Innovator Vol. 37 No. 1 - Fall 06: Legacy of Leadership
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Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
“The Future Scholarly Directions in the
Study of Higher Education”
Fall, 2006
The Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series will reflect the three concentration areas of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) – Academic Affairs and Student Development, Organizational Behavior and Management, and Public Policy. The CSHPE faculty identified four scholars on the cutting edge of higher and postsecondary education theory or research to serve as Distinguished Scholars for the lecture series. The Distinguished Scholars will spend two days on campus, during which time they will present an open lecture that addresses new theories, approaches or issues that will likely shape future scholarly work in each concentration area. Each lecture will be published as part of an edited volume of all presentations given throughout the 50th anniversary year. The Distinguished Scholars will also participate in seminars and will meet with graduate students and faculty while at the Center. They will also participate in the National Conference to take place at the University of Michigan March 22-24, 2007.
Academic Affairs and Student Development Lecture
“We, Too, Sing America: Race, Citizenship,
and Higher Education Opportunity”
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Dr. Walter Allen is the Distinguished Scholar
for the Academic Affairs and Student Development
Lecture. Dr. Allen holds the Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education
at the Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies at the University of
California-Los Angeles.
He is also Professor
of Sociology at
UCLA and an Affiliated
Scholar with the
Higher Education
Research Institute
(HERI). Dr. Allen is
cited for distinguished
achievement in “100
Years of Change,”
Special Issue of Black
Issues in Higher Education
(1999).
Dr. Allen’s research interests include comparative race and ethnic relations, comparative family studies, and higher education desegregation. He is currently the Co-Director of CHOICES, a longitudinal study of college access and attendance among African Americans and Latinos in California. Throughout his career, Dr. Allen has authored over 80 publications, and most recently served as a co-editor for a volume titled Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Excellence. Dr. Allen is no stranger to Ann Arbor, as he served as Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan before accepting a position at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Allen has held teaching appointments at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Howard University, Duke University, University of Zimbabwe and Wayne State University.
Public Policy Lecture
“Moral Reasoning and Higher Education
Policy”
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Two Distinguished Scholars have been
named for the Public Policy Lecture, Dr.
Michael S. McPherson and Dr. Morton
Owen Schapiro. Dr. McPherson is President
of The Spencer Foundation, and Dr.
Schapiro is President of Williams College.
Prior to joining The Spencer Foundation in
2003, Dr. McPherson served as President of
Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota
for seven years. A nationally known economist
whose expertise
focuses on the interplay
between education
and economics,
McPherson spent
the 22 years prior to
his Macalester presidency
as Professor
of Economics, Chairman
of the Economics
Department, and
Dean of Faculty at
Williams College in
Williamstown, Massachusetts,
where he
first collaborated with Dr. Schapiro.
Morton Owen Schapiro became the President
of Williams College in 2000. Before assuming
the presidency, he served as Chair
of the Department of Economics, Dean of
the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
and Vice President for Planning at the University
of Southern California. Prior to his
tenure at USC he was a member of the Williams College faculty
from 1980 to 1991, as
Professor of Economics
and as Assistant
Provost. Dr. Schapiro
is among the nation’s
premier authorities
on the economics of
higher education,
with particular expertise
in the area of
college financing and
affordability, and on
trends in educational
costs and student aid.
Drs. McPherson and Schapiro are longtime
colleagues and collaborators. They are
widely regarded as experts on the economics
of higher education, and utilize their training
as economists and experience as both
university executives and policy analysts
to investigate topics related to financial aid
policy and the affordability of higher education
in the U.S. Schapiro and McPherson
each have substantial publications individually,
and have co-authored several articles,
chapters and books, including The Student
Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent
in American Higher Education, and Paying the
Piper: Productivity, Incentives and Financing in
Higher Education (which they co-edited with
Gordon Winston), which was published by
the University of Michigan Press.
Organizational Behavior and Management Lecture
“Organizational Studies in Higher Education:
Insights for a Changing Enterprise”
Monday, December 4, 2006
Dr. Patricia Gumport has been named the
Distinguished Scholar for the Organizational
Behavior and Management Lecture. Dr.
Gumport is Professor of 
Higher Education at
Stanford University and serves as the Director
of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER). She has received
several honors, including the 2006 American
Educational Research Association’s Higher
Education Exemplary Research Award in
recognition of her outstanding scholarly
contributions to the field of higher education.
Through sociological analyses of American higher education, Dr. Gumport has illuminated the organizational, political and intellectual interests that redefine the content, structure and relative legitimacy of academic fields. She has examined the tensions arising during academic restructuring under budgetary constraints, the structural and normative strains in graduate education, and the impact of statewide academic planning initiatives on public higher education. She and Dr. Michael Bastedo (assistant professor, CSPHE) published their recent work on academic stratification in Higher Education and the Review of Higher Education. Dr. Gumport has two forthcoming books — Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts and Academic Restructuring: The Ascendance of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education — both with Johns Hopkins University Press.
Inaugural Event
“The Emerging Challenges to Higher
Education”
|January 12, 2007
The Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education will mark the beginning of its anniversary year with a special event that focuses on the emerging challenges to higher education. A distinguished panel of current and former university presidents, all with ties to the University of Michigan, will speak to this theme with special attention to the public purposes and social dividends associated with higher education. Each speaker will have the opportunity to address a topic related to this theme, followed by breakout sessions in which members of the audience will discuss the remarks. This event will conclude with the panel reconvening to share reactions to one another’s presentations and to address specific challenges that have been raised throughout the day. The speakers include:
- Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, President, U-M
- Dr. Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President of Syracuse University and former Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, U-M
- Dr. James J. Duderstadt, Professor of Science and Engineering and President Emeritus, U-M
- Dr. Charles Vest, former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, U-M
- Dr. B. Joseph White, President of The University of Illinois and former Dean of the Business School and Interim President,U-M
National Conference
“Understanding and Strengthening Higher Education’s Contributions to a Changing Society” March 22 - 25, 2007
The National Conference will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from within and outside of higher education. The conference will begin with a keynote address on the general ways in which higher education can contribute to a changing society. Specific topics – economic development, citizenship in a diverse society, and the advancement of knowledge – will be discussed in individual thematic sessions. Each session will feature a keynote address by a national speaker, a panel of respondents from the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities, and a series of breakout sessions led by CSHPE faculty. The closing session will synthesize the discussions and ideas from each of the thematic sessions into an overarching role for higher education in the future.
Featured speakers will be:
- Dr. William G. Bowen, Senior Research Associate and President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Dr. William (Sandy) Darity, Research Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African-American Studies, and Economics, Duke University and Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics, UNCChapel Hill
- Dr. John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist and Director of the Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation
Alumni Celebration
“The Contributions of the First Half-century and Our Commitments to the Second Half” May 31-June 2, 2007
The final event of the anniversary year will be an early summer Alumni Celebration. All alumni, former faculty and visiting scholars, and current students will be invited to remember the Center’s past and look ahead to its future. Events will be held on- and off-campus and will include cohort receptions, faculty- and student-led panel discussions, campus tours, social events, informal gatherings, an evening of dinner and dancing, a silent auction of CSHPE memorabilia, and more. Alumni-from the first class to the most recent class-are invited to help us celebrate 50 years of shaping higher education leaders.
