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HEC Seminar Archives

 


Spring 2009 Series

Speaker

Institution

Title of Seminar

Date

• Judy Erwin

Illinois Board of Higher Education

Illinois’ Public Agenda for Higher Education

Jan 30

• Michael Bastedo

University of Michigan

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

• Linda Eisenmann

John Carroll University & Association for the Study of Higher Education

American Women and Higher Education: Understanding the Impact of Postwar Developments
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Sep 12

• Robert O'Neil

Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression & University of Virginia

Can You Really Speak Freely on a Public Campus?

Sep 17

• Walter McMahon

University of Illinois

Higher Learning, Greater Good: A Modern Human Capital Perspective on Current Higher Education Policy Issues

Oct 14

• Michael Loui

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

• Helen A. Neville

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Color-blind Racial Ideology: The Politics of Ignoring Race(ism) in Education

Feb 7

• Judith Eaton

Council for Higher Education Accreditation

Self-regulation or Government Regulation: Accreditation at the Tipping Point

**Feb 29

• Nancy Abelmann,
Priscilla Fortier, &
Gina Bessa

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign, &
Illinois State University

Interrogating the University, One Archives (Entry) at a Time: The Daily Life and Research of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI)

Mar 12

• William Trent

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Beyond Desegregation: Achieving the Benefits of Integration

Mar 31

• Greg Kienzl

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

The Impact of Merit-based Scholarship Programs

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

• Marybeth Gasman

University of Pennsylvania

Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

Sep 14

• Art Padilla

North Carolina State University

Commercialization of universities: Implications and prospects

Oct 5

• Marc Chun

RAND/CAE

The Contested Terrain of Higher Education Assessment

Oct 24

• Thomas Bailey

Teachers College, Columbia University

Developmental Education:  Addressing the Needs of College Students with Weak Academic Skill

Nov 13

• Lorenzo DuBois Baber

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

• Don Heller

Pennsylvania State University

Conducting Educational Policy Research: Bridging "Policy" and "Research"
* PowerPoint Presentation *

Jan 24

• Kim Collins &
Greg Lambeth

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Academic Accommodations for Students with Cognitive and Psychiatric Disabilities: What Works and Why

Feb 9

• Catherine M. Millet

Educational Testing Services (ETS)

Three Magic Letters: Getting to Ph.D.

Feb 27

• Gregory Kienzl

American Institutes for Research

Getting, Going, Leaving, and Redoing

Mar 1

• Kimberly Rogers

SUNY-Buffalo

Exploring the Impact of Financial Aid on Community College Students

Mar 14

• Peter T. Ewell

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

• John Thelin

University of Kentucky

"The Write Stuff: Historians and Higher Education's Useful Past"

Sep 13

• Sheila Slaughter

University of Georgia

"Academic Capitalism and the Public Good"

Sep 27

• Stanley Ikenberry &
Judy Rowan

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"Higher Education & the Public: Can We Talk?"

*Oct 11

• Jing Lin

University of Maryland

"The Transformation of Chinese Higher Education: From Elite to Mass Institutions"

**Oct 20

• Jane Loeb

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"Women and Higher Education"

Oct 25

• Ernest Pascarella

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

• B. Joseph White

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"Public Higher Education: Hard Choices for a Prosperous Future"

Jan 25

• Rick Schoell

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act"

Feb 9

• Hans Schuetze

University of British Columbia

"International Trends and Developments in Higher Education"

Feb 15

• Ed St. John

University of Michigan

"Privatization"

Mar 10

• Keith Osajima

University of Redlands

"Building Critical Consciousness Among Asian American College Students"

Mar 27

• Alicia Dowd

University of Massachusetts-Boston

"Scholarship of Best Practices"

Mar 31

• Liz Gordon

Massey University, New Zealand

"Academic Freedom in the Age of Big Brother"

Apr 3

• Chika Sehoole

University of Pretoria, South Africa

"Internationalization of Higher Education in South Africa: A Developmental Perspective"

Apr 20

• George Psacharopoulos

O'Leary Chair,
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"Higher Education in the World Today"

Apr 25

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Fall 2005 Series

Speaker

Institution

Title of Seminar

Date

• George Gollin

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Hijacking Liberia and Other Acts of Piracy: Diploma Mills in a Networked World"

Sep 21

• Jill Blackmore

Deakin University, Australia

"Gender and Leadership in Higher Education"

Sep 29

• Larry Leslie

University of Georgia

"Academic Capitalism: What's the Impact of Teaching?"

Oct 6

• Carolyn M. Shields

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Leadership Viewed Through a P-16 Lens"
* Powerpoint Presentation  *

Oct 20

• Michael Peters

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

"The Knowledge Economy and Higher Education"

Nov 3

• Timothy Cain

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Organizing and Academic Freedom"

Nov 10

• Barbara Townsend

University of Missouri, Columbia

"Factors Affecting the Success of Transfer Students"

Dec 2

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Spring 2005 Series

Speaker

Institution

Title of Seminar

• Kristopher Olds &
Susan Robertson

University of Wisconsin &
University of Bristol

Constructing New Knowledge Spaces in Higher Education

• Nicholas Burbules

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

The Impact of New Technologies on Knowledge Practices in Higher Education

• Rubby Dhunpath

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Vignettes, Freeze-frames, and Snapshots: Social Science Research in South Africa

• Ed St. John

University of Michigan

Privatization and the Public Interest

• Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw

Syracuse University

Creating & Maintaining Change: It Takes Leaders

• Michael Bastedo &
Stanley Ikenberry

University of Michigan &
University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Public Universities & Governing Boards: Is There a Crisis?

• Janet Lawrence

University of Michigan

Governance and Curricula in Transition: Democratization in Post-Soviet Higher Education

• Thomas Schwandt

University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Issues in the Internationalization, Glocalization, and Grobalization of Evaluation

• 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

• George D. Kuh

Indiana University

Student Engagement: Understanding it, Measuring it, and Grasping the Implications

• Fazal Rizvi

University of Illinois

Higher Education from a Global Perspective

• Denise Green

University of Illinois

Affirmative Action Policy: Competing Interests & the Media

• Michael McPherson

Spencer Foundation

The Future of Educational Research

• William Trent

University of Illinois

The Future of Access and Opportunity in American Higher Education

• Tatiana Suspitsyna

University of Illinois

Intercultural Travel of Ideas

• Debra Bragg

University of Illinois

Academic Pathways to College: What Are the Implications?

• Norton Grubb

University of California at Berkeley

The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling

• Renee Clift

University of Illinois

Longitudinal Studies of Teachers: Lessons Learned

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