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Current Initiatives and Research
Departamental & Faculty:
Department of Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education (EDHI)
Dr. Alberto Cabrera (Professor and Program Director, Higher Education) has been working with Dr. Wietse De Vries, Vice-president of Planning and Institutional Research of the University Autonomous of Puebla, on a series of studies assessing the impact of Mexican educational policies on Mexican college graduates. The results of this research were presented before the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He coauthored two papers related to this issue which have been published or about to be published in Revista de la Educación Superior (vol. XXXVII, number 146, 2008) and Higher Education. Dr. Cabrera is a member of the editorial board ofRevista Complutense de Educación in Madrid , Spain and a member of the advisory board of the Higher Education Accreditation Agency of the Provincial Government of Aragon, Spain . He has also been a keynote or plenary speaker at conferences in Spain, México, Argentina, and Brazil. Professor Cabrera is being considered for a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research and teach in Brazil during the summer of 2009.
In January 2009, Dr. Cabrera participated in a workshop and in a virtual round table both held in Madrid, Spain. The Polytechnic University of Madrid, one of the premier schools of Engineering in Spain, is in the midst of a major curricular reform prompted by the 1999 Bologna’s treaty. Dr. Cabrera led a colloquium dealing with teaching and learning. The virtual round table, sponsored by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the U.S. Embassy in Spain and UNESCO, brought together more than 1,000 participants over the Internet including top administrators and scholars from United States and Europe to examine different issues affecting Higher Education. Dr. Cabrera participated in the Higher Education & Social Needs round table.
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Dr. Thomas E. Davis (Assistant Professor, Education Leadership) completed dissertation research in August 2008 on Refugee education: Case studies in the choice of policy instruments and institutions. From April 2002 to June 2002, Dr. Davis worked with Church World Service/Joint Voluntary Agency in Nairobi, Kenya as a temporary caseworker. He worked with translators in order to document the case histories of Somali and Ethiopian political refugees pursuant to their relocation to the United States as part of the Refugee Relocation Program of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He received a U. S. Dept. of Education Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kenya from September 2000 to May 2001 in addition to a prior Title VI fellowship to study Swahili from September 1998 to May 1999. In summer 1998, he participated in a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad with Yale University and the University of Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Tanzania. In 1998, Dr. Davis also received a Ford Foundation/Michigan State University Fellowship to conduct pre-dissertation research in Mombasa, Kenya. Dr. Davis was Peace Corps volunteer teacher for Mathematics, Physics, and Agricultural Economics in a rural secondary school in the Coast Province of Kenya in 1993-94.
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Dr. Noah D. Drezner (Assistant Professor, Higher Education) co-taught a course called "Current & Historical Perspectives on Higher Education in South Africa" as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. This course included a traditional classroom portion and a summer study abroad experience for masters and doctoral students. He is interested in post-Apartheid higher education transformation and plans to pursue this research as well as look at students who choose to study abroad in South Africa in the future. Dr. Drezner also studied briefly in China and Spain looking at higher education. He is scheduled to teach a comparative higher education course in the 2008-2009 academic year.
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Dr. Steve Klees (Professor and Program Director, International Education Policy) recently completed his term as president of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Educacao e Sociedade at the University of Campinas, Brazil and the International Review of Education, a publication of UNESCO’s Institute of Education. Dr. Klees is currently involved through World Learning in the evaluation of a USAID project aimed at education and health improvement through civil society strengthening in Angola. In 2007, through Macro International, he evaluated a U.S. Department of Labor project in Brazil designed to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Dr. Klees presented a paper at the International Conference on the Implications of Language for Peace and Development at the University of Oslo, Norway in May, 2008.
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Dr. Jing Lin (Professor, International Education Policy) is co-investigator for a project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council in Canada. The project, entitled "China’s Move to Mass Higher Education: Implications for Civil Society and Global Cultural Dialogue," focuses on the transition of China’s higher education system from an elite system to a mass higher education system. Dr. Lin has also been the keynote or invited speakers at several universities in China on peace education and globalization.
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Dr. Hanne B. Mawhinney (Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership) studies the influences of globalization on education governance, leadership and civic education. Her research presented at the Canadian Political Science Association’s workshop on international trends in rescaling state spaces appears in a chapter entitled “Towards a new political leadership praxis in the rescaled space of urban educational governance” Cooper et al. (Eds) (2008). Handbook of Education Politics and Policy. Other research presented at the Comparative and International Education Society entitled: “Deliberative democracy in imagined communities: How the power of geometry of globalization shapes local leadership praxis is published in English et.al (2008) Educational Leadership and Administration. Conference Proceedings of the Canadian International Education Society’s 2008 annual meeting include her paper “Creating civic literacy in a global context: Cosmopolitan civic education within technospaces of imagined communities.”
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Dr. Kerry Ann O’Meara (Associate Professor, Higher Education) is a consultant for the Social Science Research Council of Canada on faculty community engagement and changing reward systems to support it. She also worked with the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts for the Russian rectors visit on a session on organizational change and faculty issues.
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Dr. Nelly P. Stromquist (Professor, International Education Policy) is currently co-editing a special issue for the International Review of Education on “Undoing Gender.” She is a member of the advisory board for the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices sponsored by the Organization of American States and was recently appointed member of the editorial board of the American Educational Research Journal—Social and Institutional Analysis. Recent books with an international focus include: Feminist Organizations and Social Transformation in Latin America (2008), The Professoriate in the Age of Globalization (ed., 2007), La construcción del género en las políticas públicas. Perspectivas comparadas desde América Latina (ed., 2006), and (ed. with Cynthia B. Lloyd, Jere R Behrman, and Barney Cohen, The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Selected Studies (2005).
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Dr. Marvin Titus (Assistant Professor, Higher Education) has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Higher Education. Published in the Netherlands, Higher Education is one of the leading outlets in comparative higher education.
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