Resource Persons	Africa Higher Education Collaborative (AHEC)
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The resource person will serve as mentor, and advise AHEC scholars on their work which matches the resource person’s own interests and expertise. The AHEC scholars are encouraged to communicate with the resource persons who bring extensive experience in equity and access to higher education issues and related fields to the AHEC process.

Hoda Elsadda Paramasvaran Pillay Patti McGill Peterson Sabine O’Hara

Philip G. Altbach Redouane Assad Sarah Guri-Rosenblit D. Bruce Johnstone Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi Habtamu Wondimu

Teshome Yizengaw Alemneh Patrick Clancy Molatlhegi "Chika" Seehole Jane Knight Gaële Goastellec Milton Chen

Hoda Elsadda Professor, and Co-director of CASAW University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures United Kingdom

Hoda Elsadda currently holds a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University.  She is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a collaborative project between the Universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and Durham.  In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women's studies published in Arabic. In 1997 she founded (and was Director between 1997-2000; and 2004-2005) the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization based in Egypt which brings together researchers and activists focusing on rereading Arab cultural history from a gender-sensitive perspective. She has co-authored and edited several books in Arabic on gender and Arab cultural history. Amongst her articles in English: “Imaging the `New Man': Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century” in JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3.2 (Spring 2007)pp. 31-55;  “Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 4:1 (2006) pp.1-28; “Discourses on Women's Biographies and Cultural Identity: Twentieth Century Representations of the Life of `Aisha Bint Abi Bakr,” in Feminist Studies, 27:1 (Spring 2001), pp.37-64. She is Associate Editor of the Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Women in Muslim Cultures published by Brill since 2006,  member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES) since 2005, a Consultant Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Second Edition, member of the Advisory Committee, The Anna Lindh Euro- Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures since 2004, member of The National Council for Human Rights in Egypt (2004-2005), member of the Advisory Board of the Global Fund for Women since 2005, member of the March9 Group in Egypt since 2003, and member of the Core Team of The Arab Human Development Report, UNDP in 2003.

Paramasvaran Pillay Visiting Professor University of Witwatersrand Department of Education, School of Public & Development Management South Africa

Paramasvaran (Pundy) Pillay is a Visiting Professor at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg in the Faculty of Education and the School of Public and Development Management. He is an Economist with research interests in education, particularly higher education, labor markets, poverty and public finance. Previous positions include being Senior Economist at RTI International; Executive Director of the Sizanang Centre of Research & Development, a not-for-profit research agency in Pretoria; Head of the Policy Unit, Office of the President, South Africa; and Director, Financial & Fiscal Commission, South Africa. As a consultant he has worked extensively in Africa and Asia including South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zambia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Iran.

Patti McGill Peterson Senior Associate Institute for Higher Education Policy Washington, D.C. USA

Patti McGill Peterson is currently Senior Associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) whose mission is to increase access and success in postsecondary education around the world through research and innovative programs that inform key decision makers in shaping public policy and supporting economic and social development. Prior to joining IHEP, she served as Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and Vice President of the Institute of International Education from 1997 to 2007. Peterson is President Emerita of Wells College and St. Lawrence University where she held presidencies from 1980 to 1996. She has served as Chair of the U.S.-Canada Commission for Educational Exchange, National Women’s College Coalition, American Council on Education’s Commission on Governmental Affairs, Public Leadership Education Network, Salzburg Seminar on International Academic Mobility, and is a past president of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York.  Previously, Dr. Peterson was Senior Fellow at Cornell University’s Center for Public Affairs where her work focused on the nonprofit sector and its influence on public policy. She has held teaching positions at the State University of New York and at Syracuse University.

Dr. Peterson holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.  Her Masters and Doctoral degrees are from the University of Wisconsin.  She did post-doctoral study at Harvard University.  Her current board memberships include the University of Wisconsin’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs, Council of International Educational Exchange and the Roth Endowment.  She speaks and publishes on the subjects of U. S. and international higher education and public policy as it relates to higher education and third-sector organizations.

Sabine O’Hara Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Vice President, Institute of International Education Washington D.C. USA

Sabine O’Hara serves as Executive Director, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) and Vice President, Institute of International Education (IIE). A respected author, researcher and professor, Dr. O’Hara is well known for her expertise in sustainable economic development and global education. She has lectured around the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Tunisia and the UK, and has also developed and taught various undergraduate and graduate courses, many related economic development, sustainability and economics and ethics. Prior to joining CIES/IIE, Dr. O’Hara served as the 10th President of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Her earlier experience includes faculty and administrative positions at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, as visiting scholar at Harvard University and director of public policy for the New York State Council of Churches. Dr. O’Hara is a native of Germany and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Gottingen, where she also received a doctorate in environmental economics. An active scholar and advocate for higher education, she serves on the board of directors of several national organizations, including the United States Society of Ecological Economics, and the Association for Social Economics.

Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and served as editor of the Review of Higher Education and as an editor of Educational Policy.  Currently, he is editor of Greenwood Studies in Higher Education and the RoutledgeFalmer Dissertation Series on Higher Education.

Dr. Altbach holds the B. A., M. A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he directed the Comparative Education Center, and chaired the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy.   Dr. Altbach has been a Fulbright Scholar in India, Malaysia and Singapore, an Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong and is a Guest Professor at the Institute of Higher Education at Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China.

Dr. Altbach has published widely on higher education, comparative education, and on publishing and knowledge distribution. Among his books are The International Academic Profession: Portraits from 14 Countries, International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, Comparative Higher Education, The Knowledge Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Distribution of Knowledge, American Higher Education in the 21st Century, Scientific Development and Higher Education in Newly Industrializing Countries, Comparative Education, Student Politics in America, and others.  His books have been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Turkish, and Spanish. 

Redouane Assad Administrator and Chief Officer Department of Higher Education, Training, and Scientific Research Ministry of National Education Morocco

Redouane Assad is currently Chief Officer within the Moroccan Department of Higher Education, Training, and Scientific Research. He is an Economist of education, with research interests in quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Middle East and North of Africa (MENA) higher education system. Dr ASSAD focuses on higher education public finance, student financial aid, access and equity. Additionally, Dr. Assad’s research interests include Econometrics and Physics. Prior to his current position he was a Project Manager in the Department of Higher Education, Training, and Scientific Research responsible for ‘‘Projects and Requests services”. He was also a teacher of Numeric Simulation and its application to physics in Morocco, and a teacher of physics in Canada.

Dr. ASSAD holds a Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees in physics from Morocco and Master of Arts in Economics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.  He is a Fulbright New Century Scholar (2007-2008).

Current Memberships: Society of Economics of Education- New York, USA; African Studies Working Group - New York, USA; Education and Training Association-Morocco; Moroccans Economists Forum. Select Publications ·         University education in Morocco during the period 1980-2004: beyond numbers. R ASSAD and N. E. Mustaphi. Repères et perspectives (2005), Vol 7, pp 103-124. ·         Educational Production Functions: an Application to a Primary School.          R ASSAD, M. N. Mustaphi & S. Mishner, “Repères et perspectives”, Vol 10,  2007. ·         Financing higher education system in Morocco: evaluation and perspective.         R ASSAD, Submitted for publication (acceptated, 2007).

• Higher education in Morocco between financial crisis and access, equity, and quality challenges

R. ASSAD, Chapter book project (2008).

Dr. Sarah Guri-Rosenblit is a Professor at the Department of Education and Psychology at the Open University of Israel. She is heading the master degree program on "Technology and Learning Systems".  She received her PhD from Stanford University in 1984 in education and political science. In the last fifteen years most of her studies are conducted in the field of comparative research of higher education systems with a special emphasis on distance education.  She published books and dozens of articles in this field. 

She has participated in the last decade in many national and international forums related to various aspects of higher education. From 1995 to 1999 she was the director of the "Rethinking Higher Education Program" co-sponsored by three venerable Israeli institutions: The Academy of Sciences, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Council for Higher Education. In the last decade she was a member of several committees nominated by the Israeli Council for Higher Education for examining various aspects of broadening access to higher education and accreditation.  She was an appointed fellow in 1995 to the Salzburg Seminar on "Higher Education: Institutional Structures for the 21st Century", and a member of the task committee on "Past, Present and Future of Liberal Education" nominated in 2000 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  Between 2003-2007, she is a member of the Scientific Committee of Europe and North America in the UNESCO Forum of Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. She was one of the 30 Fulbright New Century Scholars in 2005/6 in the program dedicated to the theme of: "Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response". In September 2005 she was awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation a residency at Bellagio Study and Conference Center. She returns with a group of Fulbright colleagues to the Bellagio Study Conference Center in May 2008 to complete a book on Access and Equity in Higher Education.

Select Publications

• Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2007). Higher Education in the 21st Century: Seven Pairs of Contrasting Trends. In: J. Enders. & F. van Vught (Eds.), Towards a Cartography of Higher Education Policy Change. University of Twente: Center of Higher Education Policy Studies, 307-314.
• Guri- Rosenblit, S., Sebkova, H. & Teichler, U. (2007). Massification and Diversity of Higher Education Systems: Interplay of Complex Dimensions, Higher Education Policy, 20, 373-389.
• Clancy, P., Eggins, H., Goastelec, G., Guri-Rosenblit, S., Nguyen, P. N. & Yizengaw, T. (2007). Comparative Aspects on Access and Equity. In: P. G. Altbach & P. McGill, (Eds.). Higher Education in the new Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 35-55.
• Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2005). Eight Paradoxes in the Implementation Process of E-Learning in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, 18, 5-29.
• Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2005). 'Distance Education' and 'E-learning': Not the Same Thing, Higher Education, 49 (4), 467-493.
• Guri-Rosenblit, S. (1999). Distance and Campus Universities: Tensions and Interactions: A Comparative Study of Five Countries, Oxford: Pergamon Press & International Association of Universities (298 pp).

D. Bruce Johnstone is Distinguished Service Professor of Higher and Comparative Education Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he specializes in higher education finance, governance, and policy formation, and in international comparative higher education. He is director of the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project, a multi-year, foundation-supported examination into the worldwide shift of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students. In a 25-year administrative career, Dr. Johnstone has held posts of vice president for administration at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the State University College of Buffalo, and chancellor of the State University of New York system, the latter from 1988 through 1994. He has written or edited some 100 books, monographs, articles, book chapters, and book reviews. He is best known for his works on the financial condition of higher education, the concept of learning productivity, student financial assistance policy, system governance, and international comparative higher education finance. Johnstone has served as a director of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association of System Heads (president 1992-1994), and the College Board (chairman, 1992-1994). He is a trustee of D'Youville College, and has served on the boards of numerous organizations in Buffalo. He holds a BA in economics from Harvard, an MAT from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Minnesota. He has honorary doctorates from California State University San Diego, Towson State University, and D'Youville College.

Dr. Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi is a Full Professor at California State University, Fresno where he served as Chair of the Africana and American Indian Studies program from 2002-2006.  He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; an M.A. degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany; and a B.A. (honors) degree from the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. Previously, he served as Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Africana Studies program at State University of New York (SUNY), Potsdam.  Exemplifying the teacher‑scholar ideal, Dr. Oheneba-Sakyi’s teaching and curricular interests complement his research, often bringing the excitement of discovery into the classroom and involving students directly in his own research.  He has a distinguished career in scholarly research and teaching in the areas of gender and socioeconomic development, social demography of Africa, and social inequality in the framework of cross-cultural and international understanding of the human experience. His distinguished achievement in research resulted in his most recent award as one of 36 Fulbright New Century Scholars in 2007-08 from 25 countries selected to study access and equity in higher education around the world. His project examined how to utilize our knowledge of the best practices of the African indigenous past to embrace a holistic understanding of the present challenges of providing higher education for all Ghanaians across religious, ethnic, regional, and gender lines.

Dr. Oheneba-Sakyi has taught several courses and organized seminars and workshops on issues dealing with multiculturalism and the experiences of contemporary Africans, African-Americans, and other peoples of African descent in the Diaspora.  He has taught courses in African Cultural Perspectives, Contemporary African Societies, Fieldwork and Community Relations, Experience South Africa, Ghana the Land of Our Ancestors, Sociology of the African and African American Family, Race Theory and Social Thought, Population and Development, African History and Social Development, Sociological Research Methods, Africana Cultures and Images, African American Community, Race Relations, Diversity in the U.S., and Critical Thinking about Race. He has served as faculty mentor and advisor to international and multicultural student organizations, and developed and conducted study tours with students to Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Dr. Oheneba-Sakyi’s teaching and research has earned him several prestigious awards including the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; the Chancellor’s Distinction Award for Scholarship and Research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; the State University of New York President's Award for Excellence in Scholarship Relating to Cultural Pluralism; and the Kiwanis Touch of Excellence Outstanding Professor Award, California State University Student-Athlete Advisory Council. He has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, National Academic Honor Society and Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars. Dr. Oheneba-Sakyi has also received numerous grants to support his scholarship including a U.S. Department of Education Title VI International Studies Program grant, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a Nuala McGann Dresher Fellowship, a London School of Economics & Political Science grant, and Instructionally-Related Activities (IRA) grant, California State University.

Select Publications    

• African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-editor, Baffour K. Takyi). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
• Female Autonomy, Family Decision Making, and Demographic Behavior in Africa. Lewiston, NY/Queenston, Canada/Lampeter, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
• Introduction to the Study of African Families: A Framework for Analysis. (with Baffour K. Takyi). In African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century, pp. 1-23. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
• Marital Choice in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing Structural and Cultural Influences in Contemporary Ghana (with Baffour K. Takyi, Nancy B. Miller and Gay C. Kitson). Comparative Sociology, Vol 2, issue 2: 375-391, 2003.
• The effects of couples' characteristics on contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: The Ghanaian example (with Baffour K. Takyi). Journal of Biosocial  Science, Vol 29 (4):33-49, 1997.

Dr. Wondimu is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology, College of Education, Addis Ababa University (AAU).  He has been teaching research methods and social, developmental and educational psychology courses to graduate and undergraduate students at the AAU for almost thirty years. He is also an advisor to several graduate students working on their MA theses in the areas of social, developmental and educational psychology. 

Dr. Wondimu has been a consultant on child rights and labor issues, HIV/AIDS, counseling and related social and educational issues in Ethiopia. His broad areas of research  interests include; social problems, education (mainly tertiary level) and human rights issues.

His past positions include; Chairman of Psychology Department, Head of Academic and Research Affairs Department in the former Commission for Higher Education, member of the AAU Senate and various standing committees in 1990s.  He has also been a former chairperson of Ethiopian Psychologists’, and Educational Researchers’ associations, and served as a Liaison Officer of the Ethiopia Chapter of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa(OSSREA) before accepting the position of resident Vice President of OSSREA in January 1, 2008.

Dr. Wondimu is a winner of OSSREA’s Sabbatical Leave Research Grant to prepare a ‘Handbook of Peace and Human Rights Education in Ethiopia’ (published by OSSREA in 2008).

Select Publications

• The African brain drain: An escalating challenge to development efforts. Journal of Ethiopian Educational Researchers’ Association, Vol.2, no. 1, 1-17 (2006).
• Gender and regional disparities in opportunities to higher education in Ethiopia: Challenges for the promotion of social justice. The Ethiopian Journal of Higher Education, 1, 2, 1-15 (2004).
• Gender and Good Governance with Reference to Affirmative Action in Higher Education in Ethiopia. Paper Presented at the Forum for Social Studies’ Workshop, AA, in Amharic, 2004.
• Family violence in Addis Ababa: Challenges of reconciling culture and human rights in Ethiopia.  Paper presented at the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies.  Hamburg, Germany (2003).
• Higher education in Ethiopia, In Damtew Teferra & P. Altbach (Eds.),   African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2003.

Dr. Teshome is currently working in Washington DC with the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) on an Africa- U.S. Higher Education Collaboration Initiative. Previously, between 2001 - 2005, he was the Deputy Minister for Higher Education, Ministry of Education in Ethiopia. Before that (1998 - 2001) he has served as Head of the Higher Education Academic and Research Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, and Vice-Dean for Administration and Development of Ambo College of Agriculture, 1997 - 1998. Dr. Teshome obtained his Masters (1990) in Soil Sciences and Ph.D. (1994) in Earth Sciences from the University of Gent, Belgium. He is currently Associate Professor in Ambo College and Hawasa (former Debub) University in Ethiopia. As Vice Minister for Higher Education, Dr. Teshome has been instrumental in the recent expansion and reform of higher education in Ethiopia. During his tenure, the number of universities has increased from two to eight, private education has been introduced and mushroomed, and the number of students in higher education institutions has increased from less than forty thousand to about two hundred thousand. His major research interests include expanding access to higher education while keeping quality and standards and re-engineering leadership and management systems. He has attended training and seminars in the UK , The Netherlands, Norway , France , Kenya , USA , Ghana and India in higher education administration and management, quality assurance and enhancement, implications of globalization for higher education in the South, and strategic choices for tertiary education.

• The Ethiopian higher education: Creating space for reform. (BOOK) St. Mary’s UC Press, 2007; 247 pp. ISBN 978-99944-999-4-6
• Comparative perspectives on access and equity, p. 35-54. Contribution to a chapter in the book: Higher education in the new century, Philip Altbach and Patti Peterson (Eds.). 2007. Boston college and Sense Publishers
• Implementation of cost sharing in the Ethiopian higher education landscape: Critical assessment and the way forward. Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 61, No. 2, pp.168-193; Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Implications of the Ethiopian higher education expansion strategy towards quality, equity and reform.  2005-6 Fulbright New Century Scholar, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA; August 2006; 95 pp.
• National and Institutional policies and strategies towards graduate programs in Ethiopian universities.  HERQA Proceedings of the National Conference on Graduate Education Quality Assurance, June 7-8, 2006, Addis Ababa, 12pp.
• Government–Donor relations in the preparation and implementation of the Education Sector Development Programs of Ethiopia. UNESCO, EFA-Global Monitoring Report, May 2006, 26pp.
• The Ethiopian higher education landscape and natural resources education & research. A seminar paper to faculty and staff of Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA; November 9, 2005; 11 pp.; www.cof.orst.edu/international/YizengawPapernov9.pdf  and www.cof.orst.edu/international/YizengawSemNov2005.pdf
• Policy development in higher education in Ethiopia and the role of donors and development partners. Paper presented at the International Expert Meeting-“The Changing Higher Education Landscape”; The Hague, The Netherlands, 23-24, May, 2005.
• The status and challenges of Ethiopian higher education system and its contribution to development”, The Ethiopian Journal of Higher Education, Vol 1, No. 1, 2004
• Transformations in higher education: Experience with reform and expansion in the Ethiopian higher education system. Keynote Address, the Africa Regional Training  Conference: Improving tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things that work, Accra, Ghana, September 23-25, 2003
• Higher Education and Research for Development: From the Ethiopian Perspective. Keynote address in the Symposium on Inter-University cooperation between Mekelle University & the Flemish Universities/VLIR 20-24, September, 2004, Mekelle , Ethiopia.
• Ethiopian Higher Education: Does it need transformation to be an active participant in human development? Paper presented on the National Conference on “Quality of Higher Education”, IER-AAU, October 15-16, 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

Dr. Patrick Clancy is a Professor in the School of Sociology and previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at University College Dublin (National University of Ireland, Dublin). Before joining the staff at UCD he worked for a number of years as a Primary School Teacher, having qualified at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin. His BA and PhD degrees were awarded by University College Dublin and his Master’s degree by the University of Toronto. He main research interests and publications are in higher education; sociology of education; education policy; and social change in Ireland. In addition to a large number of journal articles and book chapters his publications include four national studies of participation in higher education, which were funded and published by the Higher Education Authority.   He has also served a Joint Editor of The Economic and Social Review.

Professor Clancy has served on a variety of National Advisory and Policy groups. These include Adviser to the Action Group on Access, which produced the Report of Action Group on Access (Dublin: Department of Education and Science, 2001) and membership of the Secretariat of the National Education Convention whose report laid the foundation for the White Paper on Education: Charting our Education Future (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Third-Level Student Support(Report of the Advisory Committee on Third Level Student Support. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993) and a member of the Technical Work Group, which supported the work of the Steering Committee on the Future Development of Higher Education (1994/95). He is a Founder Member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, which links leading researchers and research institutes on higher education in Europe and has participated in a number of international studies dealing with issues such as the financing of higher education; private higher education; and the non-university sector.

Selected Publications

• College Entry in Focus: A Fourth National Survey of Access to Higher Education, Dublin: Higher Education Authority, 2001
• Access to College: Patterns of Continuity and Change, Dublin: Higher Education Authority, 1995
• Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration: 1995

Professor Sehoole is Chief Director of higher education planning in the Department of Education where he has been seconded for a two year period. He is an Associate professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he taught Comparative Education and Policy Studies in Education. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2002.  His research interests are higher education policy, mergers, globalization and internationalization of higher education, and he has published a number of articles in these area. 

From 1992 to 1996, Professor Sehoole worked as a researcher for the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, which specialized in higher education policy research and was responsible for the development of alternative higher education policy in support of the anti-apartheid social movements in South Africa and the then government-in-waiting. He has also been involved in a number of major research projects in post-apartheid South Africa, including an Audit of Teacher Education in South Africa, which led to the closure of many teacher education colleges and their incorporation into universities. He served in a team that conceptualed the audit project and the subsequent research that ensued.

Professor Sehoole has received a number of awards in recognition of his scholarly work, including the Dean's young scholar award for (2002) and the University's young exceptional researcher award  (2004). He also received a Rockefeller post-doctoral award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003-04, where he conducted research on Universities and African Modernity and the Fullbirght New Century Scholar Award in 2005/2006.

Select Publications

*    Democratising Higher Education Policy:  Constraints of Reform in Post Apartheir South Africa, RoutledgeFalmer, New York and London. (2005)

*    Pedagogical issues and gender in cyberspace education: Distance education in South Africa, African and Asian Studies, 2.4. pp. 475-496. (2004)

*    Trade in educational services: reflections on the African and South African higher education system, Journal of Studies in International Education, vol 8 No 3 Fall, pp. 297-316.(2004)

*    The Incorporation of the Johannesburg College of Education into the University of the

Witwatersrand, in Jansen, J.D. et. al., Eds.,  Mergers in Higher Education: Lessons Learned in Transitional Contexts, Pretoria, Unisa Press, pp. pp. 54-83. (2002)

Jane Knight Adjunct Professor University of Toronto Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Comparative, International and Development Education Centre Canada

Dr. Jane Knight focuses her research and professional interests on the international dimension of higher education at the institutional, system, national and international levels. Her work and residency in many countries of the world helps to bring a comparative, development and international policy perspective to her teaching and research.  She is the author/editor of many publications on internationalisation concepts and strategies, quality assurance, institutional management, mobility, cross-border education, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and capacity building. In the last ten years she has taken a leadership role in working with international teams on three regional studies/ publications on the internationalization of higher education in Europe/North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America for OECD and the World Bank. Currently she is involved with a similar project in Africa.  Dr Knight has also been the principle researcher and author of several survey projects on internationalization including the worldwide 2003 and 2005 surveys conducted by the International Association of Universities. She is an adjunct professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and serves on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal for the Study of International Education.  As the recipient of awards for outstanding leadership and research in the international dimension of higher education her work has been recognized both in Canada and internationally. Select Publications

• Knight, J. (2006) “Commercial Crossborder Education: Implications for Financing Higher Education” in Higher Education in the World: The Financing of Universities.  GUNI.  Palgrave Macmillan. London.  Basingstoke. UK. pp 103-112.
• Knight, J. (2006) “Internationalization: Concepts, Complexities and Challenges” in J. Forest and P. G. Altbach. (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education.  Springer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. The Netherlands. pp 345-396
• Knight, J. (2006)  “Crossborder Education: An Analytical Framework for Program and Provider Mobility” in J. Smart (ed) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Practice. Springer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. The Netherlands. pp 207-227
• Knight, J. (2006) “ Internationalization of Higher Education:  New directions, New Challenges. The 2005 IAU Global Survey Report” . International Association of Universities, Paris, France. 172 pages
• Knight, J. (2005) GATS and Crossborder Education: Developments and Implications in Asia- Pacific. Background Report for UNESCO Seminar on ´The Implications of WTO/GATS for Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific.” Seoul. Korea

Gaële Goastellec is a sociologist, researcher and head of the politics and organizations of higher education research unit at the Observatory Science, Policy and Society, University of Lausanne, and associated researcher at the Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS- CNRS, Paris). She works on higher education policies in a comparative perspective, taking as a main focal the issue of access and equity. This topic is addressed through a cross thematic research on identities, governance and funding. Her researches fieldworks include France, the United States, Indonesia, South Africa and Switzerland. She has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar fellow 2005-2006 (access and equity group), and a French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lavoisier fellowship) fellow (2004-2005). Researcher invited at the NYU (autumn 2005) and at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa, 2004-2005), she is also part of the Prime European Network of Excellence.

Selected Publications

Articles/books chapters

Baschung L., Benninghoff M., Goastellec G., Perrellon J., “Between cooperation and competition rules. New governance regimes in the Swiss Higher Education system”, in Paradeise C., Bleiklie I., Ferlie E., The steering of higher education systems: a public management perspective, Springer, 2008, forthcoming.

Paradeise C., Reale E., Goastellec G., “Conclusion: universities steering between stories and history” in Paradeise C., Bleiklie I., Ferlie E., The steering of higher education systems: a public management perspective, Springer, 2008, forthcoming.

Goastellec G., Paradeise C., “L’enseignement : une dimension de plus en plus internationale », Cahiers Français, N°344, 2008, forthcoming.

Goastellec G, “Globalization and implementation of an Equity norm in Higher education". Peabody Journal of Education 83(1), 2008.

Goastellec G, « Changes in access to higher education: from worldwide constraints to shared patterns of reform? »,. In: David P. Baker, Alexander W. Wiseman, The Worldwide Transformations of Higher Education. International Perspectives on Education and Society, Series, 9 Elsevier, 2008, forthcoming.

Goastellec G, « Nouvelle Afrique du Sud, nouvel enseignement supérieur : entre équité et performance». Education et Société, 2008, forthcoming.

Felli R., Goastellec G., Leresche J-P.,« Les marchés du travail académique en France et en Suisse : des imbrications différenciées ». Formation Emploi, 100, 2007.

Clancy P., Goastellec G, "Questioning Access and Equity in higher education: policy and performance in a comparative perspective". Higher Education Quaterly 61(2), 2007.

Clancy, H. Eggins, G. Goastellec, S. Guri-Rosenblit, P.N. Nguyen, T. Yizengaw, « Comparative Perspectives on Access and Equity ». In: », in Philip G. Altbach, Patti McGill Peterson, Editors, (eds.) Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. Sense, 2007.

Goastellec G, « La production des normes d’admission à l’enseignement supérieur : l’éclairage d’une comparaison internationale ». In: Leresche J-P, Benninghoff M, Crettaz von Roten F, Merz M (eds.) La fabrique des Sciences. Des institutions aux pratiques. PPUR, pp. 400, 2006.

Goastellec G, « Accès et admission à l’enseignement supérieur ; contraintes globales, réponses locales ? ». Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 5, 2006.

Goastellec G, Note de Lecture, « C. Musselin, Le marché des universitaires. France, Allemagne, Etats-Unis ». Carnet de Bord 11, pp. 66-69, 2006.

Goastellec G, « South African Higher Education at the crossroad of territories.». LESEDI, 2005.

Goastellec G, “ Entre politique des quotas et égalité : L’Université de Californie à Berkeley ”. Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 116, 2004.

Goastellec G, "Le SAT et l’accès aux études supérieures : le recrutement des élites américaines en question". Sociologie du Travail vol 45, n4, 2003.

Goastellec G, “ D’un multiculturalisme l’autre : les politiques universitaires et la justice sociale : une comparaison Etats-Unis-Indonésie ”. In: Georges Felouzis, Les mutations actuelles de l’Université. PUF, 2003.

Reports

Goastellec G., Leresche J-P, Moeschler O., Nicolay A., Les transformations du marché académique suisse. Evaluation du programme professeurs boursiers FNS. FNS, 2007.

Felli Romain, Goastellec Gaele, Baschung Lukas, Leresche Jean-Philippe, Politique fédérale d’encouragement de la relève académique et stratégies institutionnelles des universités. Evaluation du programme “relève” de la Confédération (2000-2004). Les Cahiers de l'Observatoire, n°15, OSPS-UNIL, 2006.

Goastellec G., Government Policies and Strategies in Relation to Access and Equity. An internal paper, Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, 2006.

Goastellec G., Access and Equity: National Report of France. An internal paper, New Century Scholars Program of Fulbright, 2006.

Goastellec G., Access and Equity: National Report of South Africa. An internal paper, New Century Scholars Program of Fulbright, 2006.

Observatory of European Universities (OEU), « Methodological Guide. Strategic management of university research activities ». PRIME, 2006.

Milton Chen Executive Director The George Lucas Educational Foundation United States

Dr. Milton Chen is Executive Director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a nonprofit operating foundation founded by the filmmaker in 1991. GLEF utilizes media, especially its multimedia website (www.edutopia.org), a new magazine, Edutopia: The New World of Learning, and documentary films, to tell inspiring stories of how interactive technologies are transforming America’s schools.

Prior to joining GLEF in 1998, Dr. Chen was the founding director of the KQED Center for Education & Lifelong Learning (PBS) in San Francisco. He has served as a research director at Sesame Workshop in New York, where he worked on PBS children’s series including Sesame Street, The Electric Company (reading), and 3-2-1 Contact (science). He also served for two years as an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests focus on educational innovation and the role of new technologies and media, especially the Internet.

Dr. Chen is a frequent speaker and media commentator on issues of education and the media. He is the author of more than 30 books, chapters, and articles on educational media. Dr. Chen currently serves as chair of the advisory council for the new Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania.  He has chaired NHK’s Japan Prize jury for educational TV and co-chaired the U. S. Department of Education’s Technology Expert Panel. He has been honored by the Congressional Black Caucus, PBS, Sesame Workshop, Parents’ Choice, and the Fred Rogers Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is a trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to environmental conservation, education, and stewardship.

Dr. Chen received an A.B. in social studies from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in communication research from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Ruth, a faculty member in health education at San Francisco State University. Their daughter is a college sophomore interested in public health.

Select Publications

• Chen, M. & Armstrong, S. (Eds.) (2002). Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Chen, M.  (1994). The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV. San Francisco: KQED Books.
• Chen, M. (1994, April 27). South Africa’s fast forward: Beyond bullets, building systems for learning.  Education Week, 28.
• Chen, M. (1994).  Television and informal science education: Assessing the state of research and evaluation.  In V. Crane (Ed.), Informal Science Learning. Dedham, MA: Research Communications Ltd.
• Chen, M. & Paisley, W. J. (Eds.) (1985).  Children and Microcomputers: Research on the Newest Medium.  Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.