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Higher Education Group
Seminar Presentations & Resources
2012-13
The Higher Education Group Seminar series is an opportunity for faculty and students to
exchange ideas, present research findings, and discuss professional development issues.
Performance Funding: Past, Present, and Future
Presenter: Dr. Dan Lang
Date: February 26, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 12-199
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In this presentation, Dr. Dan Lang will discuss the origin of performance funding, the expectations initially held for it, its evolution in terms of human capital and agency theories, why it works, and why it fails.
Dr. Lang will also analyse the apparently declining interest in performance funding and reasons for it, including a series of problems that have become chronic. The seminar concludes with a discussion about the future of performance funding.
Presenter’s Bio:
Dr. Dan Lang is a Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education of OISE. His current research interests include: accountability and performance measurement, student retention, finance, management, budgeting, planning, system organization and policy, inter-institutional planning and cooperation, and history. A full profile of Dr. Lang can be found at http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/lhae/Programs/Higher_Education/Faculty_Staff/Faculty/Daniel_W_Lang.html
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Institutional Performance: Modeling University Governance to Enhance Organizational Strategic Outcomes
Presenter: Dr. Ian Austin
Date: February 12, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 12-199
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External pressure, particularly on research universities, continues to build virtually everywhere. At the heart of this are universities’ performance concerns raised by external stakeholders. Governance has been identified repeated as a performance limiting factor. The leadership and senior administration in universities along with other policy makers spend much of their time trying to address the performance issue, including making adjustments to governance. Yet external stakeholders’ complaints persist.
In this presentation, Dr. Austin will advance a university performance governance model built around agency theory, stewardship theory, stakeholder theory, relational cohesion theory, and organizational learning. It accords with the assertion by Bouckaert and Halligan (2008) and Sarrico (2012) that universities should embrace the notion of governance for performance. The model, therefore, addresses collaboration and control as paradoxes of governance that must be managed in a manner that accepts and accommodates these tensions (Sundaramurthy & Lewis, 2003). It incorporates the expanding base of salient university external stakeholders through governing structures and practices that address stakeholders’ desire for control and needs for specific performance outcomes. It also links governing to organizational/strategic learning on the premise that creating a governance model that maximizes a university’s ability to learn effectively overtime enhances performance. Finally, the model expands the concept of “publicness” in public universities.
Presenter’s Bio:
Dr. Ian Austin is the Head of the Open Campus in Barbados at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and is currently a Visiting Scholar at OISE. Dr. Austin joined the UWI in 1994 when he was first appointed Head of the School of Continuing Studies in the British Virgin Islands. Dr. Austin has a passion for teaching and despite his administrative and leadership responsibilities, he has always been actively engaged in teaching and has taught a number of courses in Management and Finance. More recently he has been a Course Coordinator and an Online Instructor in the Masters in Adult and Continuing Education program at the UWI Open Campus.
Dr. Austin holds a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Virginia Tech. His research interests include governance in higher education, organizational learning, organizational change and workforce development. He is currently writing a book on Governance in Higher Education.
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January 29, 10:30am-12:30pm. Room 12-199
1. An Investigation of Professional Development of the Apprenticeship and Trades Professoriate in 2 Ontario College
Presenter: Kevin Hayes
This thesis presentation will review the literature of professional development, primarily focused on educational institutions, theoretical frameworks including andragogy, evaluation and experiential learning that were used as lenses for the analysis of data and two concepts – Groupthink and Unconscious-Incompetence, that emerged from the data.
The methodology and research questions will be discussed and the findings of the study will be presented along with conclusions and suggestions for future research.
Presenter’s Bio:
Kevin Hayes has had a 36-year career with Ontario Hydro / Ontario Power Generation. Initially he held technical positions in stationary engineering, electrical and supervision. The last 21 years of his career has been in designing developing and delivering management / supervisory training and managing the Occupational Health and Safety Training section.
Kevin holds a Master degree in Adult Education from OISE and is currently a Doctoral candidate in the department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE. Additionally Kevin holds professional designations in Human Resources (CHRP) and Safety (CRSP).
2. Grant Proposals from the Other Side of the Desk – Experiences in Reviewing CFI and SSHRC Proposals
Presenter: Amy Lemay
In September, Amy participated as a member of a Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation Leading Edge and New Initiative Funds. She is currently reviewing a SSHRC Insight Grant proposal. She will share her experiences and the insights she gained as a proposal reviewer.
Presenter’s Bio:
Amy has been working in knowledge mobilization/technology commercialization for more than 20 years. She is the President and Founder of VISTA Science & Technology Inc, a spin-off of Brock University and Niagara College that was originally established in 1998 with pilot project funding from the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program. Since 1998, Amy has worked on projects in all aspects of innovation including knowledge mobilization, technology transfer and commercialization, R&D positioning and impact assessment in all areas of science and technology.
As a PhD student, her research interests include understanding how academic research is used to inform policy and practice in various sectors. She is particularly interested in the social impacts of academic research.
Amy has an M.Sc. in Agricultural Entomology and B.Sc.Agr. in Environmental Biology from the Ontario Agriculture College, University of Guelph and a B.Ed. from Brock University.
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Date: January 21, 5-6pm. Room 12-199
The Multiversity and Democracy
Presenter: Dr. George Fallis, York University
In this special Higher Education Group seminar, we will discuss the role of university in a democratic society, focusing specifically on universities’ impact on the Canadian economy and citizenship.
Presenter’s Bio:
Dr. George Fallis is the author of Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy. He is a Professor of Economics at York University. His research interests include universities and their roles in democratic, post-industrial societies, as well as Canadian higher education policy.
Most recently, he was invited as an expert in flexible degree structures to speak at one of the panel sessions at the Discussing the Discussion Paper: A Symposium on Key Themes Identified by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, hosted by OISE. His full profile, including his contributions to the Ontario higher education community, can be accessed here:
http://people.laps.yorku.ca/people.nsf/researcherprofile?readform&shortname=gfallis
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Date: January 15, 2013 (Tuesday)
Internationalization of Technical Education Institutions
Presenter: Olivier Bégin-Caouette
If universities are considered as leading actors in the globalization of higher education, technical education institutions (TEIs) struggle in their bids to succeed internationally while preserving their uniqueness. Being more dependent on the state and more responsive to their locality, TEIs have developed innovative avenues to internationalize their campuses in order to teach their students global competencies, intercultural sensitivity and working skills relevant to the 21st century.
This presentation is based on a study conducted by Olivier Bégin-Caouette in 2010 on behalf of CEGEP International (Quebec Federation of CEGEP). It will cover the Quebec CEGEP system, the internationalization process taking place in CEGEP and the lessons to be drawn for other TEIs. Four global challenges/opportunities of CEGEP internationalization will be identified and, for each challenge/opportunity, we will examine what internationalization strategies have been put in place. This presentation will provide a comprehensive perspective on an under-studied phenomenon: the redefinition of TEI's locus of action in the global era.
Presenter’s Bio:
Olivier Bégin-Caouette is a PhD student in Higher Education (Comparative, International and Development Education) at OISE. He earned his master's degree at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and a B.A. in Psychology at Université de Montréal. He has published several articles on the internationalization of technical education institutions, the globalization of higher education, educational reforms and the alternative school movement.
Olivier has also worked as an international advisor at CEGEP de l'Outaouais and as a research assistant for the University of Ottawa's International Office. He has completed internships at the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), CEGEP International (Quebec Federation of CEGEP) and the Parliament of Québec.
See the presentation
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Date: December 4, 2012 (Tuesday)
Community Research/Writing Group
This end-of-term seminar is all about peer support and brainstorming!
If you want some help with the topics of your thesis or assignment, please bring along your ideas and questions so we can help each other:
• Formulate/hone our thesis topics,
• Narrow down our term paper’s scopes, and/or
• Look at our research from new perspectives.
Please stay tuned for information about future seminars. If you have suggestions for future seminar topics, or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Wincy Li (wswincy.li@mail.utoronto.ca).
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November 20,2012
Quality Assurance of Doctoral Education in Canadian Universities & Future of Doctoral Education: What Needs to Change?
Presenter: Dr. Liu Li
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The quality assurance of doctoral education has been a focus of concern in Canada’s drive to train outstanding scholars and innovative talents in the Sciences and Social Sciences.
Dr. Liu Li undertook an exploratory qualitative study to examine the quality assurance of doctoral education in the Faculties of Education at University of Toronto, University of British Columbia and McGill University. She will be presenting findings of her current research, which has the objective of answering these questions:
• What is the system of quality assurance of doctoral education in Canada?
• What do Canadian universities do to assure the quality of doctoral education specifically in the field of Education? What are some of the trends?
• What are some problems/issues associated with the quality assurance measures in Canadian universities?
We will have a discussion about the future of doctoral education after the presentation.
Presenter’s Bio:
Dr. Liu Li is a visiting scholar at OISE. She is an Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Graduate Education, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She holds a PhD degree in Managerial Science, specializing in Science & Technology and Education, and has a Master’s degree in Higher Education.
Graduate education, higher education evaluation and research evaluation are among some of Dr. Li’s research interests. She has published research findings extensively in both Chinese and English: Her books The Exploration on the International of Social Sciences Research in China (in Chinese) and Tertiary Education at a Glance: China in 2010 (in English) were published in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
With experience leading projects for China’s Ministry of Education and the government of Shanghai, Dr. Li is currently in charge of a National Youth Project funded by the Ministry of Education, which focuses on the doctoral education of social sciences in world-class universities.
Please stay tuned for information about future seminars. If you have suggestions for future seminar topics, or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Wincy Li (wswincy.li@mail.utoronto.ca).
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November 6
Higher Education in Mercosur (Common Market of the South): Interplay between National and Regional Policies
Presenter: Daniela Perrotta
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Date: November 6, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 6-258 (***Please note the room change!)
Daniela Perrotta is a visiting student researcher who is interested in the relation between national higher education policies and the regional integration policies for higher education within Mercosur.
The main aspects and the historical development of the Mercosur will be presented, with a focus on the regional integration agenda for education from 1991 to 2012. Daniela will analyse the main characteristics of the higher education systems within member states (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – we will not focus on Venezuela as it has only recently joined the regional integration agreement). The assessment of the relation between the two levels of policy-making – national and regional – will help us evaluate the impacts of regional policies on national dynamics and vice versa.
Presenter’s Bio:
Daniela Perrotta is a Political Scientist (University of Buenos Aires; UBA) who holds a Master degree in Social Science, with a specialisation in Education. She is currently a Doctoral candidate of the Social Sciences Program at FLACSO Argentina.
Daniela taught at UBA and coordinates a social extension program called “Identidad Mercosur”. She is currently involved in two research projects: current conditions of intellectual production in Argentina (UBA), and inter-university framework for equity and social cohesion in Latin America (UBA, in collaboration with the European Commission – ALFA III).
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October 23
Labour Relations in Vocational Education Colleges in the Netherlands
Presenter: José Faber
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Date: October 23, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 12-199
As a visiting student from the Netherlands School of Public Administration, José Faber has been researching labour relations of colleges in Ontario from the employers’ – the colleges’ – perspective for the past two months.
In this seminar, José will give us an overview of the Dutch education system and present her research findings. We will discuss how labour relations are organised and what role the unions play in the Netherlands and in Ontario, and what the similarities and differences are between the Dutch and the Ontario systems.
Presenter’s Bio:
José Faber is a lawyer and legal policy advisor with the MBO Raad (the Netherlands Association of Colleges for Secondary Vocational Education and Training). She is involved in strategic development in the field of labour relations for (post)secondary vocational education and training institutions. She takes part in the collective bargaining on behalf of the colleges and is responsible for the legal formulation of the resulting texts. As well, she represents the (post)secondary vocational education and training institutions in meetings with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
José is completing her Master of Public Administration at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in June 2013.
Please stay tuned for information about future seminars. If you have suggestions for future seminar topics, or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Wincy Li (wswincy.li@mail.utoronto.ca).
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October 9, 2012
Orientation 2.0
• Did you miss the Higher Education Group’s Orientation earlier in the term?
• Do you have questions about the program and the courses that are offered?
• Are you interested in getting involved in HEG’s online student-run journal, Higher Education Perspectives?
• Do you just want to come to meet other HEG students and faculty members?
Facilitated by PhD students Amy Lemay and Kamaljeet Singh, we will have an informal discussion and answer any question that you may have.
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Date: September 25, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 12-199
Please stay tuned for information about future seminars. If you have suggestions for future seminar topics, or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Wincy Li (wswincy.li@mail.utoronto.ca).
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Venue: OISE, Room 12-199
Introduction to the HEG Seminar Series
• Welcome by Professor Glen Jones
• Goals of the HEG Seminar Series: how can everyone contribute?
Conferences & Networking – Facilitated Discussion
• What role do conferences play in disseminating knowledge?
• What are the important conferences in the field of Higher Education?
• How do you get involved and submit a proposal?
• How important is networking in our field?
If you have suggestions for future seminar topics, or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Wincy Li (wswincy.li@mail.utoronto.ca).
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