Terry Evans

Dr. Terry Evans is a professor in the School of Education at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. He is recognised internationally for his publications, research and scholarship in doctoral education and policy, and in open and distance education. He is on the editorial boards of ten international journals and is the editor or co-editor of fourteen books including: Doctorates Downunder: key to successful doctoral study in Australian and New Zealand Second Edition (with C Denholm, Melbourne, ACER, 2012); International Handbook of Distance Education (with M Haughey & D Murphy, Bingley, UK, Emerald Publishing); Supervising Doctorates Downunder: keys to successful supervision in Australian and New Zealand (with C Denholm, Melbourne, ACER, 2007)

Jorge Balan

Dr. Jorge Balan is an Argentine sociologist who has published extensively on comparative higher education policy, academic and labor mobility, rural-to-urban and international migration, and regional development in Latin America. He contributes regularly to International Higher Education, a leading newsletter, and has published with Philip G. Altbach a book on World-Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press), with translations published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

He is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he has responsibilities within the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Global Centers program, and is an external researcher with the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, a leading Argentine think tank based in Buenos Aires.

Dr. Balan was awarded a PhD degree in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin and gained postdoctoral awards from the Social Science Research Council in New York and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation. He held faculty appointments with major universities in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and Canada. Between 1998 and 2006 he was Senior Program Officer responsible for the international higher education policy portfolio at The Ford Foundation in New York. He has frequently advised governments, international agencies, and philanthropic organizations on social science research and policy issues. In the last few years he has been a consultant with UNESCO’s regional office for science in Latin America, based in Montevideo, Uruguay and was a member of the Research Advisory Committee of The Lumina Foundation, in Indianapolis.

Renate Sadrozinski

Renate Sadrozinski, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist who has undertaken cross-cultural research in graduate/doctoral education for CIRGE. She received her PhD at the University of Bremen, Germany in sociology. In Germany Dr. Sadrozinski was the director of research of the Equal Opportunity Office of the state of Hamburg. She has published several books and many articles and reports in the areas of women and careers in the public service, battered women, immigrant women, and women’s health. She has been working with the European University Institute to customize the CIRGE survey for their use and for later comparison of their results with CIRGE survey results. She directed the PhDs in Art History – Over a Decade Later study and had worked on the PhDs—Ten Years Later project.

William Zumeta

Dr. William Zumeta joined the Evans School faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle in the fall of 1985. He served as associate dean from 2001-05 and acting dean from March-August in 1988. He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, University of California-Los Angeles, and the Claremont Graduate University. In addition to his faculty appointments, Zumeta is an Associated Scholar of the Program on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany (SUNY); Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education; and a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute.

Zumeta teaches in the areas of policy analysis and public policies toward education and higher education. His research interests focus on higher education and worker training policies and higher education finance and accountability. Outside of academia, Zumeta has been employed by or consulted with various private and nonprofit organizations, universities, and federal, state, and local government agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy and a MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a BA in political science from Haverford College.

Angela Ginorio

Dr. Angela Ginorio is associate professor in Women Studies, and adjunct associate professor in the Departments of Psychology and American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle. She teaches courses on “Women and/Science,” “Issues for ethnic minorities and women in science and engineering” and “Women and Violence.”

She developed and directed the Rural Girls in Science Program that operated out of the University of Washington from 1992-2006. She just finished work as P.I. of the Sloan Foundation funded Interdisciplinary Social Science Approaches to the Participation of Ethnic Minorities in STEM. Her scholarship focuses on ethnic minorities and women in STEM, access issues in education for Latino/as and first-generation college students, and violence against women. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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Elizabeth Rudd

Dr. Elizabeth Rudd is a social science analyst in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research, Division of Program Evaluation.

Dr. Rudd is an experienced evaluator of innovative doctoral education programs funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to promote interdisciplinary research. She is currently evaluating a new Ph.D. program that brings together lab scientists, ecologists, and engineers and builds the capacity of American Indian tribes to establish renewable energy systems.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life at the University of Michigan, Dr. Rudd studied maternity and family leave among women engineers and factory workers. Publications stemming from this work include Changing Landscapes of Work and Family in the American Middle Class: Reports from the Field (2008). Her essay “Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America,” in M. Pitt-Catsouphes and E. Kossek (Eds.) Work-Family Encyclopedia, is available online. See more

Dr. Rudd’s Ph.D. thesis (U.C. Berkeley, 1999) investigated changing problems of work and family in former East Germany. It was based on qualitative fieldwork in Germany and in-depth interviews with more than 80 individuals. This work was published in Ethnos and Gender & Society.

Patricia Novick

Dr. Patricia Novick has been a corporate executive, consultant, trainer, and coach for more than three decades, specializing in the intersection between leadership and personal effectiveness. She was Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at McDonald’s and Executive Director of the Social Venture Network, an organization of CEOs of large, socially-conscious businesses.

She has advised leaders of organizations that include the Chicago Tribune, Westinghouse, the City of San Francisco, and Catholic Healthcare West. She founded and directed the first degree-granting program in holistic health in the United States. She has been a research and teaching fellow at institutions that include Harvard University, the Center for Urban Research and Leadership, and McCormick Theological Seminary.

Myan Baker

Dr. Myan Baker is a pioneer in the field of organizational evolution and specializes in supporting innovation by conceptualizing and implementing change-related systems strategies, models and processes that emphasize shifting mindsets and re-framing relationships. She has consulted to leaders of more than 400 organizations, networks and alliances, including private sector corporations and e-businesses, national and international collaborations, governments and related agencies, academic and research institutions, and a wide array of non-profit organizations.

She is noted for her capacity to focus on the future and to infuse organizational and leadership cultures with practical new ideas and creative methods.

Susan Wright

Dr. Susan Wright is professor of Educational Anthropology – Department of Education at at Aarhus University – Denmark. Her research interests focus on Internationalization and Globalization of Higher Education.

Latest Publications

2012 (co-authors Rebecca Boden and Penelope Ciancanelli) ‘Trust Universities? Governance for Post‑Capitalist Futures’ Journal of Co-operative Studies 45(2): 16-24.

2012 ‘Ranking universities within a globalised world of competition states: to what purpose, and with what implications for students?’ in Hanne Leth Andersen & Jens Christian Jacobsen (eds) Uddannelseskvalitet i det 21. Århundrede, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, pp: 79-100.

2012 (co-author Jakob Williams Ørberg) ‘The double shuffle of university reform – the OECD/Denmark policy interface’ in Atle Nyhagen and Tor Halvorsen (eds) Academic identities – academic challenges? American and European experience of the transformation of higher education and research. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Press.

2011 (co-editors Cris Shore and Davide Peró) Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power, EASA Series. Oxford: Berghahn.

2011 (co-author Sue Reinhold) ‘“Studying through”: a Strategy for Studying Political Transformations. Or Sex, Lies and British Politics’ in Cris Shore, Susan Wrightand Davide Peró (eds) Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power, EASA Series. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 86-104.

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