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 SIMON MARGINSON, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Simon Marginson from the University of Oxford is Director of theESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Editor-in-Chiefof Higher Education. He is also a Lead Researcher with the Higher Schoolof Economics in Moscow, and a Professorial Associate of the University ofMelbourne. Professor Marginson is one of the most cited scholar-researchersin the world in the field of higher education studies. His research is focusedprimarily on global and international higher education, higher education in EastAsia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and socialinequality.
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: WHATARE THEY, HOW ARE THEY VALUED, AND HOW CANTHEIR VALUE BE ENHANCED IN RUSSIA?
Higher education carries out a broad range of social and economic functions. It formspeople, or rather it helps people to form themselves. It helps to build relational humansociety. It provides conditions for economic activity; not just by graduating peoplewith diverse occupational skills and qualifications but also people with social capital,information and expertise. It also produces, organizes, disseminates and reproduces formalknowledge. It fosters criticism and civil discussion and at certain times in history this rolehas been very important. It also furthers global cooperation. These functions take the formof both individualized and collective outputs or ‘goods’, and are expressed at local, nationaland global levels. All else being equal, in large scale high participation systems of highereducation, as in Russia today, these many ‘goods’ contributed by higher education oughtto be greatly enhanced. But a crucial issue is how the contributions of higher educationare valued or ordered. Measurement, legitimacy and hierarchy all enter the contributionsequation. Arguably, and despite the fact that higher education in Russia has tremendouspotential, the system of valuation diminishes rather than enhances the socially recognizablecontributions of higher education in Russia today.
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.png) LAURA PERNA, Executive Director, Penn AHEAD, University ofPennsylvania, USA
Laura W. Perna is James S. Riepe Professor, Executive Director of the Alliancefor Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD) and chair of the Higher EducationDivision of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania(Penn). Professor Perna served as President of the Association for the Studyof Higher Education (ASHE) and Vice President of the American EducationalResearch Association’s Division (Postsecondary Education). She is now servingas editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Dr. Perna’sresearch examines the ways that social structures, educational practices, andpublic policies promote and limit college access and success, particularly forgroups that continue to be underrepresented in higher education.
IMPROVING EQUITY IN THE OPPORTUNITY FORHIGH-QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher education is often viewed as a mechanism for promoting social and economicmobility. But, despite considerable investments by governments, philanthropicorganizations, and other entities, the opportunity to enroll in and complete high-qualityhigher education continues to be highly inequitable in many nations. To improve equity inhigher education opportunity and outcomes, we must consider the structural barriers thatlimit the extent to which all students have what is required to enroll and succeed in highereducation: the financial resources to pay the costs, the academic readiness to completecurricular requirements, the knowledge and support to navigate complex systems andprocesses, and the availability of accessible high-quality higher education options. Wemust also consider the ways that higher education contributes to the reproduction of socialand economic inequality. This presentation discusses emerging approaches to addressingthese systemic and structural barriers.
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.png) MITCHELL STEVENS, Associate Professor of Education and Sociology, StanfordUniversity, USA
Mitchell L. Stevens is Associate Professor and Faculty Chair of the EducationEnterprise program at Stanford University. He has written scholarly articles for avariety of academic journals and editorial for the Chronicle of Higher Education,Inside Higher Education, and the New York Times. Professor Stevens studieseducational decision making, the quantification of academic performance, andalternative educational forms. He is the author of award-winning studies ofhome education and selective admissions. Professor Stevens also co-convenesthe project Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education.
UNIVERSITIES AS PECULIAR ORGANIZATIONS
What is a university? I integrate recent social-science scholarship to appraise universitiesas peculiar organizations, on three dimensions. Universities are positionally central to theinstitutional order of modern societies, providing working links between state, market,civil society and private-sphere organizations. They are polysemic, embodying civic,economic, and sacred meanings simultaneously. And they are quasi-sovereign, enjoying asubstantial margin of jurisdiction over their own affairs. These peculiarities help to explainthe remarkable durability of universities as organizations, and render them only partlycomprehensible with the tools of any one social-scientific paradigm.
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.png) JOHN MEYER, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Stanford University,USA
John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at Stanford. He hascontributed to organizational theory, comparative education, and the sociologyof education. He has studied the impact of global models of society (WorldSociety: The Writings of John W. Meyer, Oxford 2009). Main foci have been onthe worldwide expansion of education, and the worldwide expansion of science(Drori, et al., Science in the Modern World Polity, Stanford, 2003). Recent projectsare on the organizational impact of globalization (Drori et al., Globalization andOrganization, Oxford 2006; Bromley and Meyer, Hyper-Organization, Oxford2015). He now studies curricular patterns in education, and the expansion ofmanagerialism.
HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEOLIBERAL WORLDSOCIETY AND BEYOND
Higher education expanded rapidly worldwide after World War II. At the beginning of theperiod, there were many doubts about its contribution to development. These negativeassessments receded over time, and changed to positive ones with neoliberal globalhegemony. In particular, many social effects of higher education were reconceptualized aseconomically valuable “service sector” activities. Recent global attacks on neoliberalism –and on its higher educational component – may alter these trends.
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Roundtable. Regional Analytics and Higher Education Policy
Chair: Gabdrakhmanov N. (NRU HSE, Moscow)
The roundtable will discuss the problems of the development of higher education in the regions ofthe Russian Federation in conditions of intensive educational and labor migration, the formationof stable flows of applicants and graduates. Positioning and competitiveness of regional highereducation systems. A series of analytical reports on regional higher education systems will bepresented. The outcome of the discussion of the problems presented with invited experts and participantsin the roundtable should be recommendations on developing strategies for the developmentof regional universities and regional higher education systems, taking into account existingsocio-economic resources, demographic characteristics and geographical location.
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Special session. Economics of Higher Education: Assessing Universities’ Efficiency,Performance and Impact to Socio-Economic Development
Chair: Egorov A. (NRU HSE, Moscow
The special session will feature speeches of two specially invited guests of the conference –the leading European researchers in the field of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness ofeducational institutions – Tommaso Agasisti (Polytechnic University of Milan) and Ana Camanho(University of Porto).
- Agasisti T. (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy) Evaluating the Higher Education Productivity of Chinese and European “World-Class” UniversitiesUsing Meta-Frontier Approach
- Camanho A. (University of Porto, Portugal) The Performance of Education Systems in the Light of Europe 2020 Strategy
During the session the results of the “Efficiency, performance and impact of HEIs” projectconducted by HSE Laboratory for Universities Development in cooperation with Departmentof Management, Economics & Industrial Engineering of Polytechnic University of Milan will bepresented.
- Shibanova E. (NRU HSE, Moscow), Agasisti T. (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy) Degree of Autonomy, Performance and Efficiency: and Empirical Analysis of Russian Universities in2014-2018
- Agasisti T. (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy), Abalmasova E., Shibanova E., Egorov A.(NRU HSE, Moscow) The Causal Impact of Performance-based Funding on Universities Performance: QuasiexperimentalEvidence from Russian HE
- Agasisti T. (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy), Egorov A., Maximova M. (NRU HSE,Moscow) Do Merger Policies Increase Universities’ Efficiency? Evidence from a Fuzzy RegressionDiscontinuity Design
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