WCU-2

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2nd International Conference on World-Class Universities （WCU-2）
31 October - 2 November, 2007
Shanghai, China Program

Wednesday, 30 October
Whole day	Arrival of participants
19:00-21:00	Welcome reception

Thursday, 1 November
8:30-9:00	*Opening Session: Welcoming remarks and overview of meeting objectives*
	Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
	Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES

9:00-10:00	*Session I: Plenary Lecture*
	Chair: Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank
	Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Empires of knowledge: the challenges of world-class research universities in developing countries
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break

10:30-12:00	*Session II: Conceptual Aspects of World-Class Universities*
	Chair: Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland
	Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, École Normal Superieure, France About evaluation of world class universities: Respect of differences between nations in the definition of evaluation criteria
	Prof. André Siganos, Director General, CampusFrance, France Rankings, governance and attractiveness: the new French context
	Uwe Brandenburg and Prof. Detlef Mueller Boeling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany Identifying the best: the CHE-ranking of excellent European graduate programmes in natural sciences
	General discussion

12:00-14:00	Lunch

14:00-15:30	*Session III: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1*
	Chair: Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
	Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland Quality assurance and promotion of excellence in the Swiss university system
	Prof. Vladimir Troyan, St. Petersburg University, Russia Main principles of the strategy on building world-class universities in Russia
	Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France The restructuring of the national French system of research and world-class universities
	General discussion

15:30-16:00	Coffee Break

16:00-18:00	*Session IV: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 2*
	Chair: Prof. Detlef Müller-Böling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany
	Prof. Anders Flodström, Chancellor, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, Sweden Swedish strategies for world-class status in the context of university rankings - metrics for academic science
	Prof. Ivan Rozman, Rector, and Prof. Marko Marhl, Vice-Rector, University of Maribor, Slovenia Improving quality of universities by world-university-ranking in Slovenia and the Danube region
	Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan The new direction of Japanese higher education policy: Conflicts between global and domestic logic
	Prof. Kampechara Puriparinya, ChulalongKorn University, Thailand Strategies towards the world-class universities of Thai higher education institutions
	General discussion

19:00-21:00	Dinner

Friday, 2 November
8:30-9:30	*Session V: Keynote Lecture*
	Chair: Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank
	Prof. John Casteen, President, University of Virginia, USA
	Effective university management in difficult times

9:30-10:00	Coffee Break

10:00-10:30	*Session VI: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1*
	Chair: Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France
	Prof. Jing Huan Shi, Tsinghua University, China Combining the vision, mission and actions: Tsinghua’s experience in building the world-class university
	Prof. José-Ginés Mora, Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Strategies for developing a world-class university in a complex context: the case of the Valencia University of Technology
	Associate Prof. Gil Sun Song, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China A step toward a world-class research university: Seoul National University

10:00-10:30	Coffee Break

10:30-12:00	*Session VI: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities – Part 2*

	Chair: Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA
	Dr. Tony Sheil, Senior Manager, Research Policy Office for Research, Griffith University, Australia Implications of world university rankings for national and institutional research strategy of small developed nations
	Prof. Richard Russell, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, Australia The pursuit of “scale and focus” at the University of Adelaide
	Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, Dean, School of Information & Computing, German-Jordanian University, Jordan Class universities in developing countries: German-Jordanian University model
	General discussion
12:00-14:00	Lunch

14:00-15:50	*Session VII: Cooperation and Competition among Research Universities*
	Chair: Associate Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan
	Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA Educational exchanges: What world-class universities should not adopt from U.S. higher education
	Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Higher Education Group, University of Toronto, Canada Global portfolios and strategic international partnerships of a major research university
	Nicola Owen, Academic Registrar, University of Warwick, UK Elite scientists and the global brain drain
	General discussion

15:50-16:00	Coffee Break

16:10-18:00	*Session VIII: World-Class Universities – International Perspectives*
	Chair: Prof. Jie Zhang, President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank Creating world-class universities: a World Bank view
	Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES The impact of “seeking world-class status” from the point of view of internationalization/globalization

17:00-17:30	Final Discussion and Closing Remarks
	Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
	Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES

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