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Sandra Elman

Sandra Elman is the President of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) in Redmond, Washington. From 2003-2006, Dr. Elman served as Chair of the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions (CRAC) that is comprised of the directors and chairs of the seven regional accrediting commissions. Prior to assuming the position of the President of NWCCU in 1996, Dr. Elman was the Associate Director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Before joining regional accreditation, Dr. Elman held a variety of administrative and faculty positions at the John McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts; the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley. She has published extensively in the fields of public policy and higher education and is coauthor of New Priorities for the University: Educating Competent Individuals for Applied Knowledge and Societal Needs.

She has lectured nationally and internationally on issues related to quality assurance; institutional finance and governance; and the roles of government and business/industry. She is an adjunct faculty member at Oregon State University. Dr. Elman serves as an evaluator for international quality assurance agencies including for the Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Swiss Universities. She is a past Chair of the Board of Trustees of Unity College in Unity, Maine, which is an environmentally focused liberal arts institution. Her academic areas of interest include: accreditation/federal/institutional relations; quality assurance in the U.S. and Europe; governance of public and private higher education institutions; and conflict resolution and international peace. Sandra Elman received her B.A. degree in history and political science from Hunter College in New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in policy, planning and administration from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a 2005 graduate of the Department of Defense National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College.

Presentations: International Experience in STEM Graduate Education and Beyond

  •  The Evaluate-E Project: A brief overview. Presented by Steve Culver, Associate Director at the Office of Academic Assessment & Ishwar K. Puri, Professor and Department Head Engineering Science & Mechanics – Virginia Tech 

Ingrid DuMosch DeHaan

Ingrid DuMosch DeHaan has been working with the CIRGE team as an administrator since 2006.  She also occasionally works as a program assistant at the University of Washington’s Medical Center.  She has had the privilege of living and working overseas, particularly in the U.K., and has traveled extensively in much of Europe as her parents originate from Austria and the Netherlands, respectively.

International Assessment: Developing a Research Agenda for (Post)graduate Education and Collaboration

This article assesses the current state of internationalisation and international experiences, focusing in particular on science and engineering fields. It discusses initial results from a workshop, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and organised by the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education at the University of Washington, to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda aimed at launching and coordinating empirically driven research on international graduate education. It concludes by identifying areas for future research.

Blumenfield T., & Nerad, M. (2012). International Assessment: Developing a Research Agenda for (Post)graduate Education and Collaboration. Australian Universities Review. Vol. 54.  No 1, pp. 72-83.

Download: International Assessment

 

Min, LI

Min, LI is a Researcher Fellow in the Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at the Hiroshima University, Japan.  From 1999 to 2002, she served as a lecturer at the Department of Japanese, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. She earned her BA at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China and her PhD at Ochanomizu University, Japan. Her doctorate research is about job-seeking by university graduates in China. The Expansion of Higher Education and Job scarcity of University Graduates in China was published by the Hiroshima University Press in March 2011. Her current research topic is the reform of graduate schools in Japan and the education of international students. She is also conducting a comparative study on higher education systems, mainly between China and Japan, as well as working on the issue of employment of university graduate and disparities in educational opportunities . Gender differences is another issue of her interest.

Min, LI is a member of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Japanese Association of Higher Education Research, Japan China Sociological Society.

Christian Schneijderberg

Christian Schneijderberg is researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) at the University of Kassel in Germany. He directs the research unit “Innovation and Transfer” at INCHER-Kassel. His areas of specialisation include higher education research, transfer and innovation studies, transfer of knowledge and technology, higher education professionals, university as organisation, doctoral education and training, academic careers and academic disciplines, especially social sciences and humanities. He obtained his Magister Artium (German pre-Bologna equivalent to master’s degree) in sociology and political sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg in Germany. For his PhD he does research on the decomposition of doctoral education and training comparing sociology, political sciences and economics in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He is serving in the Executive Committee of the German Association for Higher Education Researchers. Recent publications (in German only) are on disciplinary approaches to the field of higher education research, higher education professionals, differentiation of the academic profession, and transfer of knowledge and technology.

Barbara Kehm

Dr. Barbara M. Kehm studied German Literature, History and Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) where she was also awarded her doctoral degree in German Literature in 1989. From 1986 to 1989 she worked as a lecturer at the School of European Studies of the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K.

In 1990 she started work as a postdoc researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at Kassel University (Germany). From 1996 until 2003 she was senior researcher at the newly established Institute for Higher Education research in Wittenberg (East Germany) until she was appointed as a professor at INCHER in October 2003. Between April 2004 and September 2011 she also acted as the Director of INCHER. Currently she is mainly working as a freelance consultant and international expert adviser in a variety of countries (including Germany) and she is still affiliated to INCHER.

Kehm’s fields of expertise are mainly focused on internationalisation in higher education, changes in doctoral education, new forms of governance in higher education and new higher education professionals. She frequently is a member of international research project consortia and works comparatively, mainly with regard to European developments.

Barbara M. Kehm is currently the Secretary of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), a European based but global association in the field of higher education research. In addition she is a member of the editorial board of four international, peer reviewed higher education journals. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Siegen (Germany) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki (Finland). Her publications include more than 25 monographs, more than 200 journal articles or book chapters. In addition she has given more than 250 keynote speeches and invited presentations in about 45 countries around the world.

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Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson

Dr. Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson, is since 2008 Dean of the School of Business and Science at the University of Akureyri. He is a physicist with a doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (TechnD) from KTH, Stockholm, 1982. After research, teaching and administrative careers at KTH, the University of Iceland and the Iceland Technology Institute, IceTec, Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson served as scientific counselor with the European Free Trade Association, EFTA, from 1992 to 1994 and at the Icelandic Mission to the European Union in Brussels from 1995 to 1999.

He was member of the Nordic Science Policy Council 1996 to 1999, as chairman 1998-1999. Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson served from 1999 to 2003 as Rector of NorFA, the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study, an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers promoting doctoral education. In 2004 he was chairman of the NorFA Governing Board. In the years 2004 to 2006 he served as vice chairman of IGFA, the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research.

From 2003 to 2008 he was the general director of RANNIS, the Icelandic Centre for Research, a governmental institution supporting research, technological development and innovation, providing professional assistance to the preparation and implementation of science and technology policy in Iceland.

Helena Sebkova

Dr. Helena Sebkova is the director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies (public research institution dealing primarily with applied research in higher/tertiary education) in Prague from 1991. The main areas of her interest and research work focus on quality assurance and quality culture, internationalization with respect to the Bologna process and its priorities, higher education management and governance, respectively, collaboration of higher education institutions with external stakeholders in general and employers in particular. In 2004-2008, she was the national coordinator of the multinational OECD project “Thematic Review of Tertiary Education”, and edited the publication “Country Background Report” elaborated for the project purposes. This major publication on Czech tertiary education also dealt with the doctoral studies, research and development of academic staff and academic profession.