ICHER International Conferences on Higher Education Reform_��

Over the last several decades, HERC has been actively involved in a series of International Conferences on Higher Education Reform (ICHER) and hosted this conference in Dublin City University, Ireland in 2016. Eight of the conferences have taken place in North America (Canada [3], the US [2] and Mexico [2]), four in Europe (Austria, Ireland, Germany, and Slovenia), and four in Asia (two each in Japan and China).

Further information about ICHER, previous conferences and publications, and the International Scientific Committee can be found below.

About ICHER

Themes: The conferences have covered various topics, ranging from internationalization and marketization to issues of institutional governance (see table below). The major papers from the conferences have been published, either in the form of monographs, special issues of academic journals, or as individual articles or chapters. Organizers served also as editors, with occasional help from members of the International Advisory Board.

Format: A key aim of the series is to facilitate engagement and intensive dialogue on the topic at hand. For this reason, while attendance is open to all interested parties, the target number of participants is usually relatively small (c75-100). Participants include post-secondary education researchers, both professors and graduate students, policy analysts and representatives of HE ministries or policy bodies. A strength of the conference series is the opporunity it offers for cumulative discussions over the years- there is usually a body of around 25 to 30 people, who have attended most of the workshops.

Financing: The conferences are self-financing, i.e. financed through participants�� fees. On several occasions, local organizers have attracted external contributions in the form of grants from research councils, governments, or the hosting institution. Because conferences are held on campus, the fees are usually fairly low (on average between US $ 120 and 150). There are different fees for various categories of participants, such as for grad students, emeriti or early registrants.

Co-sponsorship: HER conferences have been co-sponsored by learned societies in various countries (for example the [North American] Comparative and International Education Society [CIES] and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education [CSSHE]). While this has meant greater dissemination of the call for papers and higher visibility of the HER-conferences and the publications emanating from them, it has not generated direct contributions to the funding.

Organization: The conferences s are organized by local teams of the hosting institution. They are assisted by members of an international advisory board (IAB), for example with advertising the workshop in their respective countries or regions, identifying and providing contact with potential keynote speakers and principal panelists, adjudicating paper proposals, and suggesting themes, and workshop-related events as well as potential publishers for the proceedings,

Dates: The workshops were usually held in the late summer or beginning of the autumn, depending on the availability of staff, rooms, and speakers.

Previous ICHER Conferences - Venues, Themes and Publications

Previous ICHER conferences - Venues, Themes and Publications

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Year	Place	Main theme(s)	Publication of proceedings
Sept 2020	Glasgow (Glasgow U)	Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for HE education policy and reform	POSTPONED to a later date due to COVID pandemic
Sept 2019	Mexico City (CINESTAV �C DIE), conference website here	Digitalization of Higher Education: Impact and Consequences for Policy	De Vries, W., Alvarez Mendiola, G. & H.G. Schuetze (Eds. forthcoming)
2018	Baltimore (Johns Hopkins U) USA, conference website here	Reinventing the public mission of Higher Education: Policies and practice	Papadimitriou, A. & Boboc, M. (Eds. 2020) Re-envisioning Higher Education��s Public Mission - Global Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-55716-4
2017	Hiroshima (RIHE Hiroshima U), Japan, conference website here	Assessing the missions of Higher Education: Performance, productivity, and pedagogies	Futao Huang, Jun Oba (Eds. 2019), Special Issue, Research in Higher Education (Daigaku Ronshu), Hiroshima: Research Institute for Higher Education, HiroshimaU.
2016	Dublin (DCU) Ireland, conference website here	Wider Access, Changing Demographics and Migration: Implications for HE Reforms and Policy	Slowey, M., Schuetze, H.G. & Zubrzycki, T.) (Eds. 2020): Inequality, Innovation and Reform in Higher Education - Challenges of Migration and Ageing Populations. Cham (CH): Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28227-1
2015	Tianjin (Tianjin Normal U), China	Policies and Practice of Quality Assurance and Control in Higher Education	Selected papers published in Frontiers of Education in China (Springer) 2018, vol. 13 no.2: https://link.springer.com/journal/11516/13/2
2014	Memorial U, St. John��s, NL (Canada)	Higher Education and its Principal Mission: Preparing Students for Life, Work, and Civic Engagement	Archer, W. & H.G. Schuetze (Eds. 2019): Preparing Students for Life and Work: Policies and Reforms Affecting Higher Education��s Principal Mission. Rotterdam and Boston: Sense-Brill https://brill.com/view/title/54347
2013	Ljubljana (U Ljubljana), Slovenia, conference website here	HE Reforms: Looking Back �C Looking Forward	Zgaga, P., Teichler, U., Schuetze, H.G., & A. Wolter (Eds. 2nd ed. 2019): Higher Education Reform: Looking back - Looking forward. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang, https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049323
2012	Pittsburgh U Pittsburgh), USA	Community Engagement of Universities	Jacob,W.J., Sutin,S.E., Weidman, J.C. & John L. Yeager (Eds.) (2015): Community Engagement in Higher Education - Policy Reforms and Practice, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, https://brill.com/view/title/36775
2011	Berlin (Humboldt U), Germany	Universities and Lifelong Learning	[Publ. together with HER 10 (Ljubljana) publ., 2015, 2nd ed. 2019]
2010	Vancouver (UBC), Canada	Reform of University Governance	Schuetze, H. G., Bruneau, W., & G. Grosjean. (Eds.): University governance and reform - Policy, fads, and experience in international perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137040107
2009	Mexico City (CINESTAV �C DIE), Mexico	The Changing Roles of State and Markets in HE	Schuetze, H. G., & Alvarez Mendiola, G. (Eds. 2012): State and market in higher education reforms. Trends, policies and experiences in comparative perspective. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, https://brill.com/view/title/37567
2008	Shanghai (East China Normal U), China	Internationalization of HE	Special Issue of Journal of Higher Education (Oct. 2008)
2007	Dublin (DCU), Ireland, conference website here	Innovations in Teaching and Learning	Special Issue of Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE), (2009) vol 15 Nr. 2, https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/adua/15/2
2006	Tokyo (U Tsukuba), Japan	Higher Education reforms in Japan and various other countries	Special Issue of Journal for University Studies Nr 35 (2007)
2004	Vienna (U Klagenfurt), Austria	Various themes incl. the changing state �C HE relation, collaboration with the private sector,	[Major papers were published on the workshop website (no longer available)]
2003	Vancouver (UBC), Canada	(Paired comparison of) Reforms of Higher Education in Six Countries, various themes	Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Higher Education (2004). vol 34 Nr. 3, https://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/issue/view/Volume%2034,%20issue%203

ICHER International Advisory Board

ICHER International Advisory Board:

Name	Position, Title	Affiliation
Abebaw Yirga Adamu	Associate Professor and Director	Ethiopian Institute for Higher Education, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Germ��n Alvarez Mendiola (Co-coordinator)	Professor and Head of Department	Department of Education Research, Centre for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico
Isak Davidovich Froumin	Professor	Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Ga?le Goastellec	Professor	Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Futao Huang	Professor	Research Institute in Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan
Anna Kosm��tzky	Professor	Center for Science and Society, Leibniz Universit?t, Hannover, Germany
Mei Li	Associate Professor	East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Antigoni Papadimitriou	Associate Professor	Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA
Hans G. Schuetze (Co-coordinator)	Professor Emeritus; former Director, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Rob Shea	Associate Vice President Academic, Student Affairs and Research	Memorial University, St. John's, Canada
Maria Slowey (Co-coordinator)	Professor and Director, Higher Education Research Centre	Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Hilligje Van��t Land	Secretary General	International Association of Universities (IAU), Paris, France
Andr? Wolter	Professor Emeritus	Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Shinichi Yamamoto	Professor Emeritus	Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan
Pavel Zgaga	Professor and Director, Center for Educational Policy Studies	Ljubljana University, Slovenia
Ran Zhang	Associate Professor	Peking University, Beijing, China

ICHER International Conferences on Higher Education Reform

ICHER International Advisory Board:

Name

Position, Title

Affiliation

Abebaw Yirga Adamu

Germ��n Alvarez Mendiola (Co-coordinator)

Isak Davidovich Froumin

Ga?le Goastellec

Futao Huang

Anna Kosm��tzky

Mei Li

Antigoni Papadimitriou

Hans G. Schuetze (Co-coordinator)

Rob Shea

Maria Slowey (Co-coordinator)

Hilligje Van��t Land

Andr? Wolter

Shinichi Yamamoto

Pavel Zgaga

Ran Zhang