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University Management Workshops, 2011

CEU Workshops for Administrators and Academic Leaders

The 5th Cycle

Workshop on Higher Education Policy in a Global World, February 16-19, 2011

Management of Research in Higher Education, 23-26 March, 2010

Enhancing teaching and learning and faculty development at universities in Europe , June 06-10, 2011

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to apply for the 5th cycle of University Management Workshops at CEU.

Central European University is an internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in social sciences and humanities. For the past 10 years we have been providing trainings for university professors and since 2006, we have extended our training offers to those working in administration or academic leadership. The resulting workshop series in Higher Education Policy and Management has proved to be a popular new opportunity.

We aim to help you:

· understand the recent developments and trends in university management

· think about the changes affecting your institution in the wider context of higher education policy

· have access to the latest research and communicate with experts in education

· meet colleagues from a wide variety of institutions with whom you can debate issues that affect your work

· Improve your job knowledge and skills

In order to keep up with the latest trends in higher education and to cover as broad a range of topics as possible we update our training programs every year. In 2011, we will be offering two completely news trainings on Higher Education Policy in a Global World and on Research Management. A popular workshop of last year - Enhancing teaching and learning and faculty development at universities in Europe - will make a return this year with a focus on how different institutions embrace change in teaching and learning. This is the time to find out more…

We look forward to welcoming you to Budapest .

Workshop on Higher Education Policy in a Global World

Date: 16-19 February 2011

Europe and the U.S. are in an intense competition for international students with the European Union now proudly announcing that is has more Chinese students than the United States . This workshop will explore the present higher education market and the policies that shape it as they are being developed and implemented across nation states and within regions -although the nature and reality of implementation vary widely. These policies almost always derive from a rhetoric of globalization (often referred to as the imperatives of the “knowledge economy”) that is influencing the very nature of higher education competition: it seems as if everyone wants to be the most competitive, including developing ranking systems and quality assessment measures so that institutions can be in the top 10, 20 or 100, in order to attract more and better students.

Policies to be discussed during workshop include financing, and communication, new governance and managerial structures, development of student services, quality assurance measures, existing relationships between research, teaching, and learning, 'borderless' higher education, and changing labor market needs through life-long learning and alternative post-secondary school institutions. A special focus will be placed on branding and communication as well as on topics indicated by the participants as of interest (prior to the workshop).

The workshop will provide participants with an understanding of how public policies are evolving in higher education across international boundaries and within individual nation states. The knowledge should enhance each participant’s analytic skills with regard to a broad range of policy developments and to apply them to concrete higher education issues.

Facilitators: Marvin Lazerson, Visiting Professor, Central European University

Richard Gillingwater, MD, Accrue Brand Value

Pusa Nastase, Program Manager, Special Projects Office

Deadline for applications is December 20th, 2010

Accepted participants will be notified by January 10, 2011

Deadline for registration is January 20, 2011

Management of Research in Higher Education

Date: 23-26 March, 2011

The pursuit of research alongside teaching and public service is one of the central characteristics of most universities throughout the world. In recent years, research activity has been subject to much scrutiny by governments and funding bodies; on the one hand, research can play a crucial role in local, regional and national economic development, but on the other hand, a new emphasis has emerged on relevance and value for money. This workshop will address many of the key issues facing universities today in the management of research.

Topics to be covered will include: An introduction to research in higher education (history, context, current issues and trends); International systems of research funding and support; developing a research strategy; management of research: policy and practice; evaluation of research; ethics and research governance.

Facilitator: Professor John Taylor

Professor of Higher Education Management

Higher Education Management Studies Unit (HEMSU),

School of Management , University of Liverpool

Deadline for applications is February 10, 2011

Accepted participants will be notified by February 20, 2011

Deadline for registration is March 1, 2011

Enhancing teaching and learning and faculty development

at universities in Europe

Date: 6-9 June 2011

European universities have been undergoing profound change in degree architecture, quality control, funding and management practice. But only some countries and institutions have attempted to systematically develop new policy tools and contemporary professional development programs in the area of teaching and learning. Many professors and their managers struggle to effect change in their own classroom and department or to make high quality teaching a demonstrable practice for the institution.

This management workshop will allow practitioners and managers at universities to become aware of best practice and policy developments in enhancing teaching and learning and faculty development in specific institutions. This workshop combines the expertise of two very different institutional settings (an innovative international social science and humanities graduate school in Central Europe with a wide outreach capacity and a successful large faculty of engineering in Sweden’s oldest university) to discuss two complementary case studies of leadership in teaching and learning, set in the broader European context and global trends in this area of higher education development. The participants will gain insight into the strategic and developmental aspects of policy formulation or agenda setting in teaching and learning, institutional and programmatic components, the scaffolding of support and reward structures for individuals and departments, and underlying principles of good practice in this area of university management. As a result, the participants of this workshop will leave well informed about global trends and ready to strategise and apply concrete approaches in their own institutional contexts.

Facilitators: Joanna Renc-Roe, M.A., Development Manager, CEU

Torgny Roxå, Academic Developer, Lund University

Deadline for applications is April 1st, 2011

Accepted participants will be notified by April 10, 2011

Deadline for registration is April 20, 2011

Financial conditions

The workshops are to a large extent subsidized by the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute and the Central European University .

There is a registration fee of USD 400 that represents a modest contribution to the real cost of the workshops and it includes:

· workshop materials

· coffee/tea breaks

· honoraria of guest speakers

· group dinner

Application Procedure and Requirements

Each prospective participant is kindly asked to fill out the application form to be found at at http://web.ceu.hu/sep/spo/hep_appl.html and send it to Pusa Nastase at nastasep@ceu.hu by the appropriate deadline.

Full support for attendance is provided by our office including invitation letters (if needed).

Please note that participants should be able to fully participate to the workshops in English and are expected to stay for the entire duration of the workshop.

Based on last years’ experience we expect the workshops will be in high demand, hence we encourage everybody to apply early.

For applications, registrations, and inquires please contact:

Pusa Nastase

Program Manager

Special Projects Office, Special and Extension Programs

Nador utca 9

1051 Budapest , Hungary

Tel: +36 1 327 3000 extension 2398/ Fax: +36 1 327 3190

E-mail: nastasep@ceu.hu

Further details about the workshop (detailed program description, facilitators’ expertise) and about Central European University are available on our web-site at

http://web.ceu.hu/sep/spo/hep.html

and

www.ceu.hu

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Bristol, UK - In 1953, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau published his groundbreaking book The Silent World, which has since sold five million copies and captured the imagination of generations of armchair adventurers. While breathtaking in its pioneering approach and imagery, it fell short on one minor detail: the underwater world is anything but silent.

Dr. Steve Simpson in the School of Biological Sciences, currently working on the effects of climate change on fish and fisheries, has spent much of the past decade studying the natural sounds produced by fish, shrimps and urchins on coral reefs.

`Coral reefs produce truly amazing soundscapes,' he says. `Snapping shrimps generate a constant crackling sound – which mariners often liken to that of frying bacon – that vibrates through the hull of a boat when anchored near to reefs. On top of this, fish talk to each other with a whole array of pops, grunts and chirps, and urchins scrape away at the reef to feed. Taken together, this sound is immense, and can be detected using a hydrophone (underwater microphone) from kilometres away.'

During his PhD, Simpson realised that the models of dispersal of coral reef fish used to test fisheries management strategies lacked some basic biology. Coral reef fish undergo an early phase of their life in the open ocean, away from the predators on the reef, where they develop from eggs to fully functioning larvae. During this period, which can last from weeks to months, fish may be dispersed up to thousands of kilometres, although amazingly, many return to the reef on which they were originally spawned. The models of the time failed to capture any of this.

Through a series of experiments, Simpson has found that reef fish larvae are highly attracted to the reef noises at the time they are ready to seek adult habitat. `We started by making recordings of reefs and playing them back around traps,' he explains. `We caught more than twice as many larvae in the noisy traps as we did in traps where we played no recordings. Then we built artificial reefs and used recordings to attract larvae to recruit to these new sites.' This work was published in Science in 2005, and is now being used in the Philippines and French Polynesia as part of trials for managing fish populations.

More recently, Simpson and his students have turned their focus to variations in reef noise in different locations. He explains: `Since reef noise is produced by the animals that reside there, it offers fish, and marine biologists, an opportunity to eavesdrop on the community. The fish can use it to select the best habitat to live in; for biologists and fisheries managers it provides a totally new tool for monitoring the health of the community.' In a study published this year in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Simpson and his team found that `noisier' reefs in Panama had more fish and greater proportions of live coral than `quieter' ones in the same region. This autumn, a recent Bristol Masters graduate, Sophie Holles, is building on this research by cruising around French Polynesia recording reefs and surveying fish communities and habitat.

Fish have a highly specialised auditory system, so perhaps it's not so surprising that larval coral reef fish use these sensitive hearing capabilities to exploit a reef's rich acoustic cues and steer towards habitat from the open ocean. In contrast, the larvae of corals appear to be little more than a bag of cells, developing for a few days in open water before hoping to land on a hard spot to start building their skeleton and, ultimately, a colony. But recent work by Simpson and his collaborators in Curaçao (published in the interactive open-access journal PLoS ONE) shows that coral larvae are also attracted by reef noise.

`At first I thought that playing sounds to coral larvae was crazy,' says Simpson, `but it soon became clear that these simple animals were moving towards the noise.' Simpson is now developing methods with a bioacoustician (Dr. Marc Holderied), an animal behaviourist (Dr. Andy Radford) and a nanoscientist (Professor Daniel Robert), all in the School of Biological Sciences, to use lasers to measure the vibrations of tiny hair cells on the surface of the coral larva in response to sound. As Simpson explains: `We have hair cells inside our ears; coral larvae have them on their outer surface. It is possible that coral larvae are actually inside-out ears, swimming around looking for a good spot to land.'

Unfortunately the underwater acoustic world is now a very different place to that of a century ago. Man-made (or anthropogenic) noise pollution is currently doubling every decade, and a low-frequency hum from shipping can be detected in every ocean. Additionally, the noise of pile-driving and operational turbines from offshore windfarms has caught the attention of policy-makers and conservationists, and the pulses from seismic airguns – used in the search for oil – and naval sonar activities have been implicated in mass strandings of whales and dolphins. In a further study published this year in Behavioral Ecology, Simpson showed that the larvae of coral reef fish, when exposed to man-made noise for a few hours, can later become attracted to it. `This would be bad news for fish,' he points out, `if they follow ships out of harbours or try to set up home in industrial areas rich in noise but poor in natural resources.'

In collaboration with Drs. Radford and Holderied in the School of Biological Sciences, and with funding from Defra, Simpson is now investigating the chronic effects of anthropogenic noise on UK marine animals. He explains: `By combining hearing studies and behavioural experiments with measurements and models of soundscapes, we hope to estimate the distances over which animals are affected. This will help policy-makers determine how best to mitigate the effects of noisy activities in UK waters, and hopefully ensure a productive, healthy, and very naturally noisy future for the marine environment.