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Global Shifts in Higher Ed - Why Bologna Matters to Your College The "Bologna Process", under which European higher education is being transformed and "harmonized", has attracted the attention of some graduate deans and admissions officials, but it is likely to affect decisions and policy in just about every part of American higher education. Yet Bologna remains largely a mystery to many academic administrators. On Tuesday, February 26, at 1 p.m. Eastern, Clifford Adelman – one of the leading researchers on higher education – will offer an overview on Bologna to bring you and your colleagues fully up to speed. He will outline why he believes Bologna – while still a work in process – will be the dominant global model of higher education within a decade, and what you can do to prepare. Among the topics he will cover:
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Clifford Adelman will make a 30-minute presentation, which will be followed by a session in which he will answer questions posed by participants. The entire event will last one hour. |
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The "Global Shifts in Higher Ed - Why Bologna Matters to Your College" audio conference costs $199 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. Register early – through Friday, February 15 –– and the cost is only $149. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed information about how to dial in. A day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with the presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate. |
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About the presenter: Clifford Adelman taught at Roosevelt University, City College of New York, and Yale University, and served five years as associate dean and assistant academic vice president at the William Paterson College of New Jersey before coming to the U.S. Department of Education in 1979. He managed higher education issues for A Nation at Risk (1983) and conducted the research on which its high school curriculum recommendations were based. He designed, managed, and served as amanuensis for the higher education follow-up, the Involvement in Learning report (1984), which has been cited as responsible for kick-starting the assessment movement in higher education. He conducted studies of assessment in the late 1980s, then took on the task of building, editing and analyzing the major national longitudinal studies data bases. He wrote four reference volumes and eleven monographs in the course of this effort, including Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991); Women and Men of the Engineering Path (1998); Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor´s Degree Attainment (1999), A Parallel Postsecondary Universe: the Certification System in Information Technology (2000) and Moving Into Town–and Moving On: the Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students (2005). The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College (2006) was the last of Cliff´s studies for the department. Since October 2006 he has been a senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, working principally on international higher education projects. A member of the European Association for Institutional Research since 1992, he has given papers at EAIR forums on comparative topics ranging from the position of women in engineering to European newspapers´ treatment of higher education reform. His The Bologna Club: What U.S. Higher Education Can Learn from a Decade of European Reconstruction will be published by the Institute for Higher Education Policy with support from the Lumina Foundation for Education this spring. About Inside Higher Ed: |