Notes on Contributors
Philip G. Altbach
is the Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, where from 1994 to 2015 he was the Monan University Professor. He is currently guest professor at Peking University and Xiamen University in China and has been an Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and a fellow of the National Science Foundation of Taiwan. He was given the Houlihan award for distinguished contributions to international education by nafsa: Association of International Educators, the Bowen distinguished career award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2010, he was Erudite Scholar of the Government of Kerala. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Altbach holds the B.A., M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He is author of Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Turmoil and Transition, Student Politics in America, among other books. He also co-edited (with Jamil Salmi) The Road to Academic Excellence, (with Michael Bastedo and Patricia Gumport) American Higher Education in the 21st Century, the International Handbook of Higher Education, World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America and other books.
Daniel Basco
is President of Vertex Evaluation and Research, llc and an Adjunct Policy Researcher at the rand Corporation. At Vertex, Basco develops innovative metrics for evaluating programs and policies at the intersection of education, R&D, and innovation. At rand, Basco advises higher education institutions and governments on ways to use better data and evaluation methods to continuously improve programs for undergraduate students. Previously, Basco was a management consultant and researcher supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health He earned his BS in Social Policy from Northwestern University and his MPhil and PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the Pardee rand Graduate School.
Diana G. Carew
is an assistant policy researcher at rand and a doctoral fellow at the Pardee rand Graduate School. Her research areas include higher education, human capital strategic planning, workforce development, and regulatory reform. Prior to joining Pardee rand, she was an economist and director of the Young American Prosperity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, DC.She previously worked for the Export-Import Bank, and for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Isak Froumin
is a Head of the Institute of Education at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia) – the first education graduate school in Russia. His responsibilities also include advising the university strategic planning and international cooperation and he is co-leader of the research project ‘China-Russia Comparative Research Project on Educational Modernization Towards 2030’ (jointly with the China Institute for Educational Science). Between 2012 and 2016, he was an advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of Russia Federation. He led the World Bank education programme in Russia from 1999 to 2011. His World Bank experience also extends to the projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Turkmenistan and India. He has edited or authored more than 250 publications, including articles and books.
Charles A. Goldman
is a senior economist at the rand Corporation and a professor of economics at the Pardee rand Graduate School, and he sits on the advisory board of the Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities. He specializes in the economics of education, skills and workforce needs, strategic planning for education systems, and organization and performance of schools, universities, and systems. He is conducting a series of projects in Texas, all aimed at improving the match between higher education and workforce needs. Building on this work, he is conducting a study of how Australia’s education, training, and workforce development systems can meet the demands of the country’s rapid increase in naval shipbuilding. His work in skills also examines occupational competency requirements and military members’ transitions from active duty to the civilian labour market. He has studied policy and implementation of both basic and higher education in the United States, Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East..
Futao Huang
is currently Professor of the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. His major research fields include university curricular development, internationalization of higher education, and a comparative study of higher education in East Asia. Since the late 1990s, he has published widely in Chinese, English and Japanese in many international peer-reviewed journals, including Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Policy and Management, Journal of Studies in International Education. In recent years, he has been invited to speak at various international conferences organized by the unesco, oecd, eua, daad, German Rectors Conference, Nuffic, nsf and many universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Rita Karam
is a Senior Policy Researcher at the rand Corporation. She specializes in educational policies, educational equity and programme improvement. Currently, she leads two studies investigating the effectiveness of technical programmes, as well as the efficacy of technology-based tool designed to facilitate program planning, advising and job-matching with under-represented youth. For over 15 years, she has been investigating school reform, science, engineering and technology (stem) education, and post-secondary education and workforce preparation using experimental and quasi-experimental methods. She has examined the implementation of such initiatives and their effects on academic outcomes and employment. In her research, she considers various factors such as the complexity of programmes and their coherence with local policies as well as other government policies, and their alignment with cultural values..
Jenny J. Lee
is a professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona in the US. She is also a visiting scholar in the Centre of Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her research encompasses a range of key higher education issues that centre on the internationalization of higher education, including her latest work on international student mobility and their experiences.
Mikhail Lisyutkin
is a lecturer and a head of the universities management studies at the Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics. His current research interests include the dynamics of the universities’ development and decline, universities’ international competitiveness and excellence initiatives in higher education, the development of the higher education systems.
Nian Cai Liu
is currently the Director of the Center for World-Class Universities and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is one of the vice-presidents of ‘ireg Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence’. His research interests include world-class universities and research universities, university evaluation and academic ranking, research evaluation and science policy, globalization and internationalization of higher education. He moved to the field of educational research in 1999, before which he was a professor in polymer science and engineering. He did his undergraduate study in chemistry at Lanzhou University of China and obtained his doctoral degree in polymer science and engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. He is on the editorial/advisory boards of several international and national journals
Pierre de Maret
served as Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ulb) from 2000 to 2006 and was President of the Belgian French-speaking Conference of Rectors, and of the National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium.He is Honorary Professor at University College London and was President of the Society of African Archaeologists (US) and from 2005 until 2009, he was a member of the Board of the European University Association (eua). In 1990, he conceived and launched the unica network, the consortium of the Universities of the Capital Cities of Europe. A member of the Belgian Royal Academy, he holds Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Montreal, Lubumbashi, Tubingen, La Republica (Santiago-Chile), Lyon II and Chisinau. Involved in the early stages of the European Higher Education integration process, he has been actively contributing to it, organising several programmes and serving on the Erasmus Academic Advisory Board for the European Commission.
Simon Marginson
is Professor of International Higher Education at the University College of London’s Institute of Education, Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education and a research leader for The UK in a Changing Europe. Simon has worked at the ucl Institute of Education since October 2013. Prior to that he was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne (2006–2013), and Professor of Education at Monash University (2000–2006). He was the Clark Kerr Lecturer on Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014, and in the same year received the Distinguished Research Award from the Association for Studies of Higher Education in the United States. He is a member of Academia Europaea, a Lifetime Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education in the UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. He is currently researching the public good contributions of higher education, and completing a book with colleagues on the implications of the worldwide trend of high-participation higher education systems.
William M. Plater
currently serves as Research Director for Community Engagement and Civic Learning for the Global Common Good at Laureate Education, Inc., a global network of more than 70 campus-based and online universities in 25 countries, and as Senior Scholar at The Quality Assurance Commons for Postsecondary and Higher Education.Plater is Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties Emeritus at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (iupui) and Indiana University Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Philanthropic Studies and English. From 2012 to 2014, he was Senior Advisor for International Affairs of the wasc Senior Colleges and Universities Commission, where he served as a Commissioner from 2005 through 2011.Heserved as the Indiana University Dean of the School of Liberal Arts (1983–1987), Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties (1987–2006), Acting Chancellor (2003), and Director of the Workshop on International Community Development (2006–2010) at iupui until his retirement in 2010. Before joining iupui, he was Associate Director of the School of Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned BA, MA and PhD degrees in English.
Jamil Salmi
is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice to governments, universities, professional associations, multilateral development banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. In the past twenty-five years, Dr. Salmi has provided advice on tertiary education development, financing reforms and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in about 100 countries all over the world. Dr. Salmi is Emeritus Professor of higher education policy at Diego Portales University in Chile and Research Fellow at Boston College’s Center for Higher Education. Dr. Salmi’s 2009 book addresses the Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities. His 2011 book, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach, was entitled The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities. His latest book, Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals, was published in August 2017.
Genevieve G. Shaker
is associate professor of philanthropic studies in the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at iupui and adjunct professor of liberal arts and women’s studies and she is a fellow of the tiaa Institute. She was an advancement officer for 20 years, most recently as associate dean for development and external affairs for the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, where she facilitated fundraising, communications, alumni programming, and public events. In 2015 she was recognized nationally as the year’s outstanding scholar/practitioner by the Association for Fundraising Professionals with its ‘Emerging Scholar’ award. She is the editor of Faculty work and the Public Good: Philanthropy, Engagement, and Academic Professionalism (Teachers College Press, 2015), which engaged scholars of higher education and philanthropy to explore the intersection of academic work and philanthropic values. She serves as associate editor of Philanthropy and Education, a journal dedicated to building new understandings in an under-researched area.
Bjørn Stensaker
is a professor of higher education, working at the Faculty of Education at University of Oslo, Norway. He has a special research interest in studies of governance, leadership and organizational change in higher education, and he has published widely on these subjects in international journal and books
Lin Tian
is a PhD candidate in the Center for World-Class Universities (cwcu) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, her research interests include functions of world-class universities and internationalization of higher education. She is also a Research Associate on cghe’s global higher education engagement research programme. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, she worked in Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a research assistant (2014–2015) and then began to pursue her doctoral degree there from 2016. Currently, her research interests include functions of world-class universities and internationalization of higher education.
Hillary Vance
is the Director of Southeast Asia Programs and a PhD candidate in Higher Education at the University of Arizona. She oversees the development of University of Arizona micro-campuses across the Southeast Asia region. Her doctoral research is focused on politics and transnational higher education in Cambodia and Southeast Asia. She is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and has experience researching and working in student and programme mobility in international higher education and international education ngos.
Qi Wang
is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education (gse), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu) and research fellow at the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College. She also works as Associate Director for Administration and Research at the allex Foundation (Alliance for Language Learning and Education Exchange), focusing on developing strategy for Mainland China operations. She completed her MA and PhD studies at the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK, from September 2002 to November 2008. She joined sjtu in May 2009 and works at the Center for World-Class Universities. Her research interests include building world-class universities, employability management and skills training, and globalization and education development. In particular, her current research focuses on building world-class research universities from a theoretical and comparative perspective, and how different governments and universities in East Asia and Europe adopt policies to implement this global aspiration.
Marijk van der Wende
is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance. Her research focuses on the impact of globalization and internationalization on higher education. She has published widely on the impact of these processes on higher education systems, institutions, curricula, and teaching and learning arrangements. She is also an affiliate faculty and research associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (cshe) at the University of California Berkeley and member of the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe, behavioural sciences section). She is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of the Open University of the Netherlands, the Board of the Rathenau Institute for Science and Technology in Society, theInternational Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of World Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Graduate Campus Advisory Board of the University of Zurich, the Board of the Amsterdam University College Scholarship Fund (asf Foundation), and Member of the European Science Foundation’s College of Expert Reviewers.
Yan Wu
is an Assistant Professor at the Center for World-Class Universities (cwcu) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu). She has been in the ranking team at cwcu since 2005. Since 2016, she has been responsible for organizing the biennial International Conference on World-Class Universities. Her primary research interests include the ranking and evaluation of universities. She had been responsible for the Global Research University Profiles (grup) project, which started in 2011 and has been developing a database on the facts and figures of around 1200 research universities in the world. The database has been or will be used to produce much more comprehensive and customized comparisons of research universities at a global level. She obtained her bachelor’s (2000) and master’s degree (2003) both in Philosophy from East China Normal Universities.
Ailei Xie
is an Associate Professor at Guangzhou University and the Executive Director of Bay Area Education Policy Institute for Social Development. His main area of research is on social development and education policy, education and social justice. The current focus of his study is on parental involvement in rural schools, and rural students and their success in China’s elite universities. Before joining Guangzhou University in 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Hong Kong and visiting fellow at Cambridge University. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a PhD in sociology of education in the year of 2012.