studies on State and Society Argentina and University of Toronto 
Patrick Awuah |
Louis Maheu, University of Montreal – Doctoral Education and Nation BuildingThe former Dean of Higher Education at the University of Montreal, Dr. Louis Maheu holds a doctorate in sociology from the University Paris-Sorbonne. During his career at the University of Montreal, Dr. Maheu held various administrative posts, including Director of the Department of Sociology, member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-Senior to the Faculty of Higher Education. He directed the scientific review journal Sociologie and is co-author, author and editor of more than 100 books and articles on social movements, social classes, scientific organizations and communities, as well as on universities. A member of the international network, Forces and Forms of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide, Maheu contributed to the chapter on doctoral education in Canada for the forthcoming book, Towards A Global PhD?: Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education and is part of the task force researching and reporting on nation-building and the international community for a second book to be published by the end of 2008.Jorge Balán – Research Universities in Asia and Latin America
A former Senior Program Officer for Education and Scholarship at the Ford Foundation, Jorge Balán is now a senior researcher with the Center for Studies on State and Society (CEDES), a leading private, non-profit, interdisciplinary social science research center in Argentina, and a visiting professor with the Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Before joining Ford in 1998, he was senior researcher and ex-Director of the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad and Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Balán has published extensively on issues of internal and international migration, urbanization and labor mobility, and the new professions. Recently, his research on the reform of higher education in the region has appeared in many journals and edited volumes, including Políticas de reforma de la educación superior y la universidad latinoamericana hacia el final del milenio, published by UNAM in 2000. His most recent book, World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America, co-authored with Philip Altbach, was published in May 2007. Balan – graduate Education and the Research University in Latin Patrick Awuah – Nation Building in Africa Dr. Awuah left Ghana as a teenager to attend Swarthmore College in the U.S., then stayed on to work as a program manager for Microsoft. After a nine-year career with Microsoft, Awuah returned to his home country to co-found Ashesi University, a liberal arts college, because he believes that what Africa needs most is leadership and that a true liberal arts education — steeped in critical thinking, idealism, and public service — can produce the quick-thinking, ethical leaders needed to move his country forward. His vision was to train a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders in Africa by pursuing a course of instruction that would enable graduates to be technically excellent in their chosen fields, while having the breadth of vision to navigate in a changing world. In March 2002 Ashesi became Ghana’s first private non-denominational university and charted a new course in African education, with high-tech facilities, innovative academic programs and emphasis on leadership. Ashesi means “beginning” in Akan, one of Ghana’s native languages. Five years later, Ashesi is well on track to meet its goal of training Ghana’s future business leaders. The first class of students graduated in 2005 with a foundation in liberal arts and an emphasis on social responsibility. In 2002, Awuah was selected as an inaugural fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a program to nurture young leaders who are motivated, effective, values-based and community spirited. |
