18^th International Conference on Higher Education

Ankara, Turkey, 26-28 August 2005

Bilkent Hotel, Izmir Salon

 

For its 25^th anniversary it was decided to return to the site of the First International Conference on Higher Education.  In 1980 the Conference convened at Hacettepe University in Ankara, and in 2005 it met at Bilkent University, the second university established by the I.C.H.E. founder and honorary president, Professor İhsan Doğramacı, who on April 3, 2005, celebrated  his 90^th birthday.

Keynote Addresses

Private versus Public Universities: The Turkish Experience     
İhsan Doğramacı, President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bilkent University; Honorary President, International Conference on Higher Education (Text) (Slides)

25 Years of University Presence in Europe: Crisis or Renewal?
Andris Barblan, Secretary General of Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna, Italy

Strengths and Weaknesses of Public and Private
Universities -- A View from the United States of America
John T. Casteen III, President, University of Virginia, USA

The Challenges of Public Universities
Ergün Toğrol, former rector of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

The Challenges to Public Universities --A View from Japan 
Prof. Kintomo Takakura, President, Tokyo Women's Medical University (Text) (Slides)

Panels

Taking the Public out of Public Higher Education in the USA
Selma Botman, City University of New York, Chair: Title paper  
Susan O'Malley, CUNY: The blurring of the public and the private in public higher education  
Henry Wasser, CUNY: Conditions and restrictions of grants to universities by  philanthropic organizations and industry  

The International University of Iraq: Steps by a Private University to
Consolidate a Country.   
Chair Tareq Ismael, University of Calgary, Canada: Title paper  
Kamel Abu S. Abu Jaber, Jordan: Rebuilding higher education in Iraq: imperatives of a new university vision  
Raymond Baker, Trinity College, USA: The IUI: establishing a private international university in a war-torn country  
John T. Waggett, Trinity College, USA: IUI - private vision to public reality

Post-Conference evaluation: Global Partnership for the International University of Iraq  
Donn Lovett, Donn Lovett Agency Spur Capital, Calgary, Canada:

   

Contributed Papers  

Ziya Aktaş, Turkey: Turkish private and public universities and the information society  
Sa'doon Taha Al-Ajeeli, Iraq: The legal lay of private academic education in Iraq  
Mahdi Aldolemi, Iraq: Education in Arab countries and economic knowledge 
Alaa Al-Eteby, Iraq: Vision on private education in Iraq: Alyarmook University College as a model  
Hans Brits, South Africa: Focus group interviews as qualitative evaluation methods at institutions of higher learning      
Arif Çağlar, Turkey: The challenges of globalization and the inequities faced by the Turkish public higher education system
Hamlet Isayev/Isaxanlı, Azerbaijan: Strengths and weaknesses of private universities in a country with a transition economy: an Azerbaijani view.
Santosh Kumar Madugula, Singapore: Foreign university under WTO-GATS mechanism (Text)(Table) 
Kakha Nadiradze, Georgia (Unable to attend): The reforms in the higher education systems of Georgia  
Mohd Ridzuan Nordin, Malaysia: Public vs. private higher education in Malaysia: emerging issues and trends