6TH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

RECTOR’S WORKSHOP14 APRIL 2015, MOHE AUDITORIUM,

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIAMINISTRY OF EDUCATION

UNDER THE AUSPICES OFTHE CUSTODIAN OF THE TWO HOLY MOSQUES

KING SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL SAUD

6TH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

RECTOR’S WORKSHOPPROGRAM

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Session/Time Moderator Speaker Topic

Keynote Address

08:30 - 09:15Joseph Aoun

President, Northeastern University, USA

What do students want and what are they getting ?

09:15 - 11:00Eric MazurArea Dean Of Applied PhysicsHarvard University, USA

Alexander McCormickDirector, National Survey of Stu-dent Engagement, USAThakib Al ShaalanDean, Faculty of Dentistry, King Saud University, SAUDI ARABIAAbdulfattah MashatVice Rector, King Abdulaziz Uni-versity, SAUDI ARABIAManja KlemencicFellow and Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University, USA

1. Today’s student is not yesterday’s student.

2. What are they thinking ? Why are they there?

3. The importance of learn-ing beyond the class-room.

4. What experiences en-hance learning?

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

The Academic Profession: What is changing and why ?

11:30 - 13:00Jamil SalmiGlobal Tertiary Education Expert, USA

Philip AltbachProfessor & Director, Center for Intl Higher Education, Boston Col-lege, USAChristine MusselinDean for Research, Science Po Paris, FRANCEMaria YudkevichVice Rector, Higher School of Economics, RUSSIALauritz Holm-NielsenSpecial Advisor, Aarhus Univer-sity, DENMARK

1. Changes to the academic career.

2. How universities are adapting.

3. Unique challenges of the 21st century university.

4. The importance of inter-national engagement of faculty.

Luncheon

13:30 - 14:30

6th International Exhibition And Conference On Higher Education (Ieche)Rector’s Workshop Program

The 21St Century University : Challenges To Students And Faculty14 April 2015, Mohe Auditorium

BIOGRAPHY

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BIOGRAPHY

Joseph E. Aoun, an internationally known scholar in linguistics, became Northeastern University’s seventh president in August 2006.

Dr. Aoun came to Northeastern from the University of Southern California (USC), where he served as dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences for six years, and was the inaugural holder of the Anna H. Bing Dean’s Chair.

In the first six months of his presidency, Dr. Aoun articulated a vision for the University based upon several unique strengths, including its signature cooperative and experiential education programs; its success in areas of interdisciplinary research and scholarship; its multifaceted partnerships with Boston; and its rapid transformation in the last decade into a university with stronger global impact and reach.

To build on this momentum, Dr. Aoun initiated a University-wide academic planning process that focused on Northeastern’s excellence and distinctiveness in four key areas of endeavor: experiential learning, fundamental and translational research, urban and global outreach, and creative, aesthetic, and ethical pursuits. The Academic Planning Initiative culminated in a new Academic Plan, which was adopted by the Board of Trustees on June 8, 2007.

Dr. Aoun will be a catalyst for change at Northeastern, by uniting faculty, students, the governing boards, alumni, and friends, to develop a shared vision for the future. A key element of this future vision is to challenge the institution to seek opportunities for scholarship across the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach will become a hallmark of Northeastern.

The president’s proven ability to build productive relationships will also play an important role in the University’s plans. Hebrings great energy and enthusiasm to the opportunity for strengthening Northeastern’s connections to the community, the city, and the region.

Prior to becoming dean at USC College, Dr. Aoun served as vice dean and dean of faculty, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and as head of the academic senate. He joined USC as a member of the Department of Linguistics faculty in 1982.

Dr. Aoun received his PhD in linguistics and philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981; his Diploma of Advanced Studies in General and

JOSEPH E. AOUNPresident, Northeastern University, USA

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Theoretical Linguistics (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies de Linguistique Generale et Theorique) from the University of Paris VIII (France) in 1977; and Masters in Oriental Languages and Literature from Saint Joseph University (Beirut, Lebanon) in 1975.

The president received an honoris causa degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, California, on May 14, 2007.

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BIOGRAPHY

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University.

After obtaining a Ph.D. degree in experimental physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1981, Dr. Mazur came to Harvard University in 1982. In 1984 he joined the faculty and obtained tenure six years later. Dr. Mazur has made important contributions to spectroscopy, light scattering, the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with materials, and nanophotonics.

In 1988 he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been named APS Centennial Lecturer during the Society’s centennial year. In 2007 Mazur was appointed Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. In 2008 Mazur received the Esther Hoffman Beller award from the Optical Society of America and the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers. In 2010 he was elected Director at Large for the Optical Society of America. Dr. Mazur is a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. He is honorary professor at the Instute of Semiconductor Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and has held appointments as Visiting Professor or Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Leuven in Belgium, National Taiwan University in Taiwan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Hong Kong University.

In addition to his work in optical physics, Dr. Mazur is interested in education, science policy, outreach, and the public perception of science. He believes that better science education for all -- not just science majors -- is vital for continued scientific progress. To this end, Dr. Mazur devotes part of his research group’s effort to education research and finding verifiable ways to improve science education. In 1990 he began developing Peer Instruction a method for teaching large lecture classes interactively. Dr. Mazur’s teaching method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally, and has been adopted across many science disciplines.

Dr. Mazur has served on numerous committees and councils, including advisory and visiting committees for the National Science Foundation, has chaired and organized

ERIC MAZURArea Dean Of Applied PhysicsHarvard University, USA

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national and international scientific conferences, and presented for the Presidential Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He serves as consultant to industry in the electronics and telecommunications industry. In 2006 he founded SiOnyx, a company that is commercializing black silicon, a new form of silicon developed in Mazur’s laboratory. Mazur is currently Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for SiOnyx. In 2011 he founded Learning Catalytics, a company that uses data analytics to improve learing in the classroom. Mazur is Chairman of the Instructional Strategy Advisory Group for Turning Technologies, a company developing interactive response systems for the education market. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Panel for Allied Minds, a pre-seed investment company creating partnerships with key universities to fund corporate spin-outs in early stage technology companies, and on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements.

Dr. Mazur is author or co-author of 242 scientific publications and 12 patents. He has also written on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively. In 2006 he helped produce the award-winning DVD Interactive Teaching.

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BIOGRAPHY

Alexander C. McCormick is an associate professor of education at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. He also directs the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), housed at IU’s Center for Postsecondary Research. Since its inception in 2000, more than 1,500 bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada have used NSSE to assess the extent to which undergraduates engage in and are exposed to effective educational practices. Through this work, McCormick aims to enrich the national discourse about quality and accountability in higher education, while also providing institutions with tools to diagnose and improve undergraduate teaching and learning. His research interests center around assessment, accountability, and evidence-based improvement in higher education.

Before coming to Indiana, McCormick served as a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an educational research and policy center. In that role, he led a major overhaul of the Foundation’s widely-used classification of U.S. colleges and universities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in French from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in education and sociology from Stanford University.

ALEXANDER C. MCCORMICKDirector, National Survey of Student Engagement, USA

 

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BIOGRAPHY• Bachelor of Dentistry (B.D.S), 18/7/1990, King Saud University, College of Dentistry,

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.• Graduate Degrees: University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry. USA

1. Certificate of Training in Pediatric Dentistry (Cert. Ped. Dent, 1994), 2. Master of Science (M.S), 31/10/1995, 3. Ph.D. 30/9/1999 G, Oral Biology.

Main Administrative Assignments held:• Currently: Dean, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia• Consultant, Ministry of Higher Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1433-1435)• Consultant, National Commission for Academic Accreditation & Assessment. Riyadh,

Saudi Arabia (1431-1433).• Chairman, Evaluation and Assessment Committee, KSU Translation Center.• Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh,

Saudi Arabia. • Director, College of Dentistry Research Center, King Saud University.• Chairman, Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King

Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. • Chairman, Saudi Pediatric Dentistry Club, Saudi Dental Society, College of Dentistry,

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Main Councils:• Editorial Board Member, Saudi Dental Journal. 2001– until 2014.• Referee for faculty promotion from other universities.• Reviewers for research grants and reports:• Member, Board Council, Riyadh College of Dentistry and Pharmacy. • Member, Deanship Board of Scientific Research, • Member, College Board, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi

Arabia.

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry.

• Publications: over 30 publications

THAKIB ABDULRAHMAN AL-SHALANDean, Faculty of Dentistry, King Saud University, SAUDI ARABIA

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ABDULFATTAH MASHATVice Rector, King Abdulaziz University, SAUDI ARABIA

BIOGRAPHY

• Vice President for Development

• Dean of Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulazizi University March. 2012 till now.

• Dean of Admission & Registration, King Abdulaziz University. Mar 2006 to till March 2012

• Director of Information Technology Center, King Abdulaziz University. Feb 2004 Feb 2006

• Associate Professor of Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University. Feb 2006 to till Date

• Consultant, E-Government, Directorate of the Two Holy Mosques. From 2004 till Date

• Member of Various Academic, Scientific & Technical Committees: E-Learning, IEEE, ACM, Computer Program & System Development, Total Quality Mgmt, Enhance Teaching Methods.

• Member of Trustee Committee: King Mohammed bin Fahd University, Al Yamamah University, Dar Al Hekma College.

• Ph.D.ComputerScience(MultimediaCommunication),LeedsUniversity,UK1999

• M.S.ComputerScience,LeedsUniversity,UnitedKingdom1992

• B.S.ComputerScience,KingAbdulazizUniversity,SaudiArabia1989

• ELTSCertificate,UnitedKingdom1991

• PerformanceAssessmentofAsynchronousTransferMode(ATM)Networks.

• DevelopAlgorithms&ProtocolsforMultimediaSystemsonDistributedNetworksoverATM.

• DesignModelsforVideoTrafficVBR.

• QualityofService(QoS)andSupportforMultimediaTrafficonATM.

• QualityandDevelopmentofPerformancetoolsforNetworkandComputerSystems.

• DistanceEducationMethodologyandDevelopmentofCommunicationSystemforDistanceLearning(E-Learning).

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List of Publication

K. Jambi and A. Mashat, “Distributed Multimedia: A Research Point of View”, Symposium on Multimedia: Tools, Applications and Trends, December 5-6, 1995.

M. Kara and A. Mashat, Statistical Analysis and Modeling of MPEG Sources for Workload Characterization of Distributed Multimedia Applications, Proceedings of the Fifth IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, D. Kouvatsos editor, ISBN 0 9524027 3 4, pp. 16.1-16.10, 1997.

Mashat and M. Kara, The Impact of Synchronizing MPEG Streams on Bandwidth Allocation. Proceedings of the fourteenth UK Computer & Telecommunications Performance Engineering Workshop, KPEW’98. pp 102-117, Editors R. Pooley & N. Thomas, ISBN 09524027 2, July 1998.

Mashat and Kara M, Scene Change Scale: An Indicator of Multiplexing MPEG Streams for the Assessment of QoS Guarantees over ATM Networks. Proceedings of Sixth IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, D. Kouvatsos editor, UK, July 1998.

Mashat and M. Kara, Performance Evaluation of a Scene-based Model for VBR MPEG Traffic, presented in the IFIP International Conference on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems and Networks (Performance’99), Istanbul, Turkey, August1999.

Mashat and M. Kara, Performance Evaluation of a Scene-Based Model for VBR MPEG Traffic, System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, E. Gelenbe Editor, CRC Press LLC, ISBN 0849323576, March 2000.

Mashat and M. Kara, Statistical Characterization of MPEG as a synthetic Traffic For An Application Level Traffic Generator, presented in Al-Azhar Engineering Sixth International Conference, Egypt, September 2000.

Mashat and K. Sheshtawi, E-Learning Technology Framework: Building an Object Oriented Model for E-Learning Application, International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT2002, Doha Qatar, Dec 16th- 19th 2002.

Mashat, Multimedia and Internet Traffic Modeling and Support over ATM network, Al-Azhar University Engineering Journal, Faculty of Engineering, AL-Azhar University, Cairo-Egypt, , Vol. 6, Number 2, ISSN 1110-6409, April 2003.

M. Saleh, A. Mashat, A New Skew Detection Algorithm Based on Base Line Detection, Al-Azhar University Engineering Journal, Faculty of Engineering, AL-Azhar University, Cairo-Egypt, , Vol. 6, Number 3, ISSN 1110-6409, July 2003.

L. Al-Daghestani, H. Al-Nuaim and A. Al-Mashat, The Impact of a Virtual Learning Environment in Teaching Mathematical Concepts for Third Grade Students. February 2004

Mashat and F. Eassa, Component Based Multimedia Workload Generation Tool, Administration Research journal 2004.

M. Kamel, A. Mashat, N Al Begami, H. Brahamtooshi, I Al Bedawi, Monitoring, Surveillance and Control of the Crowds in the Holy Sites using SCADA System,

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NCC’17, April 2004.

O. Tayeb and A. Mashat, Actual E-learning, Seventeenth National Conference on Computer Science, April 2004.

F. Eassa, N Al Biqami, A. Mashat, S. Ghanem, Building an Agent based Search Engine, Administration Research Journal, 2005.

O. Tayeb, S. Sahab and A. Mashat, “Distance Learning: Development and Collaboration Model for King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah”. Workshop on Documents View of His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, February 2005.

Abdel Razek. Mohammed and Mashat. Abdulfattah S ,“Emotion agent Toward Flexile Mobile Learning”, The 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’10), Volume. 2, Page 216-220, July2010, Las Vegas, Nevada-USA.

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, Aboud. Sattar J and AlFayoumi. Mohammad M , “Problems with Three-Party Password-Typed Authentication Key Agreement Scheme”, International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ACC-2010), Orlando, Florida, September 15-17, 2010

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, Abdel Razek. Mohammed, “ Dominant Student Modeling for Web Personalization “, The 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP’11), July 18-12, 2011, Las Vegas, USA.

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “Hybrid Model for the Evaluation of Learner Satisfaction (HMELS)”, Egyptian Association for Educational technology (EAET) Journal, 2011.

Fardoun. Habib M , Mashat. Abdulfattah S, Algazzawi. Daniyal A, “Educative Recourse Patterns Presentation in a Model-Based Instruction E-learning System Design Enviroment”,1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environment (IDEE 2012) and British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), May 2013, Wroclaw –USA.

Fardoun. Habib M , L. Sebastian R, Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “Coaching for teachers: Applying professional Solution within the Educational Enviroment”,1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environment (IDEE 2012) and Journal for Universal Computer Science(J.UCS), May 2013, Wroclaw –USA.

Hassanin M. Al-Barhamtoshy, AbdulRahman Al-Talhi and and Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “Attendance control System In Classrooms Using RFID”, International Conference on New Trends in Education and Their Implications- ICONTE 2012, April 2012, Antalya- Trukey.

Gharib. Tarek F, Fouad. Mohammed M, Mashat. Abdulfattah S and Bidawi. Ibrahim,“Self –Organizing Map-based Document Clustering Using WordNet Ontologies”, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) , ISBN1694-0814 , Vol. 9, Issue 1, No 2 January 2012

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Alhaddad. Mohammed J, Ahmed. Amir, Halawani. Sami M, Altalhi. Abdulrahman H, Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “ A Study of the Modified KDD 99 Dataset by Using Classifier Ensembles”, IORS Journal of Engineering (IOSRJEN), Vol. 2, 2012, ISSN No.2250-3021.

Ragab. Abdul Hamid M, Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “OCET Ontology Cost Estimation Tool”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology & Security (IJCSITS) ,ISSN: 2249-9555 Vol. 2, No.2, April 2012 Pp 237-244.

Ragab. Abdul Hamid M and Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “ Supporting of Lifelong Education Quality Using Adaptive eLearning Methodology”, eLearning Journal (emag.mans.edu.eg), Vol. 9 Pp1-30, Also published in the proceeding og Conference on Continuing Education & Challenges of Knowledge Society, Taiba University, Madinah, 2012

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, Ragab. Abdul Hamid M and Khedra. Ahmed M, “Decision Support Based Markov Model for Performance Evaluation of Students Flow in FCIT-KAU”, ICCIT 2012, Pp406-414.

Prof. Dr. Abdul Hamid M. Ragab, Dr. Abdulfattah S. Mashat and Dr. Ibrahim Elbedewi, “Automated System for Software Project Cost Estimation Based on Ontology Engineering”, ICCIT 2012, Pp325-330.

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, AlFayoumi. Mohammad M, Yu. Philip S and Gharib. Tarek F, “ Efficient clustering technique for university admission Data”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 45, No.23, May 2012

Fardoun. Habib M, Mashat. Abdulfattah S and Algazzawi. Daniyal A ,“ Educative Resource Patterns Presentation in Model- Based Instructional E-learning System Design Environment”, IDEE 2012 workshop.

Mashat. Abdulfattah S, “Learning Algorithms for Text Classification”, Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications (JILSA), Vol. 4, No. 3

Salah. Ahmed, Gharib. Tarek F, Kenlili and and Mashat. Abdulfattah S, ”A Multi-core Tool for Searching Protein Structural Similarities”, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975-8887), Vol. 50 , No. 12, July 2012.

Mashat. Abdulfattah S , Ragab. Abdul Hamid M and Khedra. Ahmed M, “ Decision Support System Based Markov Model for Performance Evaluation of Student Flow in Computers Faculties (case study of King Abdul Aziz University ), The Journal of King Abdul Aziz University (Computing and Information Technology)- FCIT Journal, Jeddah- Saudi Arabia.

Fayoumi. Ayman G, Hui. Joseph Y, Blair. Forrest K, Haojun Luo, Mashat. Abdulfattah S and Zafar Bassam, “ Network Cloud Memory with Virtual Addressing”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. (To be rewiewed)

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MANJA KLEMENCICFellow and Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University, USA

BIOGRAPHY

Manja Klemenčič is Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. She researches, teaches and consults in the area of Higher Education Studies. Drawing from political science and sociology of higher education, she works on the following topics: (i) student experience; student engagement in governance, quality assurance, and institutional research; student engagement in teaching and learning; (ii) quality assurance and institutional research, i.e. data collection, analyses and reporting on and within higher education institutions; (iii) university reform processes: internationalization, institutional profiling, governance; conditions of academic work; (iv) higher education politics, polities and policy-making in national and international contexts; (v) higher education for democratic citizenship and liberal arts education. Her regional expertise is on Europe at large and she has conducted extensive field research in the Western Balkans and in Central and Eastern Europe, including her native Slovenia. Manja’s research is foremost international/comparative. Her major comparative work includes conceptualizing student organizing in higher education context (into representative student associations, such as unions, councils, governments). This theoretical framework allows for international comparisons of student associations and national systems of student representation and student interest intermediation. It has been applied in a Special issue on student representation in Western Europe (European Journal of Higher Education 3(1) 2012), a Special Issue on student organizing in a global perspective (Studies in Higher Education 39 (3) 2014) and in a special issue and an edited volume on student representation in higher education governance in Africa (forthcoming).

Manja’s next theoretical contribution concerns student agency in higher education. Her theory of student agency develops the micro foundations of student behaviour with an aim to connect, advance and revise the multifaceted scholarship on student experience, engagement and employability. It is built on an assumption that student agency is something students can develop in interaction with the environment in which they are embedded. Furthermore, studentship as a liminal and developmental life stage and a life world is highly ‘agentic’ - highly conducive to foresight and action. Much of the research on the effects of college on students tends to be concerned with student satisfaction with various educational services and treats students as passive recipients of education. What this scholarship tends to disregard is student agency as the combination

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of student’s agentic possibilities (“power”) and agentic orientation (“will”) to influence one’s educational and professional trajectory, and life course.Through theory of student agency she seeks to unravel the mechanisms under which students - during studentship - exert their agency in the context of higher education, extracurricular activities and labor market. If what we need are more creative, flexible and entrepreneurial graduates, we should not only be investigating what higher education institutions can do for the students, but rather how we can empower them for purposeful self-formation.

The theory of student agency is the building block of her current book project “Student power” which investigates the implications of the contemporary higher education reforms on student agency and students’ influence over their educational trajectories. The key question is whether the contemporary higher education reforms ‘liberate’ and ‘empower’ or ‘domesticate’ students in various context of higher education environment: teaching and learning in the classroom; extracurricular activities and student life and labor market. The book seeks to make theoretical and empirical advances towards an improved understanding of how students exercise their agency to influence own learning and personal and professional formation.

Manja’s methodological work focuses on developing new methods of digital ethnography and digital phenomenology to investigate student college experience and student engagement. These methods are digital adaptations of the ethnographic and phenomenological approaches and directly engage students as researchers in a form of auto-ethnographic participatory research. Concretely, the idea is to develop interactive digital media platform within existing social media platform (such as Facebook) through which students from the same university can connect and generate digital records of various aspects of their student experience while allowing other students and institutional researchers/university administration to interact with this content. Students will have a high degree of freedom of expression and be prompted to stream their experiences by techniques from reflective and experimental learning approaches. They will also have a full control over what information they share with the community. The basic structure of the STUDEX platform © is tentatively conceived to have three planes: “MeExperience”©, “MyExperience”© and “WeExperience”©, of which the latter two are shared (communal) space and the former is a private space. Quality standards checks for the new methodology include the trustworthiness and authenticity dimensions along the lines developed by Lincoln and Guba (1986).

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JAMIL SALMIGlobal Tertiary Education Expert, USA

BIOGRAPHY

Jamil Salmi is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice and consulting services to governments, universities, professional associations, multilateral banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. He wrote the first World Bank policy paper on higher education reform in 1994 and was the principal author of the Bank’s 2002 Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education”. In the past twenty years, Dr. Salmi has provided advice on tertiary education development, financing reforms and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in about 90 countries all over the world.

Dr. Salmi is a member of the international advisory board of several universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America and the Middle East. He is also a member of the International Advisory Network of the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and the CHEA International Quality Group Advisory Council. Between 2008 and 2011, he represented the World Bank on the Governing Board of the International Institute for Educational Planning. Dr. Salmi is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Diego Portales University in Chile.

Dr. Salmi’s 2009 book addresses the “Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities”. His latest book, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach, entitled “The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities”, was published in September 2011.

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BIOGRAPHY

Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor and director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He was the 2004-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader for the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program. He has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and served as editor of the Review of Higher Education, Comparative Education Review, and as an editor of Educational Policy.

He is author of Turmoil and Transition: The International Imperative in Higher Education, Comparative Higher Education, Student Politics in America, and other books. He co-edited the International Handbook of Higher Education. His most recent book is World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Altbach holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New York at Buffalo,, and was a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer on education at Harvard University. He is chairperson of the International Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Education at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is a Guest Professor at the Institute of Higher Education at Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China, both in China.

He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Institut de Sciences Politique in Paris, and at the University of Bombay in India. Dr. Altbach has been a Fulbright scholar in India, and in Malaysia and Singapore. He has had awards from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has been Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and a senior scholar of the Taiwan Government.

PHILIP G. ALTBACHProfessor & Director, Center for Intl Higher Education, Boston College, USA

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Christine Musselin is the Vice-President for Research at Sciences Po and a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and CNRS. She leads comparative studies on university governance, public policies in higher education and research, state-universities relationships and academic labour markets. Her book, La longue marche des universités françaises published by the P.U.F in 2001 has been edited in English (The Long March of French Universities) by Routledge (2004). A new book, Le marché des universitaires, France, Allemagne, Etat-Unis was published in November 2005 by the Presses de Sciences Po and edited in English by Routledge in 2009. She has been a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999. She was co-editor of Higher Education from 2008 to 2013 and is a member of the editorial board of Sociologie du Travail since 1991. She chaired the Consortium for Higher Education Research (CHER) from 2007 to 2013 and is the President of the French network on higher education studies (RESUP). From 2010 to now she was a member of the board of the AERES (French agency for the evaluation of higher education and research).

CHRISTINE MUSSELINDean for Research, Science Po Paris, FRANCE

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Maria Yudkevich is a vice-rector of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia (HSE) and associate professor at the Economics Department of HSE. As HSE Vice-Rector she is responsible for coordinating the fundamental research and academic development at HSE.

She also chairs HSE Center for Institutional Studies that focuses on both theoretical and applied economic analysis of institutions. The main areas of her interest and research work are economics and sociology of higher education with a special emphasis to faculty contracts, university governance and markets for higher education. She was a co-organizer of several large-scale international research projects that studied different higher education phenomena in comparative perspective (including faculty salaries and academic contracts – based on 28 countries, young faculty careers – 10 countries, university inbreeding – 8 countries, university rankings – 11 countries).

Author of works on economics and sociology of higher education, published in leading Russian and international journals. Coeditor of books based on the results of international comparative projects - «Paying professoriate» (Routledge, 2012), «The Future of Higher Education and The Academic Profession» (Palgrave, 2013), «Academic Inbreeding in Global Perspective» (Palgrave, 2015), “Young Faculty in International Perspective” (SUNY Press, 2015).

Maria Yudkevich is a head of editorial board of “Higher Education and Beyond” – quarterly bulletin which is intended to highlight the transformation process of higher education institutions in Russia and the counties of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The newsletter seeks to present multiple-aspect opinions about current challenges and trends of regional higher education and give examples of the best local practices. The audience of HERB is a wider international community of scholars and professionals in the field of higher education all over the world.

MARIA M. YUDKEVICHVice Rector, Higher School of Economics, RUSSIA

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Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen is The Executive Director of Sino-Danish Center as well as Special Advisor to the Senior Management at Aarhus University (AU). He was the Rector of Aarhus University from 2005-2013. He is President of Euroscience, Vice President of the European University Association (EUA), and member of the Gothenburg University Board. Furthermore, Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen was member of the Danish Prime Minister’s Growth Forum, Vice-Chairman og Universities Denmark, member of the Africa Commission, Vice-Chairman of the Danish Research Commission, member of several OECD expert review teams on higher education, Chairman of the Nordic University Association, Board Member of the Danish National Research Foundation, Rector of the Danish Research Academy, Chairman of the Danish Natural Science Research Council and the Danish Council for Development Research.

Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen has a degree in botany from AU (1971) and was Dean of the Faculty of Science at AU (1976-79) before he became professor at P. Universidad Católica, Quito, Ecuador (1979-81). Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen has spent 18 years working abroad, 12 of these at the World Bank in Washington D.C. (1993-2005).

Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen is Commander of the Order of Dannebrog & Gran Oficial del Orden Gabriela Mistral (Grand Officer), Chile.

Education1971 Mag.scient., Botany and Phytogeography, Aarhus University

Academic career2014- Executive Director of Sino-Danish Center

2013- Special Advisor to the Senior Management, Aarhus University

2005-2013 Rector, Aarhus University

1993-2005 Lead Higher Education Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC.

1986-1993 Rector, the Danish Research Academy

1979-1981 Professor, P. Universidad Catòlica, Quito, Ecuador

1975-1986 Associate Professor, Aarhus University

1972-1975 Assistant Professor of Botany, Aarhus University

LAURITZ B. HOLM-NIELSENSpecial Advisor, Aarhus University, DENMARK

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Leadership positions

2015- Chairman, Danish Nature Foundation

2013- Member, Gothenburg University Board

2013- Chairman, National Committee of Research Infrastructure (NUFI)

2012- President of Euroscience

2012- 2015 Vice President of the European University Association

2011- Member of the Rectors’ Advisory Group

(Coimbra Group)

2010- Member of International Advisory Board, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

2010 Delegate, Nordic Prime Ministers’ Globalisation Forum

2009-2011 Commissioner, the Danish Prime Minister’s Growth Forum

2008-2009 Commissioner, the Danish Africa Commission

2008-2012 Board Member, European University Association

(EUA)

2008-2012 Board Member Euroscience Governing Board

2008-2010 Chairman, Nordic Universities Association

2006-2013 Vice-Chairman, Rectors’ Conference, Universities Denmark

2004- Member, International Advisory Board UANL, Monterrey, Mexico

2000-2001 Vice-Chairman, the Danish Research Commission

1999-2006 Member, Board of Danish National Research Foundation

Institute, Rome

1991-2004 Chairman, Danish Strategic Environment Research Programme

1989-1993 Chairman, Danish Council for Development Research (RUF)

1990-1993 President, Nordic Academy for Advanced Study

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1985-1987 Chairman, Danish Science Research Council (SNF)

1983-1985 Director, Botanical Institute, Aarhus University

1976-1979 Dean, Faculty of Science, Aarhus University

Publications

133 research publications, 39 on issues in higher education, science and technology, innovation and globalisation, and 94 in botany. In addition: congress presentations, abstracts, and notes to the Danish National Encyclopedia.

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