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Global Perspectives on Graduate Education: Proceedings of the Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education Global Perspectives on Graduate Education: Proceedings of the Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education August 30 – September 1, 2007 Banff, Alberta, Canada Table of Contents Foreword The Honourable Doug Horner, Minister, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, Government of Alberta Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools Acknowledgments I. The Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education: Purposes and Products Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools II. From National Best Practices to Global Leadership Strategies A. Best Practices at the Country Level Doctoral Education Richard Wheeler, Dean, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Susan Pfeiffer, Dean and Vice-Provost, Graduate Studies, University of Toronto Authors' Comments and Group Discussion Transition from the Master’s to the Doctorate Jean Chambaz, Director, Institute of Doctoral Training, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Master’s Education Richard Russell, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Adelaide Carol Lynch, Senior Scholar in Residence, Council of Graduate Schools and former Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Colorado at Boulder Authors' Comments and Group Discussion B. Best Practices in Cross-Border or International Program Partnering Joint and Dual Degrees Diana Carlin, Dean-in-Residence, Council of Graduate Schools and former Dean of the Graduate School and International Programs, University of Kansas Robyn Owens, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia Authors' Comments and Group Discussion Other Structured and International Programs Karen DePauw, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State iii University Inter-Institutional Agreements Karen Klomparens, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Michigan State University Author Comments and Group Discussion III. Meeting the Challenges of Global Collaboration Needs for Global Dialogue Priority Issues that Call for Discussion Suzanne Ortega, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Washington Rune Nilsen, Professor at the Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion Trans-national or Trans-regional Models that “Work” Barbara Evans, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Professor of Zoology, University of British Columbia Needs for Appropriate Platforms for Discussion John Hayton, Counsellor of Education, Science and Training, Australian Education International, Washington, DC, and Mary Ritter, Pro-Rector (Postgraduate and International Affairs), Imperial College London Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion IV. Key Network Partners for Discussion of Graduate Education Globally Structures and Country Difference: Who Represents the Community? Lesley Wilson, Secretary General, European University Association (EUA) Moheb Ghali, Dean of the Graduate School, Western Washington University Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion What Kind of Sharing Can Benefit All Players? Kebin He, Executive Dean of the Graduate School, Tsinghua University Fred Hall, Vice-Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion What Venues Work? Mark Dale, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta Author Comments and Group Discussion iv How Should Employers be Engaged? James Moran, Vice Provost, Graduate Studies and Research, University of Denver, and Jeffery Gibeling, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of California, Davis Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion V. Flow of Talent American and European Perspectives William Russel, Dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University Victoria Rodriguez, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Texas–Austin Rune Nilsen, Professor at the Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway Authors’ Comments and Group Discussion VI. Conclusion Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools Appendices A. Banff Principles B. Participant Biographies v Foreword Graduate education in a global context is all about learning and growing through discussion and partnerships. Sharing of ideas, experiences, challenges, and opportunities leads to greater understanding of mutual concerns and promotes collaborations for mutual benefit. The very productive partnership between the Council of Graduate Schools, whose members represent both U.S. and Canadian universities, and the Province of Alberta resulted in the first-ever Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education. The proceedings of this summit tell the story of shared concerns about and new approaches to dealing with the challenges of a rapidly changing global environment. The proceedings also indicate the optimism these leaders hold for the power of partnership in effectively responding to the new demands on graduate education from within and outside the academy. It is the hope of both the Province of Alberta and the Council of Graduate Schools that this convening, held in one of North America’s most splendid environments, will launch an ongoing and sustained global conversation that will strengthen the graduate enterprise worldwide. The Honourable Doug Horner Debra W. Stewart Minister, Alberta Advanced Education and President Technology, Government of Alberta Council of Graduate Schools vi Debra W. Stewart Acknowledgments In addition to thanking each of the participants of the Banff meeting for their substantive engagement and intellectual contributions, I would like to thank those who helped to bring together the papers that informed the meeting and the discussions that these papers inspired for CGS publication: Eleanor Babco, for her work in preparation for the meeting, throughout the meeting, and for compiling the draft of the manuscript for this publication; Daniel Denecke and Diana Carlin for their work on the text and discussion summaries; and Daniel, Cheryl Flagg, and Emily Neubig for preparing the final manuscript for print. Debra W. Stewart President Council of Graduate Schools 1 The Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education I. The Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education: Purposes and Products Graduate education is widely seen as the cornerstone of a country’s educational infrastructure, determining its degree of participation in the knowledge economy of the future. This perception is almost universally shared, despite the fact that graduate education means different things in different countries and regions, and despite the widely varying capacities of countries to deliver high quality graduate education within their borders. While higher education, generally, is essential for a nation to participate in the global knowledge economy, graduate education and advanced research training are key to establishing a leadership position in that economy. Graduate education is a key driver in generating new knowledge and new ideas, cultivating new intersections between traditional disciplinary fields, producing and inspiring future generations of scholars and researchers, and translating the knowledge generated into human betterment. Clearly, the spectrum of graduate education includes countries that are just beginning to build systems of graduate education as well as nations and regions in the process of enhancing or reforming well-established graduate education systems. In the fall of 2006 the boards of the Council of Graduate Schools and the European University Association met in Salzburg, Austria to begin a discussion about reforms in doctoral education that were unfolding in both the U.S. and Europe. Among the goals of this transatlantic dialogue were to promote better mutual understanding of the transformations taking place in doctoral education in each geographic context and to ascertain their national, regional, and global implications. This extraordinarily productive dialogue motivated the next steps to broaden the scope of the discussion in two ways: first to expand the discussion to include master’s as well as doctoral education, and second to expand the participants to include a set of geographically dispersed countries with mature systems of graduate education at both the master and doctoral levels. The Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education, convened in Banff, Alberta, Canada, in September 2007 by the Council of Graduate Schools in partnership with the Province of Alberta, was designed to launch this global conversation about best practices in graduate education and, to the extent possible, map concrete directions for future collaborations. We invited leaders of graduate education from countries and regions with which CGS had been in active bilateral dialogue: Canada, Australia, China, Europe, and the United States. We wanted to explore both the opportunities and the challenges confronting advanced systems of graduate education. With respect to the doctoral degree, we were particularly interested in developments in improving completion rates, facilitating interdisciplinary programs, and launching professional development programs for doctoral students. On master’s education we wondered about the evolution of the professional master’s degree in traditional arts and science fields as well as the role of the master’s degree generally as Global Perspectives on Graduate Education 2 Debra W. Stewart preparation for the workforce. We also wanted to explore
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