The Metamorphosis of University Governance at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Conference

Wednesday, September 7, 2016, 9:30 am – Thursday, September 8, 2016, 4:00 pm

The Metamorphosis of University Governance at the Beginning of the 21st Century September 7 - 8, 2016

Central European University, Monument Building (Nádor u., 9) – Popper room

This conference is the fourth of a series of yearly events on higher education building on the intellectual legacy of Yehuda Elkana, CEU’s former Rector and President. The series included workshops at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism, September 2013), in Hannover organized by the Volkswagen Foundation (What is Intellectual Quality in the Humanities? September 2014), and in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hosted by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University (Curricula and Humanistic Scholarship: Between Tacit Knowledge and Public Discourse, September 2015).

The theme of the conference draws from Elkana’s last book (published posthumously by CEU Press in August 2016 – and to be launched on the first day of the conference), “The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age,” co-authored with Hannes Klöpper. Presentations and discussions will focus on contemporary changes and challenges in university governance, covering a wide range of related topics such as governing innovation in the natural and social sciences and the humanities, governance of inter-disciplinarity and diversity, or new models of curriculum.

Presenters will draw on experiences from various academic traditions around the world (Europe, US, India, the Middle East), and different disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Program

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Venue: Central European University, Monument Building (Nádor u., 9) – Popper room

9.00– 9.30	Registration and welcome coffee
09.30 – 09.45	Welcome remarks from CEU President and Rector, Michael Ignatieff Greetings: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
09.45 – 11.00	Opening lectures Gabriel Motzkin (Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute): Governance of humanistic scholarship: quo vadis? Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Universities claiming their rightful place Discussion
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Panel I. Myths and illusions about university governance: a long-term view Chair: Alexander Semyonov (Professor and Chair, Department of History, The National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg)
	Rivka Feldhay (Professor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Knowledge in the Age of Governance: Promise or Problem?
	Diana K. Buchwald (Professor, California Institute of Technology and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Remarks on historical developments in scientific and humanistic education during the era of expanding governance concerns
	Mordechai Feingold (Professor, California Institute of Technology): Rethinking the Rise of the Modern Research University: The Case of England
	Discussion
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30	Panel II. Re-thinking governance and curriculum in the age of technology Chair: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
	Manfred Laubichler (Professor, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences): A new model of curriculum; integrating values and new models of delivery in a scattered world
	Guido Caniglia (Leuphana University Lüneburg) co-authors Beatrice John, Leonie Bellina: What could university look like in the 21st Century. The Global Classroom Curriculum
	Hannes Klöpper (CEO and Co-Founder at iversity GmbH – Study Anywhere): Governing an alternative online university
	Discussion
15.30 – 16.30	Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00	BOOK LAUNCH The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age (Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper), CEU Press, 2016.
	Chair: Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Discussants: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Inside the Mind of Yehuda Elkana Hannes Klöpper (co-author, CEO and Co-Founder at iversity GmbH – Study Anywhere) Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Venue: Central European University, Monument Building (Budapest, Nador u., 9) – Popper room

09.30 – 10.00	Morning coffee
10.00 – 11.00	Panel III. Governance of the advancement of education and science Chair: Gabriel Motzkin (Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
	Marvin Lazerson (Professor, CEU and Chairman, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): The unconvincing shift to an American mode of governance in European higher education
	Raghavendra Gadagkar (JC Bose National Fellow, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and President of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi): Fostering innovation in teaching and learning by breaking boundaries between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities
	Discussions
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00	Panel Session IV. The politics of governance Chair: Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
	Alexander Semyonov (Professor and Chair, Department of History, The National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg): Shared governance in the university and the question of academic excellence
	Gergely Kováts (Senior Lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Vice-Director of the Center for International Higher Education Studies): The Pendulum Strikes Back? The Evolution of Higher Education Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Hungary
	Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Under our eyes – shifting paradigms of university governance
	Discussions
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00	In search for conclusions or policy lessons
16.00	Farewell Coffee

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 7:30AM - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 2:00PM Add to Calendar 2016-09-07 07:30:00 2016-09-08 14:00:00 The Metamorphosis of University Governance at the Beginning of the 21st Century The Metamorphosis of University Governance at the Beginning of the 21st Century September 7 - 8, 2016 Central European University, Monument Building (Nádor u., 9) – Popper room This conference is the fourth of a series of yearly events on higher education building on the intellectual legacy of Yehuda Elkana, CEU’s former Rector and President. The series included workshops at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism, September 2013), in Hannover organized by the Volkswagen Foundation (What is Intellectual Quality in the Humanities? September 2014), and in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hosted by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University (Curricula and Humanistic Scholarship: Between Tacit Knowledge and Public Discourse, September 2015). The theme of the conference draws from Elkana’s last book (published posthumously by CEU Press in August 2016 – and to be launched on the first day of the conference), “The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age,” co-authored with Hannes Klöpper. Presentations and discussions will focus on contemporary changes and challenges in university governance, covering a wide range of related topics such as governing innovation in the natural and social sciences and the humanities, governance of inter-disciplinarity and diversity, or new models of curriculum. Presenters will draw on experiences from various academic traditions around the world (Europe, US, India, the Middle East), and different disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Program Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Venue: Central European University, Monument Building (Nádor u., 9) – Popper room 9.00– 9.30 Registration and welcome coffee 09.30 – 09.45 Welcome remarks from CEU President and Rector, Michael Ignatieff Greetings: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) 09.45 – 11.00 Opening lectures Gabriel Motzkin (Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute): Governance of humanistic scholarship: quo vadis? Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Universities claiming their rightful place Discussion 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 – 13.00 Panel I. Myths and illusions about university governance: a long-term view Chair: Alexander Semyonov (Professor and Chair, Department of History, The National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg) Rivka Feldhay (Professor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Knowledge in the Age of Governance: Promise or Problem? Diana K. Buchwald (Professor, California Institute of Technology and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Remarks on historical developments in scientific and humanistic education during the era of expanding governance concerns Mordechai Feingold (Professor, California Institute of Technology): Rethinking the Rise of the Modern Research University: The Case of England Discussion 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 – 15.30 Panel II. Re-thinking governance and curriculum in the age of technology Chair: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Manfred Laubichler (Professor, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences): A new model of curriculum; integrating values and new models of delivery in a scattered world Guido Caniglia (Leuphana University Lüneburg) co-authors Beatrice John, Leonie Bellina: What could university look like in the 21st Century. The Global Classroom Curriculum Hannes Klöpper (CEO and Co-Founder at iversity GmbH – Study Anywhere): Governing an alternative online university Discussion 15.30 – 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 – 18.00 BOOK LAUNCH The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age (Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper), CEU Press, 2016. Chair: Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Discussants: Marvin Lazerson (Professor, Central European University and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Inside the Mind of Yehuda Elkana Hannes Klöpper (co-author, CEO and Co-Founder at iversity GmbH – Study Anywhere) Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Thursday, September 8, 2016 Venue: Central European University, Monument Building (Budapest, Nador u., 9) – Popper room 09.30 – 10.00 Morning coffee 10.00 – 11.00 Panel III. Governance of the advancement of education and science Chair: Gabriel Motzkin (Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) Marvin Lazerson (Professor, CEU and Chairman, International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): The unconvincing shift to an American mode of governance in European higher education Raghavendra Gadagkar (JC Bose National Fellow, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and President of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi): Fostering innovation in teaching and learning by breaking boundaries between natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities Discussions 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session IV. The politics of governance Chair: Jo Ritzen (Chair and founder, Empower European Universities; Professor, Maastricht University and International Advisory Committee, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education) Alexander Semyonov (Professor and Chair, Department of History, The National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg): Shared governance in the university and the question of academic excellence Gergely Kováts (Senior Lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Vice-Director of the Center for International Higher Education Studies): The Pendulum Strikes Back? The Evolution of Higher Education Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Hungary Liviu Matei (Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University; Director, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education): Under our eyes – shifting paradigms of university governance Discussions 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 16.00 In search for conclusions or policy lessons 16.00 Farewell Coffee UTC public

Wednesday

September

2016

9:30AM

Budapest Site

Nador u. 9, Monument Building

Host

Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research

Audience

Public

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