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25–27 June 2014
Queen’s University Belfast
Higher Education for Democratic Innovation Global Forum 2014
International conference organized by the Council of Europe; the U.S. Steering Committee of the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy; Queen's University Belfast; the European Wergeland Centre; and the European Students’ Union.
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HEDI2014 programmeDay 1: Wednesday 25 June 2014
13.00–17.00 Registration (Welcome Centre, Lanyon Building, Main Campus)
14.15–15.00 Pre-site visit briefing (Whitla Hall, Main Campus)
15.00–16.30 SITE VISITS* (depart from Whitla Hall)
18.30–19.30 Welcome reception (Canada Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University) Hosted by: Queen’s University President and Vice-Chancellor
Professor Patrick Johnston and US Consul General in Belfast, Gregory S. Burton
Business Engagement for Innovation and Societal Impact
Queen’s Science Shop and Springfield Charitable Association
Sharing Education
After-School Homework Clubs
Working with Children and Young People as Co-Researchers
South Belfast Partnership Board: Regenerating the City
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HEDI2014 programme Day 2: Thursday 26 June 2014
8.00–17.00 Registration (Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast)
9.00–10.30 Opening Plenary Session: Higher Education for Democratic Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Action
Co-moderators Professor Tony Gallagher, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University Belfast Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and Founding Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania; U.S. Chair of the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy
Speakers: Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers University–Newark Dr Stephen Farry, Minister for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland Executive Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General for Democracy, Council of Europe
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–12.00 Plenary Session: Case Studies on University and the City—Conflict and Collaboration
Co-moderators Tiago Estêvâo Martins, European Students’ Union Ana Perona-Fjelstad, Executive Director, The European Wergeland Centre
Speakers: Professor Tony Gallagher, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University Belfast Dr James T. Harris III, President, Widener University Jackie McDonald, Community Development Worker (Prison to Peace Program) Marcine Pickron-Davis, Chief Community Engagement and Diversity Officer, Widener University
12.00–13.15 Lunch (Isdell Courtyard)
13.15–13.30 Introduction to Group Sessions
13.30–14.45 Group Sessions
15.00–16.15 Plenary Session: Democratic Innovation and Inclusion
Co-moderators Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Scholar and Director of Civic Learning and Democracy Initiatives, Association of American Colleges and Universities Dr Krzysztof Ostrowksi, Pultusk Academy of Humanities
Speakers: Dr Ahmed Bawa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Durban University of Technology Dr Mildred Garcia, President, California State University Fullerton Elisabeth Gehrke, European Students’ Union Professor Dr Viola B. Georgi, Professor for Diversity Education, Centre for Inclusion in Education - Diversity and Democracy in Immigrant Societies, University of Hildesheim
16.30–17.30 Group Sessions
18.00 Buses depart from Riddel Hall to Belfast City Hall (for delegates and their partners)
18.30–19.00 Private Tour of Belfast City Hall (please ensure that you register for this event when collecting your conference pack at registration)
19.00–20.00 City reception and Lord Mayor’s Welcome (Belfast City Hall)
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HEDI2014 programme Day 3: Friday 27 June 2014
8.00–12.00 Registration (Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast)
8.45–10.30 Plenary Session: New Technologies: Implications for Higher Education’s Democratic Mission
Co-moderators Dr Char Gray, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Campus Compact Paul Manners, Director of the UK National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)
Speakers: Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University Rev. Fr. Walid Moussa. S.T.D., Rector, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Erin Nordal, European Students’ Union Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector, University of Oslo Philip Rogers, Vice President and Chief of Staff, American Council on Education David Scobey, Executive Dean, The New School for Public Engagement
10.30–10.45 Coffee break
10.45–11.45 Conclusion by the General Rapporteur and Commentary
General Rapporteur: Professor Matt Hartley, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Ligia Deca, Doctoral Student, University of Luxembourg, Former Chairperson of the European Students’ Union and Former Head of the Bologna Secretariat
11.45–12.45 Summative Policy Panel Discussion: Where do we go from here?
Co-moderators Sjur Bergan, Head of the Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation, Council of Europe Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and Founding Director, Netter Center for Community Partnership, University of Pennsylvania; US Chair, International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy
Speakers: Jindřich Fryč, Deputy Minister of Education of the Czech Republic; Vice Chair of the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice Professor Robert Hollister, Director of the Talloires Network, Tufts University Peter McNaney, Chief Executive, Belfast City Council Rok Primožič, European Students’ Union Renée White, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Simmons College
12.45–13.00 Closing of the conference
13.00–14.00 Lunch (Isdell Courtyard)
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SITE VISITS
Business Engagement for Innovation and Societal Impact Over the last few years Queen’s Research and Enterprise Directorate has reorganised extensively to ensure that it provides a faculty-facing service for our academic colleagues and a gateway for business and external stakeholders. The Directorate has a number of teams that include Business Alliance, Commercial Development, Consultancy and Technical Services, Contracting, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and Business Networks, Research Development, Research Governance and Research Policy.
Many of the teams have a role to play in civic and public engagement, as well as an increasing emphasis on developing innovation and delivering societal impact. On this site visit, based in the Research and Enterprise Directorate offices at 63 University Road, you will have the opportunity to talk to key staff about the University’s approach to this activity and tour the facilities.
Queen’s Science Shop and Springfield Charitable Association Queen’s Science Shop works with community organisations who want research carried out and with students who must complete a research project as part of their degree, seeking to make a match between the two. Science Shop students work on many different issues including policy and legal research, architecture and planning, information technology and environmental issues as well as a broad range of social issues, carrying out research projects for community or voluntary sector organisations.
The Springfield Charitable Association encourages and supports individuals to enhance their employability. In recent years the organisation has begun to focus on tackling disadvantage amongst older people, with a particular focus on the lack of provision in the local area for people experiencing dementia. Queen’s Science Shop has worked with the Springfield Charitable Association for the last five years, supporting them with pieces of student research looking at a range of issues around dementia. This site visit will showcase this type of collaboration and will include examples such as the work of nutrition student Jane Miller, whose study on behalf of Springfield Charitable Association, co-ordinated by the Science Shop, examined the role of diet in slowing down or preventing the onset of dementia.
Sharing Education Over 93% of children in Northern Ireland are educated separately. The Sharing Education Programme, based in the School of Education at Queen’s University and directed by Professor Tony Gallagher, has made significant contributions to education policy change in Northern Ireland.
Working with over 150 schools over a seven year period, the programme has developed, researched and advocated for change in the way that schools work together to overcome the divisions, promoting the creation of interdependencies between schools in the delivery of the curriculum. The result is porous boundaries between once divided schools. For example, in North Belfast, an area that is a patchwork quilt of division, schools work together across this divide in one of the most contentious areas of Northern Ireland. Our Lady of Mercy, a catholic-maintained school, has worked together with the Boys Model School and Girls Model School—predominantly protestant controlled schools—for a number of years to deliver the curriculum and improve outcomes for pupils.
This site visit will introduce you to the collaboration demonstrated by these schools as an example of increased opportunities for teachers and pupils across a divided community.
After-School Homework Clubs Many neighbourhood renewal area children and young people do not have the opportunity or encouragement at home to complete their homework and their families lack the financial and material resources necessary to assist their children to make improvements to their school work. This can result in underachievement at school and limit opportunities for the future.
This site visit will give you the opportunity to learn about Afterschool Homework Clubs supported by Queen’s Student Volunteers who work to provide homework support to local children and young people on a regular basis. The clubs are a safe environment for school children to attend and are free of charge. The scheme also benefits student volunteers in terms of personal development and employability.
The core aims of the After-School Homework Clubs are to improve the academic achievement of children and young people participating in the clubs; build the confidence of the children and young people participating in the clubs; and raise the aspirations of these children and young people so they believe in their potential and ability for further and higher education.
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Working with Children and Young People as Co-Researchers The Centre for Children’s Rights has developed a rights-based approach to research which involves children and young people as co-researchers. This has been applied to a wide range of research projects, including the development of rights-based measures, evaluation of educational initiatives and an analysis of young people’s legal needs. This visit will provide participants with the opportunity to hear directly from the young people who have been involved in working with QUB researchers on these qualitative and quantitative projects. The young people will discuss how they have informed the research design, analysis and interpretation of findings and how they have contributed to accessible dissemination of research findings.
South Belfast Partnership Board: Regenerating the City This site visit will take place in the Sandy Row Community Centre (located in the South Belfast area) and will introduce you to the work of the South Belfast Partnership Board. Representatives from the organisation will outline its role in the regeneration of the city. In particular, the ways in which Queen’s University Belfast has supported the South Belfast Partnership Board’s Education, Economic, Tackling Health Inequality, and Physical Regeneration/Neighbourhood Renewal strategic priorities through a programme of collaborative projects with Queen’s students from relevant disciplines will be highlighted. You will have the opportunity to hear about student participation in projects to benefit and enhance the local area, including a study on the affordability of childcare, particularly in relation to young parents, and the plotting of a heritage trail for South Belfast using G.I.S., contributing towards the tourism strategy for the area.
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Ahmed Bawa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Durban University of Technology is a theoretical physicist. Until August 2010 he was a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has previously held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Natal and then at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has served as the Program Officer for Higher Education in Africa with the Ford Foundation and during this time led and coordinated the Foundation’s African Higher Education Initiative.
Ahmed Bawa holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Durham. He served on a number of policy development teams in the post-1994 period in the areas of Science and Technology and Higher Education and was an inaugural member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation till 2002. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa as well as the Academy of Science of South Africa of which he was one of the inaugural vice-presidents. He also served as Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Research Development, and was Vice-Chair of the boards the Atomic Energy Corporation. He also served on the boards of Telkom and Sanlam. He serves on several international advisory boards.
Martin Bean is Vice Chancellor of The Open University, the UK’s largest academic institution and a global leader in the provision of flexible and inspiring learning. Before joining The Open University in October 2009, he was General Manager within Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Products Group. He has also held senior positions with Novell, the global software corporation and served as President of Sylvan Prometric, one of the world’s leading providers of testing and assessment services. In 2014 David Cameron appointed him as one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors. As well as commercial roles spanning from Europe to Asia Pacific to North America, he is heavily involved in shaping education in the developed and developing world, and is currently a member of The British Council’s Board of Trustees and the Commonwealth of Learning’s Board of Governors. Martin was also President of the not-for-profit AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run organisation, which places economics and commerce graduates in assignments around the world.
In addition, Martin has served as a member of the Work Force Training and Education Coordinating Board and the National Board of Directors of Jobs for America’s Graduates as well as advising the U.S. Senate on the importance of IT in the Workforce Investment Act. The 49 year old Australian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Adult Education from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
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Nancy Cantor is Chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark, a post she assumed in January 2014. Prior to her current position, Cantor was Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, where she led multi-faceted initiatives that built on the universities historical strengths, pursuing cross-sector collaborations in the City of Syracuse that simultaneously enrich scholarship and education, spurring transformation of this older industrial city. These local engagements in key areas—such as environmental sustainability; art, technology, and design; neighbourhood and cultural entrepreneurship; and urban school reform—resonate nationally and globally, demonstrating the impact and importance of engaged scholarship and the inter-connectedness of the pressing issues of our world. The breadth, depth, and success of these efforts earned Chancellor Cantor the 2008 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. Previously, Cantor was chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan and senior research scientist at the Institute for Social Research, and chair of the department of psychology at Princeton University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Cantor is a board member of the American Institutes for Research and the New York Academy of Sciences, co-chair of the American Commonwealth Partnership’s Presidents Council, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Anchor Institutions Task Force.
Stephen Farry has been an elected Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2007. He was appointed Minister for Employment and Learning in the Northern Ireland Executive in May 2011. His ministerial portfolio includes responsibility for: higher education, further education, vocational training, employment services, employment law and labour relations, skills strategy, student support and postgraduate awards. Minister Farry graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a BSSc (1st Class) in Politics. He gained his PhD in International Relations on the topic of the United Nations in the post-cold war era. He was a Senior Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace from 2005-2006. He has also acted as a consultant trainer for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Croatia and Bosnia. He served as the General Secretary of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland from 2000-2007. He became a member of the North Down Borough Council in 1993. This role continued until 2011. Minister Farry was Deputy Mayor for North Down from 2002 – 2003 and, subsequently, Mayor in 2007-2008. He was a member for Community Relations Council from 2007-2011. He was also director of Bangor and Holywood Town Centre Management Ltd.
Tony Gallagher is a Professor of Education at Queen's University Belfast and Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Planning, Staffing and External Affairs. He has been in this role since 2010 and from 2005 to 2010 he was Head of the School of Education.
His main research interest lies in the role of education in divided societies — most of his research on this issue has focused on the role of education in Northern Ireland, but he has worked in a number of other divided societies, including Israel/Palestine, Kosovo and Macedonia. He is currently leading a major project on the role of collaborative networks of schools as a way of promoting social cohesion and school improvement. He has also worked with the Council of Europe and a consortium of US universities on the civic role of higher education, including the Council's project on the role of universities as sites of citizenship.
Mildred García is currently president of California State University Fullerton and previously served as president of California State University Dominguez Hills where she was the first Latina president in the California State University system. Prior to coming to the CSU, she was president of Berkeley College in New York and New Jersey and earlier held positions at Arizona State University, Montclair State University, and the Hostos and LaGuardia community colleges of the City University of New York. Named to Hispanic Business magazine's 100 Most Influential Hispanics list for 2007, García has a strong commitment to multicultural alliances and believes that these coalitions strengthen students' self-development and opportunities, as well as strengthen institutions and communities. Her research and publications focus on the impact of equity in higher education policy and practice. García serves on President Obama’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and was selected by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the U.S. Committee on Measures of Student Success. She is a founding board member of the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships.
Garcia received a Doctor of Education degree as well as a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University; a master's degree in Business Education/Higher Education from New York University; a bachelor's degree in Business Education from Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY); and an associate's degree in Legal Secretarial Sciences in Business from New York City Community College, CUNY.
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Ira Harkavy, US Chair of the International Consortium on Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy, is Associate Vice President and founding Director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania. An historian with extensive experience building university-community-school partnerships, Harkavy teaches in history, urban studies, and Africana studies, and in the Graduate School of Education. Harkavy is a member of the National Science Foundation’s Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE); Harvard College National Advisory Board for Public Service; Widener University Board of Trustees; and the Anchor Institutions Task Force (Chair). His recent publications include Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (2007, co-authored with Lee Benson and John Puckett), Higher Education and Democratic Culture: Citizenship, Human Rights and Civic Responsibility (2007, co-edited with Josef Huber), The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change, Public Health and University-Community Partnerships, (2009, co-authored with Francis Johnston), and Reimagining Democratic Societies (2013, co-edited with Sjur Bergan and Hilligje van’t Land).
James T. Harris III is the president of Widener University, a doctoral-granting, metropolitan university in the United States. Under his leadership, Widener has gained recognition for its civic engagement work and was one of the first universities in the nation identified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to be classified as a “community engaged” institution. Dr Harris has served on several national higher education boards and continues to be an active scholar and teacher. Dr Harris is the recipient of many awards and honors. For example, earlier in his career, he was named by the John Templeton Foundation as one of the Top 50 Character Building Presidents in America and in 2011 he received the Chief Executive Leadership Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty of the Harvard University summer institutes where he works with future higher education leaders and he recently co-authored a book published by Stylus entitled “Academic Leadership and Governance in Higher Education.”
Matthew Hartley is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and chair of the Higher Education Division. His research and writing focus on academic governance and he is especially interested in exploring how academic communities define their educational and civic missions. Dr Hartley is currently engaged in research in Kazakhstan examining the shift of the governance system of this post-Soviet country and the move towards greater institutional autonomy and the establishment of
boards of trustees. He has also been engaged in work with the Council of Europe in Strasburg, France, exploring partnerships between universities, schools, and civil society organizations aimed at promoting Education for Democratic Citizenship. In 2011 he completed a Fulbright in Bratislava, Slovakia, in partnership with the Slovak Governance Institute examining the launch of community-based learning efforts at several universities. His book, To Serve a Larger Purpose, co-edited with John Saltmarsh, examines the roles of universities in democratic societies. Dr Hartley serves on the editorial boards of Educational Research, the Review of Higher Education, and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. He earned his Masters and Doctorate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
Rob Hollister was Founding Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. He is Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. A pioneer in the engaged university movement, Professor Hollister led the creation and development of the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, a uniquely comprehensive university-wide program to prepare students in all fields for lifetimes of active citizenship – to educate citizen engineers and citizen physicians, citizen humanists and citizen businesspeople. In 2005, he co-founded the Talloires Network. Also in 2005, in partnership with Campus Compact, he initiated The Research University Civic Engagement Network, an alliance that today number 40 major U.S. research universities. A specialist in citizen participation in public affairs and in the leadership and management of non-profit organizations, Professor Hollister is co-author of The Engaged University: International Perspectives on Civic Engagement and Development Politics, and co-editor and contributing author of Governing, Leading and Managing Non-profit Organizations; Cities of the Mind; Neighbourhood Policy and Planning; and Neighborhood Health Centers.
Jackie McDonald has made a significant contribution to the academic study of loyalism and the problems which effect the transition from conflict to peace in Northern Ireland. His input to studies such as Ulster Loyalism After the Good Friday Agreement (edited by Graham Spencer and James W. McAuley) in 2011 and the forthcoming book The UDA and the Future of Loyalism (by the same authors) has provided invaluable inside accounts of the tensions that shape loyalist transformation. His presentation to the Political Studies Association annual conference in Belfast in 2012 further detailed the work being done to try and move loyalism away from criminality towards stability and positive change. In making himself available to academic inquiry Jackie has helped the outside world further understand the identity and imagination that shapes the loyalist outlook and the continuing difficulties faced by loyalism as it struggles to adapt to the demands and pressures of peace and social stability in Northern Ireland.
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Peter McNaney has been the Chief Executive of Belfast City Council since January 2002. The largest of the 26 District Councils in Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council has an annual budget in excess of £180 million and a staff of 2,500 to serve the 277,000 people who live within its boundary. The Council’s Members are drawn from 6 political parties with no one political group enjoying overall political control. It operates a system of power sharing with the d’Hondt mechanism used to ensure proportionality on Council Committees and in outside appointments. Peter is a solicitor by profession and has worked for the Council for 28 years in a range of posts. He has served on many external boards, including the Council of the Law Society, and has chaired the governing body of Belfast Metropolitan College and a number of citywide partnerships including the Belfast Strategic Health Partnership, Belfast Resilience and the Community Safety Partnership. Peter was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2013 for services to Local Government and the Community.
Reverend Walid Moussa holds a Doctorate Degree in Ecumenical Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. He had first pursued his studies in Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical University of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. In addition to his philosophical and theological background, Fr. Moussa joined Madonna University in Michigan, U.S.A. and graduated with a Master of Science in Business Administration. He later followed postgraduate studies in School Administration at Saint Joseph University, Lebanon. In September 2005, Fr. Moussa was elected President of Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon (NDU). Currently, he has been serving as President of the Universities Association of Lebanon (UAOLB) since October 2011, as member on the Board of the International Association of Universities (IAU) since July 2008, and as member on the Executive Board of the Association of Arab Universities (AARU) since March 2012. Fr. Moussa’s research interests are related to Ecumenism and Christian Unity on one hand, and Education and Cultural Diversity on the other hand. He is a Salzburg Seminar Fellow and a member in the Delta Mu Delta, National Honor Society in Business Administration, U.S.A.
Marcine Pickron-Davis is Chief Community Engagement and Diversity Officer at Widener University, and reports directly to the president. She joined Widener University in October 2003. In this position, Dr Pickron-Davis serves as the university liaison and the president’s delegate to build community relations and strategic partnerships with the city of Chester. A major priority of her work is to advance Widener’s institutional mission to contribute to the vitality and well-being of the metropolitan region. Dr Pickron-Davis oversees the Office for Community Engagement and Diversity Initiatives, which is responsible for fostering university and community partnerships with schools, business and civic leaders, and faith-based
organizations; collaborates with and supports faculty engaged in service-learning and community-based research; broadens staff volunteerism in the community; and assists in the development of short- and long-term strategies that address the social, economic, and educational needs of the local community. Dr Pickron-Davis has played an instrumental role in raising the profile of Widener’s civic engagement mission, which has been recognized by external constituents such as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Project Pericles, and the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. She completed her bachelor’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and her master’s of social work degree from Temple University’s School of Social Administration in 1986. She earned her doctor of philosophy degree in educational leadership at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
David Scobey became executive dean of The New School for Public Engagement in 2010. He is a national leader in developing innovative methods to engage institutions of higher education with communities outside the academy. He was previously director of the Harward Center at Bates College in Maine, established to bring together community-based learning and research, co-curricular work, and environmental stewardship. He is the founder and former director of the University of Michigan's Arts of Citizenship program and taught for 16 years at the University of Michigan, holds a PhD in American studies from Yale, where he also received his BA degree, and a diploma in social anthropology from Oxford, where he studied as Rhodes Scholar.
Snežana Samardžić-Marković has been Director General of Democracy the Council of Europe since 2012, in charge of the Organisation’s action promoting democratic innovation, governance, participation and diversity. Her responsibilities include the policy areas of education and youth, local democracy, cultural policies, election assistance, the protection of human dignity, gender equality, children’s rights, and the rights of minorities, societal defences against discrimination, democratic citizenship, social cohesion, intercultural dialogue and democratic responses to crisis situations. Previously, Snežana has held numerous positions in the Serbian Government including as Deputy Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Neighbouring Countries; Assistant Minister of Defence (2005-2007) and Co-President of the Serbia-NATO Defence Reform Group; member of the Foundation Board of WADA, Minister of Youth and Sports (2007-2012) and President of the Fund for Young Talents.
Further information on speakers is available online at: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/HigherEducationforDemocraticInnovationConference/Speakers/
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delegates
Abdul-Aziz, DHA (abd) (Bezmialem Vakif University)
Professor Kamal Abou Chedid (Notre Dame University-Louaize)
Dr Samuel Abraham (BISLA)
Professor Jose L. Arco (University of Granada)
Dr Frank Ardaiolo (Winthrop University)
Joao Bacelar (European University Foundation - Campus Europae)
Provost Beth Barnett (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Professor Ahmed Bawa (Durban University of Technology)
Sjur Bergan (Council of Europe)
Dr Lori BettisonVarga (Scripps College)
Dan Bahadur Bishwokarma (Dalit Welfare Organization (DWO))
Prof. Dr. Aleksa Bjeliš (University of Zagreb)
Vice President Bob Bonfiglio (State University of New York)
Dr Tom Bowling (Frostburg State University)
Professor John Brewer (Queen's University Belfast)
Rick Brown (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Professor Albert Camarillo (Stanford University)
Professor Heather Campbell (University of Sheffield)
Chancellor Nancy Cantor (Rutgers University, Newark)
Dr Tony Chambers (University of Toronto)
Dr Grant Cornwell (The College of Wooster)
Ligia Deca (University of Luxembourg)
Mary Dempsey (NUI Galway)
Vice President Gail DiSabatno (Clemson University)
Dr Lewis Duncan (Rollins College)
George Dunn (Queen's University Belfast)
Professor Alan Dyson (University of Manchester)
Dr Mohamed el Tokhy (Ma'an Arab University Alliance)
Mr Tiago Estêvão Martins (European Students' Union)
Dr Thomas Flynn (Alvernia University)
Deputy Minister Jindřich Fryč (Ministry of Education; Youth and Sports)
Professor Tony Gallagher (Queen's University Belfast)
President Mildred Garcia (California State University Fullerton)
Dr Juan García Gutiérrez (UNED)
Ms Elisabeth Gehrke (European Students' Union)
Professor Dr Viola. B. Georgi (University of Hildesheim)
Professor Cristina Ghitulica (Ministry of National Education-Romania
President Philip A. Glotzbach (Skidmore College)
Dr Char Gray (Pennsylvania Campus Compact)
Ms Eva Grosman (Connect NI)
Dr Richard Guarasci (Wagner College)
Deputy Director Lars Gudmundson (The European Wergeland Centre)
President Vidar L. Haanes (MF Norwegian School of Theology)
Professor Martin Hall (University of Salford)
Dr Ira Harkavy (Netter Center, University of Pennylvania)
Dr James T. Harris III (Widener University)
Dr Matt Hartley (University of Pennsylvania)
Dr William Hawk (James Madison University)
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Kurt Hoffman Allegany (College of Maryland)
Professor Robert Hollister (Talloires Network)
Joana Kashi (Council of Europe)
Jean Keizs (York College/CUNY)
Filiz Keküllüoğlu (University of Hildesheim)
Dr Aidan Kenny (Teachers' Union of Ireland)
Kevin Kruger (NASPA)
Dr Solvor Lauritzen (MF/HiT)
Dr Claudia Lenz (The European Wergeland Centre)
Dr Cindy Maguire (Adelphi University)
Dr Bryan Maguire (Quality and Qualifications Ireland)
Paul Manners (National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement)
President Mary Marcy (Dominican University of California)
Lucy Marten (Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister)
Eileen Martin (Queen's University Belfast)
President David Maurrasse (Marga Inc.)
Dr David Maxwell (Drake University)
Dr Dean McGovern (Montana Campus Compact)
Lorraine McIlrath (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Dr Emma McKenna (Queen's University Belfast)
Lea Meister (European Students’ Union)
Rev. Walid Moussa (Notre Dame University – Louaize)
Dr Anne Murphy (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Dr Caryn McTighe Musil (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
Dr Robert Musil (The Rachel Carson Council)
Sondra Myers (University of Scranton)
Erin Nordal (European Students' Union)
Professor Brian Norton (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Professor Anna Ortiz (Cal State, Long Beach)
Dr Krzysztof Ostrowski (Pultusk Academy of Humanities)
Professor Ole Petter Ottersen (University of Olso)
President David Oxtoby (Pomona College)
Dr Eduardo Padron (Miami Dade College)
Ana Perona-Fjeldstad (European Wergeland Centre (EWC))
Dr Saul Petersen (New Jersey Campus Compact)
Dr. Marcine Pickron-Davis (Widener University)
Dr David Pollick (European Humanities University)
Professor Dr Aziz Pollozhani (State University of Tetovo)
President Earl Potter (St. Cloud State University)
President Paul Pribbenow (Augsburg College)
Dr Jerry Price (Chapman University)
Rok Primožič (European Students' Union)
Chancellor Wendell Pritchett (Rutgers University)
Representative from Ma'an Arab University Alliance
Representative from Ma'an Arab University Alliance
Jean-Philippe Restoueix (Council of Europe)
Vice President and Chief of Staff, Philip Rogers (American Council on Education)
Marian Royston (Queen's University Belfast)
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Sneẑana Samardẑić-Marković, Director General for Democracy (Council of Europe)
David Scobey, Executive Dean (The New School)
Vice President Dale Scully (Buena Vista University)
President Laura Skandera Trombley (Pitzer College)
Dawn Smith (University of Edinburgh)
Adejare Taofeek Somorin (International Initiative for Peace (IIP) – Ngo)
Dr Maggie Stevens (Indiana Campus Compact)
Dr Janicke Heldal Stray (Norwegian School of Theology)
Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. (University at Buffalo)
Jovanovic Tomislav (Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of
Republic of Serbia)
Professor Metin Toprak (Turkish Council of Higher Education, Istanbul University)
Noël Vercruysse (Flemish Department of Education and Training)
Joann Weeks (Netter Center, University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Weimar (University of Miami)
Dr Renée White (Simmons College)
Executive Director Madeline Yates (Maryland-DC Campus Compact)
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Venue
The venue for the Higher Education for Democratic Innovation Global Forum 2014 is Riddel Hall, Queen's University Belfast. Riddel Hall is located on the Stranmillis Road and is a ten-minute walk from the main campus and a 25-minute walk from Belfast City Centre.
Public transport within Belfast
Delegates can avail of the Translink Metro bus service that operates from Belfast City Hall with services every 10-15 minutes to Queen’s University Belfast main campus and Riddel Hall on Metro route 8.
Private taxi hire
There are several private 24-hour hire taxi firms in Belfast. Examples include Value Cabs (028 90 809080) and Fonacab (028 90 233333).
University telephone numbers
Queen’s University Belfast: 028 90 973087
Riddel Hall: 028 90 97 5664
Medical and emergency telephone numbers:
Emergency (Police; Ambulance service; Fire Brigade; Coastguard): 999
Belfast City Hospital: 028 90329241
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: 028 90240503
Telephone codes
To telephone Northern Ireland from abroad, dial 00 44 + area code (without 0) + local number. To telephone Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, dial 048 + area code (without 0) + local number. To telephone Northern Ireland from elsewhere in UK or to make an internal call, dial area code (with 0) + local number. To call the Republic from Northern Ireland, dial 00 353 + the area code (without 0) + local number.
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Maps to assist you in travelling to the University can be found online at http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/Location/Maps/
Belfast Visitor Centre
9 Donegall Square North, Belfast BT1 5GJ
Telephone: +44 (0) 28 9024 6609
Email: [email protected]
Currency
Please note that Northern Ireland uses the pound sterling (£) – the currency in circulation in England, Scotland and Wales. The pound sterling is not linked to the Euro (which is used in the Republic of Ireland). Mastercard (Access) and Visa credit cards are in general use and cheques backed by a bank card are widely accepted.
Conference Wi-Fi instructions
The conference wireless network is very easy to use; no extra software is required. Instructions have been included in your conference pack and you will find your user id and password printed on your lanyard.
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