Johnstone, D. B (2013). [Review of the book Financing of American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, by W. Zumeta, D. W. Breneman, P. M. Callen & J. E. Finney]. Journal of Higher Education, 84(3), 446-448.
Johnstone, D. B (2013). [Review of the book Financing of American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, by W. Zumeta, D. W. Breneman, P. M. Callen & J. E. Finney]. Journal of Higher Education, 84(3), 446-448.
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, June). Student loans worldwide: Critical options and issues. Invitational lecture presented at Financing Higher Education conference, Warsaw, Poland. The lecture was sponsored by the US Economy and Trans-Atlantic Relations Institute of Lazarski University. Johnstone, D. B. (2013, May). Financing tertiary education in the Caribbean: The elusive quest for quality, capacity, affordability, and […]
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, June). Student loans worldwide: Critical options and issues. Invitational lecture presented at Financing Higher Education conference, Warsaw, Poland. The lecture was sponsored by the US Economy and Trans-Atlantic Relations Institute of Lazarski University.
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, May). Financing tertiary education in the Caribbean: The elusive quest for quality, capacity, affordability, and equity. The 14th Annual William H. Demas Memorial Lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank, Castries, St. Lucia. The lecture was sponsored by the Caribbean Development Bank.
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, May). Making student loans work in the Caribbean States. Invitational lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Bank, Castries, St. Lucia. The lecture was sponsored by the Caribbean Development Bank.
Brutt-Griffler, J. (2013, April). Encounters with English: Present-day English in a multilingual world. Plenary presented at the 58th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association, NY.
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, April). Tuition fees, student loans, and other manifestations of cost-sharing: Variations and misconceptions. Chapter presented at the invitational international symposium, Boston, MA. The symposium honored Dr. Philip Altbach, former University at Buffalo Professor and founder of GSE’s Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, who went to Boston College to found the Center for International Higher Education, the principal center of its kind in the world. The symposium introduced a Festschrift in honor of Dr. Altbach published in 2013 by Springer entitled At the Forefront of International Higher Education.
Johnstone, D. B. (2013, February). Higher education’s worldwide dilemmas. In Equity in Higher Education for Economic Development. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Aarhus University and Empower European Universities, Aarhus, Denmark. The presentation was sponsored by Aarhus University and Empower European Universities (EEU).
Brutt-Griffler, J. (2012, October). TRANS-DOC pilot course on transferable skills for PhD students. Plenary presented at TRANS-DOC Closing Seminar, Brussels, Belgium. The plenary was sponsored by the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union.
Brutt-Griffler, J. (2012, March). TRANS-DOC: Trends in higher education. Plenary presented at University of Granada, Spain. The plenary was supported by the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union.
Brutt-Griffler, J. (2010, October). A global language for global universities? Language in higher education. Plenary presented at the International Conference on Learning and Teaching, Malaysia.
The United States Department of Education awarded funds to the Second/Foreign and Bilingual Education Area in the Department of Learning and Instruction and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education in the Graduate School of Education to conduct a study of a Chinese culture and to implement a Mandarin immersion program starting in […]
The United States Department of Education awarded funds to the Second/Foreign and Bilingual Education Area in the Department of Learning and Instruction and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education in the Graduate School of Education to conduct a study of a Chinese culture and to implement a Mandarin immersion program starting in the academic year of 2013. This project is collaborative venture with the UB Confucius Institute and Capital Normal University in Beijing. Five (5) foreign language pre-service teachers and five (5) educators in the field of foreign languages and international studies will participate in the project. The study is grounded in socio-cognitive theory of language development and will investigate participants’ linguistics, cognitive and cultural gains. The researchers will assess the study’s design for replicating it in the future.
Dr. Jane Kenway, Professorial Fellow of Australian Research Council and Professor of Faculty of Education of Monash University, Australia, gave a Educational Culture, Policy and Society (ECPS) Brown Bag Series lecture at the University at Buffalo on October 22, 2012. Dr. Kenway’s talk entitled Staying Ahead of the Game: Elite Schools’ Globalising Curriculum Practices addressed […]
Dr. Jane Kenway, Professorial Fellow of Australian Research Council and Professor of Faculty of Education of Monash University, Australia, gave a Educational Culture, Policy and Society (ECPS) Brown Bag Series lecture at the University at Buffalo on October 22, 2012. Dr. Kenway’s talk entitled Staying Ahead of the Game: Elite Schools’ Globalising Curriculum Practices addressed following questions by drawing on the first three years of field-work from a broad-based multi-national, multi-sited global ethnographic study of elite schools and globalisation (2010-2014):
This larger study included nine schools from nine different countries in five regions of the world: Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, with all schools exhibiting linkages with the former British Empire.
This ECPS Brown Bag Series lecture was sponsored by the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education and the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy.
Dr. Jaekyung Lee has been appointed the 8th dean in the history of the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Lee’s appointment represents the culmination of an extensive national search that yielded a group of highly competitive candidates. “Dr. Lee’s scholarship and administrative skills make him an outstanding choice to lead GSE as it pursues an […]
Dr. Jaekyung Lee has been appointed the 8th dean in the history of the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Lee’s appointment represents the culmination of an extensive national search that yielded a group of highly competitive candidates. “Dr. Lee’s scholarship and administrative skills make him an outstanding choice to lead GSE as it pursues an ambitious vision for advancing its national and international prominence in research, graduate education, and educational policy,” said UB Provost Charles Zukoski.
Dr. Lee, a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, is an internationally recognized leader in educational policy, educational equity, and international and comparative education. His scholarly research agenda focuses on addressing pressing societal questions regarding high-stakes testing and educational accountability, and educational achievement gaps. Dr. Lee served as GSE interim dean since July 2012.
Additional information about Dr. Lee and his appointment as dean can be found in UB Reporter.
