HEC Seminar Archives
Spring 2009 Series
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Title of Seminar |
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Jan 30 |
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Cascading in Higher Education: Examining the Longitudinal Evidence on Institutional Stratification |
Feb 13 |
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Fall 2008 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
John Carroll University & Association for the Study of Higher Education |
American Women and Higher Education: Understanding the Impact of Postwar Developments |
Sep 12 |
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Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression & University of Virginia |
Sep 17 |
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University of Illinois |
Higher Learning, Greater Good: A Modern Human Capital Perspective on Current Higher Education Policy Issues |
Oct 14 |
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University of Illinois |
What Can Students Learn from Peer-Led Team Learning and an Extended Role-Play Simulation? |
Nov 13 |
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Spring 2008 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Color-blind Racial Ideology: The Politics of Ignoring Race(ism) in Education |
Feb 7 |
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Self-regulation or Government Regulation: Accreditation at the Tipping Point |
**Feb 29 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign, & |
Mar 12 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Mar 31 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Apr 9 |
** Co-sponsored by the Forum for the Future of Public Education.
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Fall 2007 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
| Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) | Sep 14 |
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Commercialization of universities: Implications and prospects |
Oct 5 |
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Oct 24 |
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Developmental Education: Addressing the Needs of College Students with Weak Academic Skill |
Nov 13 |
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| University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign | First-year Experiences for African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions |
Dec 5 |
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Spring 2007 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
Pennsylvania State University |
Conducting Educational Policy Research: Bridging "Policy" and "Research" |
Jan 24 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Academic Accommodations for Students with Cognitive and Psychiatric Disabilities: What Works and Why |
Feb 9 |
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Catherine M. Millet |
Educational Testing Services (ETS) |
Feb 27 |
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Gregory Kienzl |
American Institutes for Research |
Mar 1 |
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SUNY-Buffalo |
Exploring the Impact of Financial Aid on Community College Students |
Mar 14 |
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National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) |
Assessing Learning Outcomes in Higher Education: Demands, Opportunities, and Pitfalls |
May 4 |
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Fall 2006 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
University of Kentucky |
"The Write Stuff: Historians and Higher Education's Useful Past" |
Sep 13 |
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University of Georgia |
Sep 27 |
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Stanley Ikenberry &
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
*Oct 11 |
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Jing Lin |
University of Maryland |
"The Transformation of Chinese Higher Education: From Elite to Mass Institutions" |
**Oct 20 |
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Oct 25 |
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University of Iowa |
"Learning and Cognitive Development during the First-Year of College" |
Nov 15 |
* Co-sponsored by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.
** Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program.
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Spring 2006 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Public Higher Education: Hard Choices for a Prosperous Future" |
Jan 25 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Feb 9 |
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University of British Columbia |
Feb 15 |
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University of Michigan |
Mar 10 |
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University of Redlands |
"Building Critical Consciousness Among Asian American College Students" |
Mar 27 |
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University of Massachusetts-Boston |
Mar 31 |
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Massey University, New Zealand |
Apr 3 |
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University of Pretoria, South Africa |
"Internationalization of Higher Education in South Africa: A Developmental Perspective" |
Apr 20 |
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O'Leary Chair, |
Apr 25 |
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Fall 2005 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Date |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Hijacking Liberia and Other Acts of Piracy: Diploma Mills in a Networked World" |
Sep 21 |
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Deakin University, Australia |
Sep 29 |
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University of Georgia |
Oct 6 |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Leadership Viewed Through a P-16 Lens"
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Oct 20 |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Nov 3 |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Nov 10 |
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University of Missouri, Columbia |
Dec 2 |
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Spring 2005 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
University of Wisconsin & |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Impact of New Technologies on Knowledge Practices in Higher Education |
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Rubby Dhunpath |
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Vignettes, Freeze-frames, and Snapshots: Social Science Research in South Africa |
University of Michigan |
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Syracuse University |
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University of Michigan & |
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University of Michigan |
Governance and Curricula in Transition: Democratization in Post-Soviet Higher Education |
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University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign |
Issues in the Internationalization, Glocalization, and Grobalization of Evaluation |
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Derek Price |
Independent Researcher |
Educational Debt Burden and the Reproduction of Social Inequality |
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Fall 2004 Series
Speaker |
Institution |
Title of Seminar |
Indiana University |
Student Engagement: Understanding it, Measuring it, and Grasping the Implications |
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University of Illinois |
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University of Illinois |
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Michael McPherson |
Spencer Foundation |
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University of Illinois |
The Future of Access and Opportunity in American Higher Education |
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University of Illinois |
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University of Illinois |
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University of California at Berkeley |
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University of Illinois |

