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Drs Dan Levy and Kevin Kinser, as well as EAPS graduate Prachayani Praphamontripong, contributed to a new volume on the financing of higher education

Just published by Routledge Press, the book, edited by Donald Heller and Claire Callender, documents the changes in higher education financing around the world as governments increasingly require students and their families to pay for education, in addition to the emergence of a substantial private sector within the higher education systems of many countries.

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Prof. Gilbert Valverde hosts delegation of Evaluation and Standards Policymakers from Uruguay.

At the invitation of the US Embassy in Uruguay and the US Department of State, Professor Gilbert Valverde hosted a delegation of government policy makers in evaluation and standards from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education, the National Administration of Public Education, and the newly created National Institute for Education Evaluation. In Uruguay, weaknesses in the public education system are high profile issues as rising dissatisfaction with the quality of the schools and instruction that children are receiving, particularly in rural schools, has put pressure on the government to improve education across all levels. The delegation came to discuss with Professor Valverde, an expert in both Latin American and international evaluation and standards policies and current President of the Comparative and International Education Society, topics including educational indicators, evidenced-based policymaking, teacher evaluation and educational research policies. Joining in the informal conversation were EAPS colleagues Drs. Alan Wagner, James Butterworth (Executive Director of CASDA, the Capital Area School Development Association) and doctoral candidate Ms. Gloria Zambrano.

PISA, Power and Policy: the emergence of global educational governance

Drs. Heinz-Deiter Meyer and Aaron Benavot have co-edited the most recent volume of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Education series. The book scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation’s school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world’s vast cultural and institutional diversity. This edited volume includes research by EAPS faculty Meyer, Benavot, Kathryn Schiller and doctoral student, Taya Owens.

Professor Hal Lawson received the National Cooperative Leadership Award.

The National School Development Council has bestowed one of its two National Cooperative Leadership Awards on Professor Hal A. Lawson. This award recognizes outstanding, national leadership, including demonstrated success in improving school leadership preparation and practice, facilitating collaboration with educational partners, and investing in research frameworks that benefit educational practice. Professor Lawson was honored at the Capital School Development Association’s annual award dinner, April 16, 2013.

Prof. Jason Lane and several EAPS doctoral students discussed foreign university partnerships with members of the Duke Kunshan University Preparatory Group in China.

EAPS and the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) hosted members of the team who helped establish Duke’s branch campus in Kunshan China. Bruce Jiang, Gary Zhang, and Patricia Song talked with Professor Jason Lane and EAPS students Ruirui Sun, Li Zhang, and Patrick Ziegler about foreign university partnerships in China as well as the current trends in cross-border education worldwide.

EAPS doctoral student, Paulina Berrios, has won Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Research Abroad Award.

This award allowed Berrios to conduct dissertation fieldwork in her native country during the fall 2012. This international award is part of the SYLFF fellowship program that supports graduate students in humanities and social sciences from 69 universities and consortia in 44 countries. “The Sylff program aims to identify and nurture leaders who will overcome differences such as nationality, language, ethnicity, religion, and political systems to tackle global issues, and whose high integrity and drive to address issues unique to their respective countries can make a real difference”. As a result of her research abroad, Berrios now share her experiences in a featured article at the SYLFF program website.

NAFSA Announces Kevin Kinser as Senior Fellow in Internationalization.

Kevin Kinser has been named a NAFSA Senior Fellow for Internationalization. NAFSA is the largest professional association dedicated to international education. Kinser will join seven other Fellows to help NAFSA identify and define the key cutting-edge      topics the association should be addressing to foster internationalization dialogue.

Dr. Kathryn Schiller co-authored a recently published NCES Mathematics Curriculum Study.

Dr. Kathryn Schiller has co-authored a recently published NCES Mathematics Curriculum Study, which explored the relationship between coursetaking and achievement by examining the content and challenge of two mathematics courses taught in the nation’s public high schools—algebra I and geometry. This study analyzed textbook information and usage as a means to explain the apparent disconnect between coursetaking and achievement.

Dr. Johanna Hakala, a visiting Finnish Fulbright Scholar with EAPS for March and April 2013.

Dr. Johanna Hakala is a Finnish Fulbright Scholar visiting two U.S. universities in spring 2013: North Carolina State University (Jan-Feb) and SUNY/Albany (March-April). Her Fulbright project concerns strategies for research development and their implementation, recruitment and tenure track policies, and leadership in U.S. public universities.

Institutions & Societies: a graduate student conference at Rockefeller College

SEA Change and GAPS are hosting a graduate student conference March 1 at the Rockefeller College campus. Students from 9 social science programs will present current research papers in an interdisciplinary format. The conference is designed to provide constructive criticism for graduate students preparing papers to present at national conferences; foster and encourage interdisciplinary engagements; and, build a broader sense of community among UAlbany graduate students. Register here.

Professor Aaron Benavot Gave the Valedictory Address at The Comparative Education Society of India (CESI)

The Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), as part of its annual conference held at the University of Jammu in October of 2012, invited EAPS Professor Aaron Benavot to give the Valedictory Address, entitled, “International education policy targets in the post-2015 Period: Past trends, future scenarios.”

Marcellus Taylor Spoke at Bahamas Business Outlook Seminar

Our own doctoral candidate, Marcellus Taylor, Deputy Director of Education for Planning and Development in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in the Bahamas spoke on the topic of “The Interrelations between Education and Society in the 22nd annual Bahamas Business Outlook (BBO) seminar in The Bahamas”.

CIES Annual Conference: New Orleans March 10-15, 2013

The Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the annual Comparative and International Education Society’s annual conference.

Maria Ishaq Khan got 2011-12 World Fellowship Award

Please join the department of EAPS in congratulating our own Maria Ishaq Khan as a 2011-12 World Fellowship Award recipient.

International visitor to EAPS Department

Dra. Malva Uribe Rivera Is visiting EAPS and its ICATA (International Curriculum and Textbook Archive) and EERC (Educational Evaluation Research Consortium) from September 20 to 28.

Christine Farrugia Authors Policy Brief

EAPS student and C-BERT member Christine Farrugia has authored a policy brief for the Al Qasimi Foundation.

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