"Inspiring Official Rhetoric and Rampant Abuses in Russia"
Tanya Lokshina, Russia Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Date and Time: January 20, 2011, 4:00 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA
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"Soviet Legacies and the Transformation of the Research University in Russia Today"
Mark Johnson, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
Date and Time: Thursday, January 21 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA
About the lecture: There is a complex political and institutional struggle underway in Russian higher education to build globally-competitive research universities, driven in part by the perceived failed reforms in the sector during the 1990s (which focused on privatization, decentralization, and commercialization), as well as the dismal showing of even leading Russian universities in various emerging systems of global university rankings. This talk will analyze the historical background of these debates and then analyze in detail some of the attempted reforms since 2000, which have focused on integrating institute-based research and university-based education; pushing Russian universities into the Bologna Process of European higher education integration; developing alternative systems of university rankings; most recently, creating a new class of "research universities," primarily in scientific and technical fields; creating new graduate schools of economics, business, and management;
and creating a new class of massive "federal universities," which are to be directly linked to regional development and "social responsibility."
About the speaker: Mark S. Johnson is an assistant professor of Educational Policy Studies at UW-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Professor Johnson's research and teaching interests focus on the global and comparative history of education, education in Russia and Central Eurasia, especially post-Soviet higher education policy, and United States international education policy and public diplomacy programs. Professor Johnson has worked as a consultant and evaluator for numerous public and private agencies including the U.S. Information Agency, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Civilian Research and Development Foundation. His recent publication is “Building Professional Skills and University Capacity for Policy-Relevant Social Science Research in A
rmenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan: The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) Program" (Washington, D.C., and Tbilisi, Georgia: Eurasia Foundation and Eurasia Partnership Foundation,) 2009.
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"Effects of Son Preference on Contraception, Abortion, and Fertility in Central Asia: The Case of Uzbekistan"
Jennifer Barrett, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University
Date and Time: Thursday, January 28 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA
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