Salzburg Seminar â Universities Project - Milika Dhamo

S ALZBURG 

S EMINAR 

UNIVERSITIES PROJECT 

THE FIRST FOUR YEARS 

1997–2000

MESSAGE 

FROM THE 

PRESIDENT 

AND THE 

DIRECTOR 

OF THE 

UNIVERSITIES 

PROJECT 

This report is an overview of the first four years of the Salzburg 

Seminar’s Universities Project, which was created to help promote 

higher education reform in Central and East Europe and in the Russian 

Federation. It is also an acknowledgement and expression of gratitude to 

those who made this Project possible by their generosity and their spirit 

of volunteerism. First and foremost, we owe this initiative to the 

visionary and sustained commitment of the William and Flora Hewlett 

Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which are funding the 

Universities Project and its adjunct Visiting Advisors Program, 

respectively. Without the generous and steady support of these two 

foundations, none of the activities described herein would have 

happened. We are also grateful for the Project’s growing number of 

partners and friends who have donated their time and expertise to give 

intellectual and practical guidance to the Universities Project. The 

continuing counsel of the Project’s Advisory Committee has been 

absolutely crucial to the success of our work, as has been the support of 

many other individuals who have become active participants of the 

Project. 

We believe it is fair to say that, over time, the Project has become one 

of the most active and effective interfaces between North American and 

European university leaders, not only as a neutral interface, but as an 

active advocate of transatlantic mutual learning and understanding. The 

Salzburg Seminar will continue to provide a meeting place where leaders 

in higher education can meet, exchange views, and share experiences. We 

will continue to focus on the practicalities of managing modern 

universities. It is a pleasure for us to provide this report on the first four 

years of the Universities Project and to share it with all who have 

participated in the Project thus far. 

Olin Robison 

President 

Jochen Fried 

Director, Universities Project

THE UNIVERSITIES PROJECT: HISTORY AND OVERVIEW 

Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 

Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 

TABLE OF 

CONTENTS 

Technology and the Universities Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 

Initiatives Resulting from the Universities Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 

Possible Extension of the Universities Project to Other Regions . . . . .10 

Universities Project Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 

Universities Project List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 

VISITING ADVISORS PROGRAM 

Background and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 

Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 

Toward Improvement and Continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 

Case Study: VAP Trip to the Budapest University of Technology 

and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 

VAP List of Consultant Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 

Salzburg Seminar Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Schloss Leopoldskron is 

home to the Salzburg 

Seminar and the 

Universities Project. 

The Universities Project 

is made possible 

by a generous grant from the 

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 

The Salzburg Seminar is deeply grateful to the William 

and Flora Hewlett Foundation for its sustained support 

of the Universities Project. Beginning with a planning 

grant in 1996 and continuing with program funding 

from 1997 to 2002, the Hewlett Foundation’s vision of 

and commitment to practical discussions on higher 

education reform has guided the work of the 

Universities Project.

RATIONALE 

It is the goal of the Universities Project to help build, or rebuild, linkages between the 

universities in the eastern part of Europe, from Prague to Vladivostok, and their 

counterparts in North America and West Europe—linkages that had been cut during the 

time when Europe was divided and the free flow of ideas and people so essential for the 

academic world was disrupted. When the Universities Project began in 1997, the first 

enthusiasm about the momentous political changes in East Europe had already started to 

fade and the hardships of the transition to democracy and market economies were 

becoming increasingly manifest. This was a timely moment to initiate a project focused 

on strengthening the institutional underpinnings of higher education. While many 

outside assistance programs had provided timely and useful support for individual 

scholars during the initial period of transition in Europe, the challenges faced by 

institutions in managing the difficult and often complex process of self-renewal 

remained largely unaddressed. The Universities Project has been able to meet some of 

these needs by creating a forum for sustained dialogue about pertinent issues on 

institutional reform and by establishing professional networks of university leaders from 

East Europe and the Russian Federation with their peers from North America and West 

Europe. 

The Universities Project is a multi-year series of conferences and symposia 

convening senior-level representatives of higher education from the designated regions 

with their counterparts from North America and West Europe. Initially, discussions 

focused on three major themes: 

1. University Administration and Finance 

HISTORY 

AND 

OVERVIEW 

2. Academic Structure and Governance within the University 

3. Meeting the Students’ Needs, and the Role of Students in Institutional Affairs 

As a result of discussions during the Project’s first year of programming in 

1997, two additional themes were adopted: 

4. Technology in Higher Education 

5. The University and Civil Society 

Beginning in the Project’s second year in 1998, the core topics have been 

framed each year within an overarching theme that represents a current and 

timely issue in higher education. 

• 1998: Institutional Autonomy: a review of higher education reform 

underway at universities and university systems 

• 1999 and 2000: Globalization and Higher Education 

• 2001: The Social and Civic Responsibilities of the University 

Between 1997 and 2000, the Salzburg Seminar held a total of fifteen Universities 

Project symposia and three plenary convocations. During this period, more than 600 

individuals representing approximately 250 institutions and universities have 

participated in the Project. As a result of these frequent meetings, a significant 

transatlantic network of university leaders has developed. Additionally, more than 

twenty teams of volunteer consultants have visited host universities in Central and East 

Europe and the Russian Federation, offering their time and expertise to assist colleagues 

and institutions to carry out meaningful and effective reform. Although the experience 

and institutional context of Project participants may differ greatly, all are committed to 

commons goals: learning from one another how to make the higher education sector 

more effective in managing institutional change, supporting economic and social 

development, and strengthening democracy. Given the focus on transformations of 

Peter Scott (Kingston 

University, UK) and Salzburg 

Seminar President Olin 

Robison at the January 1999 

Plenary Convocation. 

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higher education in Central and East Europe and in the Russian Federation, the rationale 

of the Universities Project has expanded to include the following goals: 

• to deepen and broaden the understanding of the problems, achievements, and 

perspectives of the higher education reform process in this region; 

• to advance the development of a self-sustaining system of higher education in 

these countries; 

• to engage decision-makers from the participating universities in discussion on 

transnational trends and crucial challenges confronting higher education 

institutions worldwide, and to increase mutual comprehension and 

understanding across different national experiences; and 

• to develop meaningful linkages and partnerships among participants and their 

institutions. 

One of the lessons for those involved in the Universities Project was the realization 

that universities are extremely robust and resilient institutions. While the process of 

reforming higher education in the post-communist countries has been halting and 

uneven, it is also the case that a great many universities and other institutions of higher 

education throughout the region continue to benefit from an extraordinary level of 

commitment from talented and dedicated men and women working against great odds, 

yet achieving considerable success. The Universities Project has afforded many from 

outside the region with an opportunity to meet the reformers, share their concerns, and 

gain a better sense of the problems, accomplishments, and prospects of the higher 

education reform process in Central and East Europe and the Russian Federation. 

Madeleine Green (American 

Council on Education, USA) 

provides an introduction to 

the symposium’s first topic 

of discussion, Leadership 

and Management of 

Universities. 

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CHRONOLOGY 

1996 

The Salzburg Seminar received a planning grant from the Hewlett Foundation to 

develop a project to bring together top-level administrators from universities in 

West Europe, the USA, and Canada with their counterparts in Central and East Europe, 

the Russian Federation, and the Newly Independent States. Activities in 1996 included: 

1997 

• researching existing initiatives to determine the need for such a project, and its 

particular niche, focus, and parameters; 

• the hiring of a project director; 

• the establishment of a Universities Project Advisory Committee (p. 11); and 

• a meeting of the Advisory Committee to lay the groundwork for the Project. 

The first year of programming consisted of a plenary convocation and three 

symposia. The January plenary meeting brought together sixty senior-level 

university representatives and higher education experts from Central and East Europe 

(CEE), West Europe, the Russian Federation, and North America. The first symposium, 

in March, gathered teams of rectors and senior-level administrators from eight CEE 

universities. The next symposium, in July, convened rectors and administrators from 

fifteen Russian universities. In September, the third symposium consisted of participants 

from nine CEE universities. All symposia included representatives from American, 

Canadian, and West European universities and colleges. 

With the advice and counsel of the Advisory Committee and friends of the Project, 

the following refinements were made during 1997, which have significantly enhanced 

the Project’s effectiveness:

1998 

1. Teams of administrators from the same university were invited, rather than one 

individual (i.e., the rector alone) as was originally proposed. The goal was (and 

is) to increase the likelihood that information from the symposium will “take 

hold” within a university. 

2. Separate symposia were held for CEE and Russian universities, rather than 

mixing institutions of the two regions at each symposium. A number of reasons 

contributed to this decision: a desire to allow the Project to respond to the 

immediate needs of two regions that face related but 

different concerns and challenges; a recognition that the 

level of English is generally not as high among Russian 

university administrators as it is among their CEE 

colleagues; and the possibility of residual political tensions 

from the Communist era. The decision has been a sound 

one and has allowed the Project to design symposia that 

address the specific issues and needs of the two regions. 

3. Related to (2.), simultaneous interpretation is provided at 

the Russian symposia. Though costly, it was determined 

that in order to fully engage Russian participation, it would 

be necessary to conduct the Russian programs in both 

Russian and English. These symposia are unique among 

the programs at the Salzburg Seminar, where all other 

events are conducted in English only. 

It became clear during the second year of the Project that its reputation in both regions 

was already strong and attractive to potential participants. The year included the 

following innovations: 

• The Project gained the support of new and influential individuals in higher 

education and strengthened friendships by inviting strong contributors to return 

for a second, and in some cases third, Universities Project experience. 

• The Project was able to include an additional symposium (two CEE and two 

Russian, plus a January plenary meeting) due to supplemental funding provided 

by the Austrian government. 

• The Project secured a significant grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to 

underwrite the Visiting Advisors Program (VAP) for over five years, thereby 

providing a site-visit aspect to complement the work being done in Salzburg. 

The VAP is described in greater detail on pages 27–31. 

A total of five meetings of the Universities Project took place during 1998: 

Plenary Convocation (January): Approximately sixty rectors, presidents, and senior 

representatives of higher education organizations met to review the Project’s work-todate 

and to discuss the upcoming year’s slate of programs. 

CEE Symposia (April and September): The 1998 CEE symposia continued the design 

established during the Project’s first year; that is, teams of three senior representatives 

Robin Farquhar (Carleton 

University, Canada) enjoys 

a response to his 

presentation as John 

Davies (Anglia Polytechnic 

University, UK) looks on. 

Due to a generous grant from the Austrian Federal 

Ministry for Education, Science and Culture in 1998, the 

Universities Project was able to hold an additional 

symposium that year. The Salzburg Seminar acknowledges 

with gratitude the support of the Ministry. 

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Graham Spanier 

(Pennsylvania State 

University, USA), Irvin Reid 

(Wayne State University, 

USA), Universities Project 

Director Jochen Fried, and 

Peter Magrath (NASULGC, 

USA) at the February 

2000 symposium. 

from eight to ten CEE universities met with senior university administrators and higher 

education specialists from West Europe and North America to discuss various aspects of 

higher education reform. 

Russian Symposia (June and December): In consultation with the Project’s Advisory 

Committee and with select representatives of the Russian higher education community, 

it was decided that two issues would serve as the foci of the 1998 Russian symposia: 

1. the devolution of authority of the Russian higher education system from the 

federal to the regional level (June symposium); 

2. leadership and management training (December symposium). 

The participant composition of the June symposium reflected the theme of the 

“regionalization” of the Russian higher education system, and brought together 

representatives of three significant educational and 

industrial regional centers (Voronezh, Kazan, and 

Novosibirsk), as well as senior-level representatives 

of the Russian Ministry of Education. 

The December symposium focused on issues of 

leadership and management training. Professor John 

Davies, pro-vice chancellor of Anglia Polytechnic 

University in the UK and a leader of similar seminars 

for the Association of European Universities, led a 

faculty of seven specialists who worked intensively 

with senior university administrators of select Russian 

universities. 

Visiting Advisors Program (VAP): From the outset of the Universities Project, 

members of the Advisory Committee and others suggested and supported the addition of 

a site-visit dimension to the Project. It was felt that this would increase the value of the 

Universities Project in the following ways: 

• extend the work of the symposia in Salzburg in a concrete and applied way to 

the participating CEE and Russian institutions; 

• create extended linkages between individuals and institutions across national 

and regional borders; 

• provide a source of case study materials to be used at Universities Project 

symposia in Salzburg; 

• increase the possibility that specific reform suggestions and advice may “take 

root” and permeate CEE and Russian institutions; and 

• provide a multiplier effect whereby host VAP institutions might in turn work 

with sister institutions in their own countries to encourage higher education 

reform efforts. 

In 1998, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded a grant to the Salzburg Seminar to 

underwrite the Visiting Advisors Program. The VAP consists of on-site visits by North 

American and European senior-level university administrators to CEE and Russian 

institutions at the invitation of the host institutions’ rectors. Teams of three to five 

volunteer advisors, all of whom have participated in at least one Universities Project 

symposium in Salzburg, visit host institutions for a period of four to six days. They 

offer advice and support on specific issues of reform identified jointly by the host 

institutions’ senior administration and the visiting team. After a six-month start-up 

period, visits commenced in December 1998. 

More information on the VAP may be found on pages 27–38. 

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1999 

In the third full year of programming, the Project’s focus shifted from assessing 

change at universities to considering the effects of globalization on higher education 

in the context of the five main themes of the Universities Project. 

Plenary Convocation (January): senior-level representatives of universities and higher 

education organizations from North America, West Europe, CEE, and the Russian 

Federation gathered for discussions on the following: 

• Globalization and Higher Education, A Keynote Overview 

• Globalization and National and State Systems 

• Globalization and the Academic Disciplines 

• Globalization and the Local University 

In addition to the plenary presentations, participants at the Plenary Convocation 

were divided into working groups to discuss the following topics: 

• Globalizing the Curriculum 

• The University and Global Civil Society Issues 

• The Clash of Cultures 

• New Information Technologies: Source of Fear or Hope 

CEE Symposia (April and October): These two symposia convened 

senior-level representatives of CEE universities with peers from West 

Europe and North America. The content mirrored that of the Plenary 

Convocation and focused on issues concerning the effects of 

globalization on higher education. Discussions at both symposia were 

of an extremely high caliber and reflected the timeliness and 

relevance of the globalization theme. 

Russian Symposium (July): This symposium brought together delegations from thirteen 

Russian universities with senior-level university representatives from North America 

and West Europe and was entitled “The Responsive and Innovative Russian University: 

Universities and their Role in National and Regional Development.” The goal was to 

help assist Russian universities in developing their ability to be innovative in the face of 

extreme resource shortages, and to assist them in assuming a leading role in the 

economic and social development of their regions in the context of the greater 

decentralization taking place in Russian higher education. 

Future Leaders Symposium, A New Initiative (November): One of the stated goals of 

the Universities Project is to assist in the development of future university leaders. To 

this end, the Project departed from the format of previous symposia and experimented 

with a new format and thematic focus for the final symposium of 1999. 

Rather than a gathering of peers at the senior level, the November symposium 

featured a junior-level group of Fellows who worked closely with an invited group of 

senior university administrators. Selected rectors and presidents of universities who had 

participated in prior symposia were requested to nominate junior faculty members 

whom they considered to be potential leaders in higher education in the coming years. 

Fellows and Faculty were from the Russian Federation, Europe (East, Central, and 

West), and North America. 

The November symposium also represented a new direction for the Universities 

Project, and the Seminar as a whole, in that the symposium report was created for 

posting on the Seminar’s web page, rather than the previous practice of printing the 

report and having it available only as a hard-copy. Symposium reports are posted at 

www.salzburgseminar.org/up. 

Universities Project Russian 

Program Coordinator 

Helene Kamensky with 

Boris Reznik (Far Eastern 

State University, Russian 

Federation) at the 

April 2000 symposium. 

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Andris Barblan (European 

University Association), 

makes a point as Jürgen 

Mittelstrass (University of 

Konstanz, Germany) listens. 

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2000 

In 2000, the Universities Project continued its focus on the globalization theme, while 

at the same time turning greater attention toward the development of the next 

generation of university leaders. The schedule of programs was changed in several 

significant ways: 

• There was no Plenary Convocation in 2000. Such gatherings were very useful 

during the early years of the Project but became less necessary after having 

compiled a lengthy list of participating universities. An additional symposium 

was held in 2000, which allowed all programs to focus at the pragmatic and 

applied level. 

• In July, the Seminar extended the work of the Universities Project into its 

“Core Session” program by offering Session 379: Alternate Systems and 

Structures for Higher Education: Public Needs and Institutional Response for 

the 21st Century. As each Salzburg Seminar session typically has Fellows from 

thirty-five to forty countries, this session also extended the theme of 

“Globalization and Higher Education” to a fully international audience. The 

event was co-chaired by Dr. Dennis O’Brien, president emeritus, University of 

Rochester, New York, USA; and Dr. Jairam Reddy, former vice chancellor, 

University of Durban-Westville, and chair, National Commission on Higher 

Education, South Africa. Dr. Jochen Fried, director of the Universities Project, 

served as director of Session 379. (This session was supported in part by 

Universities Project funding.) 

• Due to the positive results of the November 1999 symposium, a similar 

symposium in September 2000 was held along the same model (i.e., Faculty- 

Fellow format, combining Russian and CEE representation, and focusing on 

university leadership development). It had become apparent that 

there was added value to inviting future university leaders from 

both regions at the junior-administrative level where the common 

denominators of English and greater international experience serve 

as bridges that may not exist between their more senior colleagues. 

CEE Symposia (February and November): The February 

symposium considered the degree to which the university can 

encourage the process of reconciliation and the development of civil 

society in regions experiencing ethnic and cultural conflict, in this 

case Southeast Europe/former Yugoslavia. This sub-theme is 

consonant with the Project’s fifth core theme, “The Role of the 

University in Civil Society.” Three of the presentations delivered at 

this symposium, by Jan Sadlak, Peter Magrath, and Srbijanka 

Turajlic, were subsequently published in Higher Education in 

Europe, the quarterly review of the European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO- 

CEPES, Vol. XXV, No. 2, 2000). 

The November symposium focused on the role of universities in the Baltic Sea 

region (Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, northern Poland and Germany, and northwest 

Russian Federation). Specifically, the symposium explored the potential of the 

universities in this region to be promoters and incubators of social change, economic 

innovation, and European integration as viewed through the prism of the globalization 

theme. 

Russian Symposium (April): This was a traditional Universities Project Russian 

symposium that continued the work with the Russian higher education community. The 

symposium explored the expanding regional role of the university in the Russian

Federation, and the extent to which Russian universities may become more 

entrepreneurial in response to the challenges they face. 

Core Session 379: Alternate Systems and Structures for Higher Education: Public 

Needs and Institutional Response for the 21st Century (July): This was a traditional 

Salzburg Seminar “Core Session,” but resulted from the work of the Universities 

Project; Fellows and Faculty from thirty-one countries discussed the evolving role of 

universities at the outset of the new millennium. 

Future Leaders Symposium (September): Based on the November 1999 symposium, 

this was a meeting of junior-level university administrators from North America, 

Europe, and the Russian Federation who were nominated by their senior-level 

colleagues. They met with a small faculty of senior-level administrators (university 

presidents and rectors) to discuss issues relating to “Globalization and the University.” 

2001 

In 2001, the Universities Project adopted a new overarching theme: “The Social and 

Civic Responsibilities of the University,” the fifth of the Project’s five core themes. 

All Project symposia in 2001 will focus on this subject, while incorporating the other 

four core themes into the discussions. 

TECHNOLOGY AND THE UNIVERSITIES PROJECT 

From the outset, technology has been envisioned as a significant aspect of the Project 

in order to disseminate its work to as broad an audience as possible. The following 

components are either currently in place or are being planned: 

• Website: the Universities Project features a full and expansive website within the 

Seminar’s web domain. Information regarding past and future symposia may be 

obtained from this site. Texts of presentations and related articles may be 

downloaded from the Universities Project Library: www.salzburgseminar.org/up 

• Electronic reports: as mentioned above, the decision was made in late 1999 to 

post all Project reports since 1999 on the Project’s website so that they may be 

accessed worldwide. Printed versions are created only as a derivative of the 

electronic version and then only as necessary. 

• Electronic newsletter: an online newsletter is currently being established to be 

e-mailed to all who have participated in the Project. This resource, which will 

be updated monthly and posted on the Project website, will be a repository of 

current information on higher education issues of interest to the Universities 

Project community—notices of upcoming conferences; newly established 

programs; announcements of foundation grants; notices of recently published 

papers, articles, books; updates on higher education legislation, etc. Readers 

will be invited to submit postings to be added to the site. 

• Electronic discussion group of higher education papers: a series of 

discussion groups in which a friend of the Universities Project will post a 

recent paper written by him or her is being proposed. A controlled group of 

Universities Project alumni will be invited to read, comment, and chat on-line 

with the author for one to two weeks. This proposed program allows for the 

continuation of interactions between Project participants who meet in Salzburg, 

encourages Universities Project alumni to post new scholarly material, and 

refreshes itself with the introduction of new material each month or so. 

• E-symposia: Universities Project staff are investigating the possibility of 

holding a version of an on-line symposium in 2002. 

“I firmly believe the 

Universities Project 

and the Visiting 

Advisors Program, 

are furthering needed 

changes in universities 

vital to their 

countries, and also 

helping all who care 

about universities 

worldwide to become 

closer and really 

linked.” 

Peter Magrath 

NASULGC, USA 

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Faculty, Resource Persons, 

and Seminar Staff at 

Session 379: Seminar 

President Olin Robison, 

Joyce Moock, David 

Gardner, William Saint, 

Dennis O’Brien, Ludmila 

Verbitskaya, Akilagpa 

Sawyerr, Jairam Reddy, 

Walter Gmelch, John W. 

Cook, Andrew Gonzalez, 

Wang Shenghong, and 


Director Jochen Fried. 

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INITIATIVES RESULTING FROM THE 


One of the hallmarks of the Salzburg Seminar in its fifty-three-year history has been 

its ability to convene individuals from a wide variety of geographical and 

professional backgrounds for the purpose of frank, open, and mutually respectful 

dialogue in the neutral confines of Schloss Leopoldskron. This tradition has extended to 

the Universities Project as well. 

The atmosphere at Universities Project symposia is characterized by a clear 

appreciation of the fact that the diversity of higher education systems in various 

countries is a valuable asset, and that for 

existing problems there is no single solution, 

no single recipe at hand that could be applied 

universally. It is the open exchange about 

differences and commonalities that is central to 

the Universities Project’s mission, and many 

symposia participants have created 

relationships and interacted with counterparts 

from other parts of the world in a way that 

would not have been possible otherwise. It is 

due to the nature of the Universities Project 

that there cannot be an inventory of lasting 

contacts, on-going collaboration, or joint 

projects. But there is no doubt that the 

symposia have served as a catalyst initiating 

numerous formal and informal linkages. 

In some cases, either directly or indirectly, new initiatives have sprung up from 

conversations, relationships, or ideas that have taken root at a Universities Project 

symposium. Below are brief descriptions of such initiatives, which demonstrate the 

multiplier effect of the Universities Project. 

Salzburg Seminar Core Session 379: Alternate Systems and Structures for 

Higher Education: Public Needs and Institutional Response for the 21st 

Century (July 1–8, 2000) 

In order to extend the issues considered at Universities Project symposia to a fully 

global (and traditional Salzburg Seminar) audience, the Seminar offered a joint Core 

Session/Universities Project program. Drawing on the Seminar’s long history of sessions 

on higher education as well as on the recent experience of its Universities Project, this 

session explored the changing perceptions and new institutional paradigms necessary to 

keep higher education responsive to rapidly changing societal needs. The session involved 

Faculty and Fellows from previous core sessions on higher education and Universities 

Project symposia, as well as Fellows selected through the standard application process. 

Faculty 

Dennis O’Brien (Co-Chair), President Emeritus, University of Rochester, New York, 

USA 

Jairam Reddy (Co-Chair), Former Vice Chancellor, University of Durban-Westville; 

Chair, National Commission on Higher Education, South Africa 

David Gardner, President Emeritus, University of California; President Emeritus, 

University of Utah, USA 

Andrew Gonzalez, Secretary, Department of Education, Culture, and Sports, Manila, 

Philippines

William Saint, Principal Education Specialist (African Region), The World Bank, 

Washington, DC, USA 

Akilagpa Sawyerr, Director of Research, African Association of Universities, Accra; 

Professor of Law, and Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana 

Ludmila Verbitskaya, Rector, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation 

Wang Shenghong, President, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 

Resource Persons 

John W. Cook, President, The Henry Luce Foundation, New York, USA 

Walter Gmelch, Dean, College of Education, Iowa State University, Ames, USA 

Joyce Moock, Associate Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA 

Salzburg Seminar Special Session: Dartmouth College Conference Series on 

Globalization and Higher Education (June 27–30, 2001) 

Dartmouth College, in consultation with the Salzburg Seminar’s Universities Project, 

is coordinating a series of conferences that will examine both the impact of globalization 

on American higher education and the role of colleges and universities in the new 

millennium. The goal of the conference series is to create a White Paper that can help 

guide university decision-makers as they begin incorporating globalization issues into their 

institutions’ mission, curricula, infrastructure, and research. An initial planning meeting 

was held at Schloss Leopoldskron in August 1999. As a result, Dartmouth College has 

invited leading American institutions to two conferences in Hanover, New Hampshire, one 

in November 2000 and the second in October 2001, that will examine the topic of 

globalization by framing the key issues and by pointing to possible strategies for 

addressing them. At the June 2001 meeting in Salzburg, the resulting 

draft document will be reviewed and critiqued by international 

representatives of leading higher education institutions to address the 

needs of the global academic community more effectively. The final 

White Paper will be distributed internationally as the basis for a 

continued dialogue with the larger academic community. 

Salzburg Seminar Special Session: Higher Education in 

Emerging Economies: Patterns, Policies, and Trends into 

the 21st Century (July 7–11, 2001) 

This special session, developed in collaboration with the 

Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, The 

Henry Luce Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, will 

bring together leading higher education specialists and senior 

university administrators to discuss the evolving nature and role of 

higher education in developing countries. The purposes of the 

symposium are to review available information about patterns, 

policies, and trends in higher education; identify current human capital and institutional 

resources engaged in higher education analysis; and brainstorm about actions that could 

help national and international institutions perform more effectively to meet future 

challenges. 

UNESCO-CEPES Conference 

Since Dr. Jan Sadlak, a member of the Universities Project Advisory Committee, 

has assumed the position of director of the UNESCO-CEPES (European Centre for 

Higher Education) in Bucharest, Romania, special efforts have been made to maximize 

the synergies between this organization and the Universities Project. The first result of 

such efforts took place from April 12 to 15, 2000, at Schloss Leopoldskron in the form 

of an Invitational Meeting on “Ten Years After and Looking Ahead: A Review of the 

Salzburg Seminar President 

Olin Robison and 

Jan Sadlak (UNESCO- 

CEPES) on the 

Schloss terrace. 

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“The Universities 

Project brings together 

individuals who have a 

common concern for 

the well-being of their 

institutions, while 

respecting the qualities 

that reflect different 

histories of higher 

education, different 

cultures, and different 

responses to similar 

challenges—all these 

differences are what 

make our discussions 

within the Universities 

Project so stimulating, 

instructive, and 

worthwhile.” 

László V. Frenyó 

Szent Istvan University, Hungary 

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Transformations of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe.” The purpose of 

this meeting was to critique a book-length manuscript consisting of thirteen case studies 

on institutional reform. It was supplemented by a synthesis report on the main themes 

and topics, written by Peter Scott, vice-chancellor of Kingston University, UK, that 

characterized the development of higher education in this region since 1989. The book 

has since been published under the same title (Bucharest 2000, ISBN 92-9069-159-X). 

An excerpt from the book preface reads: 

“A preliminary draft of Professor Scott’s synthesis and six of the case studies (…) 

were the objects of a special discussion at an expert seminar (…) jointly organized by 

UNESCO-CEPES and the Salzburg Seminar, specifically within its Universities Project. 

The comments and suggestions made at this three-day meeting regarding the 

transformation of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe are reflected 

principally in Professor Scott’s synthesis. The Salzburg Seminar Universities Project, 

consisting of a multi-year series of conferences and symposia on systemic and 

institutional changes in governance, academic design, structure, and mission in higher 

education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, and the other 

successor states of the Soviet Union, was a logical partner for the organization of this 

seminar given the complementarity of its principal objectives and those of UNESCO- 

CEPES.” 

Estonia Project 

At the March 1997 symposium of the Universities Project, Dr. Arno Loessner, 

senior policy fellow at the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration, 

met a group of senior administrators from Tartu University of Estonia. Dr. Loessner, 

who has extensive experience in university foundation administration, spoke at length 

with the Tartu delegation at the Plenary Convocations in March 1997 and later in 

January 1998 about the possible establishment of a foundation in support of the 

university. From those early conversations has grown a significant project involving 

funding from The World Bank’s Fiscal Decentralization Initiative. The project has 

resulted in the establishment of the Saaremaa Foundation, a consortium of Estonian 

universities. The Foundation, along with the International Union of Local Authorities 

(IULA), a world-wide organization of local governments and the University of 

Delaware, is developing a program of training and research to support local fiscal 

decentralization in Estonia. 

POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF THE 

UNIVERSITIES PROJECT TO OTHER REGIONS 

There has been enormous interest in the work of the Universities Project among the 

Salzburg Seminar’s extensive global network of alumni, friends, and supporters. It 

is clear that the issues being discussed at the Project in regard to CEE and Russian 

higher education are equally relevant to higher education systems in other regions of the 

world. Many contacts of the Universities Project have expressed a strong interest in 

seeing the work of the Universities Project extended to other countries and regions. 

As a result, the Salzburg Seminar is beginning to look into the feasibility of a 

possible Phase II of the Universities Project in which its work would be extended to 

other regions. Areas under consideration include parts of Asia, the Middle East, Latin 

America, and Anglophone Africa. 

The feasibility of extending the Project to other regions will continue to be explored 

during the remainder of the Project’s current funding (through 2002). Such an extension 

of the Project could only be undertaken if funding became available.

Central and East Europe 

Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector, Tartu University; Former Minister of Education, Estonia 

Ladislav Cerych, Director, Education Policy Center, Charles University, Prague, Czech 

Republic 

László Frenyó, Professor of Immunophysiology, Szent Istvan University, Hungary; 

Former President of the Hungarian Higher Education and Research Council, and of the 

Hungarian Rectors Conference 

Josef Jarab, Professor of American Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech 

Republic; Former Rector, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 

Piotr Ploszajski, Head, Department of Management Theory, Warsaw School of 

Economics; Former Director General, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 

UNIVERSITIES 

PROJECT 

ADVISORY 

COMMITTEE 

Russian Federation 

Vladimir Vasil’evich Gusev, Chairman, Association of Rectors, Black Earth Region; 

Former Rector, Voronezh State University 

Victor Antonovich Sadovnichy, Rector, Moscow State University 

Gennady Alekseevich Yagodin, Rector, International University, Moscow 

Vasily Maximilianovich Zhurakovsky, First Deputy Minister, Ministry of General and 

Professional Education 

USA/Canada 

Philip G. Altbach, Professor of Higher Education and 

Director, Center for International Higher Education, 

Boston College, Massachusetts 

Robin Farquhar, Professor of Public Administration and 

Former President, Carleton University, Ottawa 

Madeleine Green, Vice President, American Council on 

Education, Washington, DC 

D. Bruce Johnstone, Professor of Higher Education and 

Former Chancellor, State University of New York (SUNY) 

at Buffalo 

C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of State 

Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), 

Washington, DC 

Daniel C. Matuszewski, Chair, Board of Governors Executive Committee and Former 

President, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, DC 

Anthony W. Morgan, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, 

and Former Vice President, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 

West Europe 

Andris Barblan, Secretary General, European University Association, Geneva, 

Switzerland 

John Davies, Dean of the Graduate School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex, UK 

Raoul Kneucker, Director General, Scientific Research and International Affairs, 

Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Vienna, Austria 

Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES, Bucharest, Romania 

James Wimberley, Head of the Technical Co-operation and Assistance Section, 

Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 

Peter Magrath (National 

Association of State 

Universities and 

Land-Grant Colleges 

(NASULGC), USA) and 

László Frenyó (Szent Istvan 

University, Hungary) listen 

to Dan Matuszewski 

(International Research and 

Exchanges Board 

(IREX), USA). 

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UNIVERSITIES 

PROJECT 

LIST OF 

PARTICIPANTS 

(1997–2000) 

(* denotes Advisory Committee member) 

Note: Titles and institutional affiliations are those at the time of participation and may 

have subsequently changed. 

ALBANIA 

Tirana University 

Milika Dhamo, Head, Department of 

Psychology and Education, and 

Assistant Professor, Social Sciences 

Faculty 

Nester Thereska, Rector; President, 

Albanian Rectors’ Conference 

Arthur Mettinger, Vice Rector for 

Educational and International Affairs 

Helmut Schramke, Project Leader, 

Logistical Center 

Vienna University of Economics 

and Business Administration 

Barbara Sporn, Associate Professor, 

Department of Information Systems 

“It is a pleasure to 

watch dedicated 

scholars/administrators 

design and carry out a 

world-class program 

of challenging 

cross-cultural 

communication and 

multilateral education. 

It is even more of a 

privilege to be a 

participant in the 

program. This is a 

cutting-edge cultural 

initiative that deserves 

further development 

and support.” 

Dan Matuszewski, 

IREX, USA 

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ARMENIA 

Yerevan State University 

Eduard Ghazaryan, Pro Rector for 

Development 

Ludmila Haroutunian, Head, 

Department of Sociology 

Karo Karapetyan, Dean, Faculty of 

Romance and Germanic Philology 

Rafael Matevossian, Vice Rector for 

International Relations 

AUSTRIA 

Karl-Franzens University, Graz 

Wolfgang Benedek, Professor, Institute 

of International Law and International 

Relations; Chairman, World University 

Service 

Helmut Konrad, Rector 

Lothar Zechlin, Rector 

Federal Ministry for Education, 

Science and Culture, Vienna 

*Raoul Kneucker, Director General, 

Scientific Research and International 

Affairs 

Anneliese Stoklaska, Director, Multilateral 

Relations 

Barbara Weitgruber, Director, 

Department for International Relations, 

and Directorate for Higher Education 

Universities Board of Trustees, Vienna 

Erwin Bundschuh, Chair of the Board 

University of Agricultural Sciences, 

Vienna 

Leopold März, Rector 

University of Salzburg 

Adolf Haslinger, Rector 

Mario Kostal, Assistant, Institute of 

Constitutional and Administrative Law; 

Vice Director of the University China- 

Center 

Brigitte Winklehner, Vice Rector for 

Foreign Relations 

University of Vienna 

Ulrike Felt, Head, Social Studies of 

Science, Institute for the Philosophy and 

Social Studies of Science 

BELARUS 

Belarus State University, Minsk 

Anatoli Zelenkov, Dean, Faculty of 

Philosophy and Economics 

International Institute of Labor and 

Social Relations, Minsk 

Vladimir Grabaourov, Head, 

Information Technologies 

Tatiana Rousetskaia, Dean, Foreign 

Economic Relations and International 

Law Departments 

BELGIUM 

Catholic University of Leuven 

Karel Tavernier, General 

Administrator 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 

Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka 

Nenad Suzic, Minister of Education 

University of Mostar “Dzemal Bijedic” 

Fuad Catovic, Dean, Mechanical 

Engineering Faculty 

University of Sarajevo 

Muharem Avdispahic, Vice Rector for 

Academic Affairs and Youth 

Srebren Dizdar, Professor, Faculty of 

Philosophy; President, World University 

Service Bosnia and Herzegovina 

University of Tuzla 

Jasenko Karamehic, Vice Rector for 

Research and Science 

BULGARIA 

“D. A. Tsenov” Academy of Economics, 

Svishtov 

Atanas Damjanov, Associate Professor, 

Department of International and 

Economic Relations 

New Bulgarian University, Sofia 

Bogdan Bogdanov, Chairman of the 

Board of Trustees 

Naoum Iakimov, Lecturer; Scientific 

Secretary General, Bulgarian Academy 

of Sciences

Sergei Ignatov, Associate Professor, 

History and Egyptology Program 

Toma Tomov, Member, Board of 

Trustees 

Sofia University “St. Kliment 

Ohridski” 

Dimitar Denkov, Lecturer, Faculty of 

Philosophy 

Ekaterina Draganova-Chorbanova, 

Vice Rector and Assistant Professor 

Dimitar Ivanov, Vice Rector 

Ivan Lalov, Rector 

Maya Pentcheva, Vice Rector, Student 

Affairs and International Relations 

Borislav Toshev, Vice Rector, 

Department of Physical Chemistry 

Technical University of Sofia 

Stancho Stamov, Professor, 

Department of Heating and 

Refrigeration 

Technical University of Varna 

Georgi Dishliev, Vice Rector 

Assen Nedev, Rector 

University of Rousse 

Marco Todorov, Head of Computer 

Center; Former Minister of Education 

and Science 

Marijan Seruga, Vice Rector, Faculty 

of Food Technology 

University of Rijeka 

Darko Stefan, Secretary, Department of 


University of Split 

Petar Slapnicar, Professor of Electrical 

Engineering; Former Rector 

Sonja Valcic, Vice Dean, Faculty of 

Philosophy 

Igor Zanchi, Vice Rector 

University of Zagreb 

Gvozden Flego, Professor, Department 

of Philosophy 

Miroslav Furic, Professor and Member 

of the Board of Governors 

Helena Jasna Mencer, Vice Rector 

Goran Ivan Sojat, Student, Faculty of 

Political Sciences 

Marijan Sunjic, Former Rector 

CANADA 

Association of Universities and 

Colleges of Canada, Ontario 

Sally Brown, Senior Vice President 

Robert Giroux, President and CEO 

Carleton University, Ottawa 

*Robin Farquhar, Professor of Public 

Administration; Former President 

Timothy Pychyl, Professor of 

Psychology; Former Associate Dean of 

Students 

McGill University, Montreal 

Janet Donald, Professor, Centre for 

University Teaching and Learning and 

the Department of Educational and 

Counseling Psychology 

University of Northern British 

Columbia, Prince George 

K. George Pedersen, Chancellor 

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 

Fudan University, Shanghai 

Huang Yongmin, Director, External 

Affairs Office 

CROATIA 

University of Osijek 

Lidija Getto, Head, International 

Relations 

Gordana Kralik, Rector, Faculty of 

Agriculture 

CZECH REPUBLIC 

Charles University, Prague 

*Ladislav Cerych, Director, Education 

Policy Center 

Martin Potucek, Director, Institute of 

Sociological Sciences 

Aleš Vlk, Student, Faculty of Law 

Masaryk University, Brno 

Michael Dolezal, Fundraising and 

Development Assistant, Office of 

Research and Development 

Frantisek Gale, Registrar 

Jan Pavlik, Vice Dean, International 

Relations 

Jan Pazdziora, Manager, Computer 

Systems Unit 

Jiri Zlatuska, Rector 

Ministry of Education, Prague 

Emanuel Ondracek, Deputy Minister 

Palacký University, Olomouc 

Milada Hirschova, Vice Dean for 

Foreign Affairs 

*Josef Jarab, Professor, Department of 

English and American Studies; Former 

Jaak Aaviksoo (Tartu 

University, Estonia, and 

Former Minister of 

Education) presents at 

the September 2000 

symposium. 

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Sister Janice Ryan (Trinity 

College, USA) moderates a 

plenary discussion. 

Participants from Russian 

universities at the April 2000 

symposium listen to a 

presentation via 

simultaneous interpretation. 

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Rector, Central European University, 

Budapest 

Jiri Jirka, Financial Officer 

Michal Malacka, Vice Dean for 

Foreign Affairs, Faculty of Law 

Borivoj Sarapatka, Vice Dean, Faculty 

of Science 

Technical University of Liberec 

Zdenek Kus, Head of Academic Senate 

Aleš Linka, Vice Dean, Faculty of 

Textile Engineering 

David Lukáš, Rector 

University of West Bohemia, Pilzn 

Jiri Beck, Dean, Faculty of Economics 

Jaromir Horak, Associate Professor, 

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 

Vlastimil Skocil, Dean, Department of 

Technology 

DENMARK 

Aalborg University 

Staffan Zetterholm, Jean Monnet 

Professor in European Political 

Integration 

Copenhagen Business School 

Herbert Kells, Visiting Professor, 

Department of Management, Politics 

and Philosophy 

ESTONIA 

Concordia International University, 

Harjumaa 

Mari-Ann Susi, Vice Rector 

Mart Susi, Rector 

EuroFaculty of Tartu, Estonia; Riga, 

Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania 

Arild Saether, Director, Professor of 

Economics 

Foundation Saaremaa Universities 

Center, Kuressaare 

Erik Keerberg, Manager 

Ministry of Education, Tartu 

Ain Heinaru, Head, Department of 

Universities and Science 

Tallinn Technical University 

Olav Aarna, Rector 

Peep Jonas, Managing Director 

Andres Keevallik, Rector 

Rein Kuttner, Vice Rector 

Tartu University 

*Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector; Former 

Minister of Education 

Hele Everaus, Vice Rector for 

Institutional Development; Professor of 

Hematology 

Toivo Maimets, Vice Rector for 

Research and Institutional Development 

Jaan Ross, Dean, Faculty of 

Philosophy 

Peeter Tulviste, Former Rector 

FINLAND 

Abo Akademi University 

Bengt Stenlund, Rector 

Helsinki School of Economics and 

Business Administration 

Eero Kasanen, Rector 

Helsinki University 

Heikki Mäkipää, Head of Research 

and International Services 

Arto Mustajoki, Vice Rector 

National Union of Finnish Students, 

Helsinki 

Tommi Himberg, President 

University of Jyväskylä 

Aino Sallinen, Rector 

University of Kuopio 

Ossi Lindqvist, Director and Professor, 

Institute of Applied Biotechnology 

University of Turku 

Kari Hyppönen, Director of 

Administration 

Keijo Virtanen, Rector 

FRANCE 

University of Paris Sorbonne 

Maurice-Paul Gautier, Emeritus 

Professor, Department of Foreign 

Languages 

GEORGIA 

Tbilisi State University 

Thomas Gamkrelidze, Director, 

Institute of Oriental Studies; Member, 

Georgian Parliament 

Roin Metreveli, Rector 

GERMANY 

Georg-August University, Göttingen 

Marina Frost, Chancellor

Technical University of Dresden 

Dagmar Krause, Deputy Director, 

International Office Verena Leuterer, 

Department of Academic Affairs 

Achim Mehlhorn, Rector 

Hans Weismeth, Vice Rector for 

Research 

University of Konstanz 

Jürgen Mittelstrass, Director, Center 

for Philosophy of Science; Professor of 

Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 

Sybille Reichert, Independent 

Consultant in Higher Education 

University of Hamburg 

Sigrun Nickel, Head, Department of 

Communication and Organization 

Development, Hamburg School for 

Economics and Politics 

University of Kassel 

Hans Brinckmann, Former President 

Stefanie Schwarz, Research Associate, 

Center for Research on Higher 

Education and Work 

Ulrich Teichler, Executive Director, 

Center for Research on Higher 

Education and Work 

University of Kaiserslautern 

Klaus Landfried, Rector; Vice 

President, German Rectors’ Conference 

Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover 

Axel Horstmann, Deputy Director, 

Department of Social Sciences and 

Humanities 

Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General 

GREECE 

University of Athens (National and 

Kapodistrian) 

Calliope Bourdara, Professor, Faculty 

of Law 

HUNGARY 

Budapest University of Economic 

Sciences 

Tamas Meszaros, Vice Rector 

Budapest University of Technology and 

Economics 

Attila Aszódi, Head of Department, 

Nuclear Technology Institute 

Tibor Cinkler, Associate Professor, 

Department of Telecommunications and 

Telematics 

Central European University, Budapest 

Yehuda Elkana, Rector 

Istvan Teplan, Executive Vice President 

Civic Education Program, Budapest 

Jeffery Meyers, Regional Director, 

Eurasian Program 

Collegium Budapest 

Fred Girod, Secretary 

Gabor Klaniczay, Rector 

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

László Boros, Vice Rector for 


Federation of Debrecen Universities 

Sandor Nagy, President 

Gabor Denes College, Budapest 

Sarolta Zarda, Director 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 

Budapest 

Katalin Bagi, Research Fellow 

Hungarian Accreditation Committee, 

Budapest 

András Róna-Tas, President 

Janus Pannonius University, Pecs 

Károly Barakonyi, Rector 

Gabor Vígh, General Director 

Jozsef Attila University, Szeged 

Janos Csirik, Former Rector 

Erzsebet Czachesz, Former Vice Dean 

for Education and Student Affairs, 

Faculty of Arts 

László Dinya, Professor and Head, 

Marketing-Management Department 

Istvan Kenesei, Vice President for 

Research and Grants, Institute of 

English and American Studies 

Peter Paczolay, Associate Dean 

Bela Racz, Pro Rector, Department of 

Optical and Quantum Physics 

Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen 

Dezsö Beke, Deputy Rector for 

Research 

Semmelweis University, Budapest 

Ágoston Szél, Professor, Department of 

Human Morphology and Developmental 

Biology 

Szent Istvan University, Budapest 

*László Frenyó, Professor of 

Immunophysiology; Former President, 

Tamás Kozma (University 

of Debrecen, Hungary) 

speaks to colleagues at the 

February 2001 symposium. 

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Paolo Blasi (University of 

Florence, Italy) and Brigitte 

Winklehner (University of 

Salzburg, Austria) share 

views over dinner. 

“I would like to 

express our gratitude 

for the possibility to 

host a consultant 

team of the Salzburg 

Seminar’s Visiting 

Advisors Program 

at our university. 

The external 

evaluation of the 

current situation at 

our university will 

certainly assist us in 

the running process 

of changes.” 

Ivars Lacis 

University of Latvia 

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Higher Education and Research 

Council; Former President, Hungarian 

Rectors Conference 

Ágnes Sterczer, Assistant Professor, 

Department and Clinic of Internal 

Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science 

Technical University of Budapest 

Imre Bojtar, Director of Scientific and 

Research Affairs 

Gyorgy Horvai, Vice Rector 

IRELAND 

Dublin City University 

Daniel O’Hare, President Emeritus 

ITALY 

University of Bologna 

Stefano Bianchini, Director, Center for 

Central and East Europe and the Balkans 

KAZAKSTAN 

Ministy of Education, Alma-Aty 

Murat Zhurinov, Minister 

LATVIA 

Riga Technical University 

Elmars Bekeris, Vice Rector for 

Academic and Professional Studies; 

Associate Professor 

Ivars Knets, Rector; Director, Institute 

of Biomechanics and Biomaterials 

University of Latvia, Riga 

Aline Grzhibovska, Director, 

International Office 

Juris Kruminš, Vice Rector 

Ivars Lacis, Rector 

Janis Stonis, Director, Student 

Information Center 

Edvins Vanags, Head, Department for 

Public Administration 

Juris Zakis, Rector 

LITHUANIA 

Kaunas University of Technology 

Ramutis Bansevicius, Rector 

Petras Baršauskas, Vice Rector for 

Infrastructure and International Affairs 

Kestutis Krisciunas, Rector 

Klaipeda University 

Vaidutis Laurenas, Vice Rector, 

Department of Political Science 

Stasys Vaitekunas, Rector 

Vilnius University 

Rolandas Pavilionis, Rector 

Aleksas Pikturna, Vice Rector for 


Eugenijus Stumbrys, Director of Study, 

Administration Office 

Saulius Vengris, Vice Rector for 

Academic Affairs 

MACEDONIA 

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 

Skopje 

Savo Cvetanovski, Vice Rector for 

International Cooperation 

Radmila Kiprijanova, Rector 

Vlado Pavlovski, Vice Rector 

NETHERLANDS 

Free University, Amsterdam 

Jan Donner, Vice Chairman of the 

Executive Board 

Inspectorate of Education, Zwolle 

Jacob Scheele, Inspector of Higher 

Education 

University of Twente, Enschede 

Harry Brinkman, Senior Advisor, 

Center for Higher Education Policy 

Studies 

Peter Maassen, Director, Center for 

Higher Education Policy Studies 

NORWAY 

University of Bergen 

Etelka Dahl, Director of Academic 

Affairs 

POLAND 

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 

Marek Krêglewski, Vice Rector for 

International Affairs 

“Artes Liberales” Institute, Warsaw 

Robert Sucharski, Executive Director 

Jagiellonian University, Krakow 

Michal du Vall, Associate Professor of 

Law 

Wojciech Froncisz, Vice Rector for 

Development 

Krzystof Krolas, Vice Dean, Institute 

of Physics

Emil Orzechowski, Dean, Faculty of 

Management and Communication 

Tadeusz Skarbek, Administrative 

Director 

Kazimierz Sowa, Professor, Institute of 

Public Affairs, Faculty of Management 

and Social Communication 

Polish Academy of Sciences 

Henryk Ratajczak, Director, Paris 

Office, France 

Warsaw School of Economics 

Grzegorz Augustyniak, Research 

Fellow 

Zbigniew Dworzecki, Vice Rector for 

Management and Development 

Marian Geldner, Vice Rector for 

External Relations 

Janina Józwiak, Rector 

Jacek Kotlowski, Assistant, Institute 

for Econometrics 

Krzystof Piech, Economist, Economic 

Policy Department 

*Piotr Ploszajski, Head, Department of 

Management Theory; Former Director 

General, Polish Academy of Sciences 

Krzysztof Przybylowski, Adjunct 

Professor 

Warsaw University 

Jan Madey, Vice Rector 

Wlodzimierz Siwinski, Rector 

Grazyna Wieczorkowska-Nejtardt, 

Director, International Programs 

Warsaw University of Technology 

Krzysztof Kurzydlowski, Vice Rector 

for Student Affairs 

Jerzy Osiowski, Professor and 

Chairman, Main Council of Higher 

Education 

Grzegorz Pawlicki, Chairman, Senate 

Commission on Problems of the 

University’s Organization and Structure 

Jerzy Woznicki, Rector 

Wroclaw University 

Anna Dabrowska, Vice Director, 

Institute of Polish Philology 

Roman Duda, Rector 

Jacek Glinski, Assistant Professor, 

Faculty of Chemistry 

Jerzy Krakowski, Vice Rector for 

Student Affairs 

Zdzislaw Latajka, Vice Rector for 

Research and Foreign Affairs 

Andrzej Witkowski, Vice Rector for 

Teaching 

Józef Ziólkowski, Vice Rector for 

Research and International Affairs 

University of Gdansk 

Andrezej Ceynowa, Vice Rector for 

Research and International Cooperation 

University of Warmia and Mazury, 

Olstyn 

Ryszard Górecki, Rector 

ROMANIA 

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of 

Iasi 

Stefan Avadanei, Professor, 

Department of English 

Panaite Nica, Professor, Department of 

Management 

Bogdan Plescan, Administrative 

General Manager 

Gheorghe Popa, Rector 

“Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj 

Paul Agachi, Professor of Chemical 

Engineering 

Manuela Dordea, Director, Socrates 

Commission 

Zoltan Kassa, Director, Center for 

Distance Education 

Andrei Marga, Rector; Former 

Minister of Education 

Carmen Pricopi, International Officer, 

International Relations Office 

Cristian Silvestru, Vice Dean, Faculty 

of Chemistry 

Simion Simon, 

Vice Rector, 

Faculty of 

Physics 

“Lucian Blaga” 

University, Sibiu 

Dumitru 

Ciocoi-Pop, 

Rector 

Dorin 

Drâmbárean, 

Executive 

Director, Office 

for Foreign 

Academic 

Relations 

Cristina Sandru, Teaching Assistant, 

Department of British and American 

Studies, Faculty of Letters, History and 

Journalism 

Gheorghe Dorin Stoicescu, Science 

Secretary, University Senate 

Ministry of National Education, 

Bucharest 

Gabriela Atanasiu, Director of 


Targu Mures University of Medicine 

and Pharmacy 

Louis Seres-Sturm, Vice Rector 

Technical University of Iasi 

Nicolae Badea, Vice Rector 

Mihai Gafitanu, Rector 

University of Bucharest 

Ioan Cristurean, Academic Secretary 

Maria Pruna, Chief Secretary 

Corneliu Zidaroiu, Vice Rector 

Piotr Ploszajski (Warsaw 

School of Economics, 

Poland) and Peter Magrath 

(NASULGC, USA) during a 

working group meeting on 

the Schloss terrace. 

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Members of the Russian 

delegation at the January 

1999 Plenary Convocation: 

Vladimir Alexeevich Zernov 

(Association of Non-State 

Higher Educational 

Institutions), German 

Sevirovich Mironov 

(Yaroslavl State University), 

Vasily Maximilianovich 

Zhurakovsky, (Ministry of 

General and Professional 

Education), Gennady 

Alekseevich Yagodin 

(International University), 

Anatoly Sergeevich 

Vostrikov (Novosibirsk State 

Technical University), and 

Vladimir Evgenievich 

Tretyakov (Ural State 

University). 

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

Association of Non-State Higher 

Educational Institutions, Moscow 

*Vladimir Vasil’evich Gusev, 

Chairman, Association of Rectors, Black 

Earth Region; Former Rector, Voronezh 

State University 

Vladimir Alexeevich Zernov, 

Chairman, Association of Rectors, Black 

Earth Region 

Bashkir State University, Ufa 

Bayazit Sabiryanovich Galimov, First 

Vice Rector 

Nikolai Danilovich Morozkin, Vice 

Rector for Education 

Yaudat Sultanaev, Dean, Department 

of Mathematics 

Belgorod State University 

Evgeny Vladimirovich Dvoretsky, 

First Pro Rector 

Buryat State University 

Nikolai Vasilievich Bodoev, Vice 

Rector for Research 

Aldov Damdinov, Director, Bokhan 

Branch 

Stepan Vladimirovich Kalmykov, 

Rector 

Larissa Kovalyova, Vice President for 


Valentina Sevostianova Makrova, 

Chair, Department of English Philology 

Far Eastern State University, 

Vladivostok 

Valery Petrovich Dikarev, Vice 

President for International Affairs 

Evgeny Krasnov, Vice Governor, 

Primorye Province 

Boris Lvovich Reznik, Vice Rector for 

Research 

Andrei Uroda, Chief Manager, Foreign 

Affairs Office 

Herzen State Pedagogical University, 

St. Petersburg 

Gennady Bordovsky, Rector 

Sergey Shilov, Vice Rector for 

International Affairs; Associate 

Professor of Chemistry 

Institute of Administration, Business 

and Law, Rostov-on-Don 

Imran Gurry Ogly Akperov, Rector 

International Banking Institute, St. 

Petersburg 

Viktor Nikolaievich Veniaminov, 

Rector 

International Independent Ecological- 

Political University, Moscow 

Stanislav Aleksandrovich Stepanov, 

Rector 

International University, Moscow 

Oksana Stanislavovna Oleneva, Head 

of Academic Department 

Ludmila Georgievna Tretyakova, Vice 

Rector 

*Gennady Alekseevich Yagodin, Rector 

International University of Higher 

Technology, Voronezh 

Igor Yakovlevich L’vovich, Vice Rector 

for Academics 

Irkutsk State University 

Valery Nikolaevich Ryzhikov, Vice 

Rector 

Alexander Ilyich Smirnov, Rector 

Constantin Sergeevich Zhukov, Dean 

Kaliningrad State University 

Vera Zabotkina, Vice Rector for 

International Affairs; Chair, 

Department of English 

Kazan Finance and Economics 

Institute 

Nail Khairoulline, Rector 

Kazan State Technical University 

Gennady Degtyarev, Rector 

Kazan State University 

Alexander Ivanov, Vice Rector for 

Scientific Work 

Asfan Idiatovich Khaibulov, Vice 

Rector for Finance 

Evgeny Anatolievich Kniazev, Vice 

Rector; Head, International Office 

Yuri Gennadievich Konoplev, Rector 

Nail Kalimovich Zamov, Vice Rector 

for Education 

Kuban State University, Krasnodar 

Olga Viktorovna Agrova, Assistant 

Professor, Department of German 

Philology and Assistant to the Rector 

Vladimir Ivanovich Cherny, Vice 

Rector 

Victor Andreevich Derbenev, First 

Vice Rector 

Alexander Ivanov, Vice Rector for 

Scientific Work 

Kursk State University 

Vyacheslav Viktorovich Gvozdev, 

Rector

Lipetsk Pedagogical Institute 

Vera Fyodorovna Chernova, Rector 

Ministry of General and Professional 

Education, Moscow 

Irina Arzhanova, Head of Department, 

International Programmes and 

Cooperation with International 

Organizations 

Sergei Beliakov, Director, Department 

of Economics 

Victor Alexandrovich Bolotov, Deputy 

Minister 

Vladimir Georgeevich Kinelev, 

Minister 

Aleksandr Vasil’evich Prokopchuk, 

Advisor to the Minister, International 

Affairs Division 

Gennady Sarychev, Head, 

International Research Department 

Yuri Shlyonov, Director, Department of 

Financing Research and Innovations 

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sleptsov, 

Head of Department 

Alexey Vladimirovich Talonov, Deputy 

Head, International Cooperation 

Division 

*Vasiliy Maximilianovich 

Zhurakovsky, First Deputy Minister 

Moscow Academy of Economics and 

Law 

Nikolai Mikhailovich Ogarkov, Rector 

Moscow Institute of Physics and 

Technology 

Nikolai Vasilevich Karlov, Rector; 

Chairman, Supreme Certifying 

Committee of Russian Federation 

Maria Vladimirovna Kondaurova, 

1999 Russian-US Young Leadership for 

Public Service Program Fellow, 

currently at University of Wyoming 

Timofei Vladimirovich Kondranin, 

Vice Rector 

Nikolai Kudryavtsev, Rector 

Yuri Samarsky, Vice Rector 

Moscow Open Social University 

Ivan Gregorievich Bezuglov, Rector 

Moscow Physical-Technical Institute 

Nikolai Vasilevich Karlov, Rector 

Svetlana Ivanovna Trofimova, Head 

of Department of International Affairs 

Moscow State University 

Victor Fedorovich Maximov, Deputy 

Pro Rector, Academic Policy and 

Curriculum 

Mikhail Viktorovich Rychev, Deputy 

Vice Rector 

*Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichy, 

Rector 

Vladimir Ilyich Trukhin, Pro Rector, 

Academic Policy and Curriculum 

Nizhni Novgorod State University 

Aleksander Fyodorovich Khokhlov, 

Rector 

Oleg Alekseevich Kolobov, Dean, 

College of History 

Georgi Arturovich Maximov, Vice 

Rector for Scientific Work 

Roman Grigorievich Strongin, First 

Vice Rector 

North Caucasus State Technical 

University, Stavropol 

Evgeny Nikolaevich Shiyanov, Vice 

Rector for Education 

Boris Mikhailovich Sinelnikov, Rector 

Elvira Mechislavovna Sinelnikova, Vice 

Rector, International Business School 

Novgorod State University 

Vladimir Yefimovich Gantmakher, 

Vice Rector for Research 

Anatoly Gavrikov, Rector 

Nikolai Kurmishev, Vice Rector for 

New Information Technologies; 

Director, University Internet Center 

Alexander Georgievich Plotnikov, 

Deputy Director, Department of 

Education, Culture, Sports and Youth 

Politics 

Vladimir Soroka, Rector 

Evgeny Tultsev, Head, Office 

Technologies Department 

Valery Nikolaevich Zelenin, Vice 

Rector for International Affairs 

Novosibirsk Humanitarian Institute 

Evgeny Alekseevich Sokolkov, Rector 

Novosibirsk Municipal Department of 

Education 

Vladimir Viktorovich Ivanov, Deputy 

Chief 

Novosibirsk Regional 


Evgeniya 

Anatolievna 

Mouzichenko, Vice 

President, Committee 

on Regional Scientific 

Technical Politics, 

Mayor’s Office 

Novosibirsk State 

Academy of 

Architecture and Arts 

Gennady Ivanovich 

Pustovetov, Rector 

Novosibirsk State Technical University 

Yuri Andreevich Afanasiev, Vice 

Rector for Studies 

Evgeny Borisovich Tsoi, Vice Rector 

for International Relations 

Anatoly Sergeevich Vostrikov, Rector 

Novosibirsk State University 

Nikolai Sergeevich Dikansky, Rector 

Victor Radchenko, Vice Rector 

“The brilliant 

presentations from 

the Faculty all 

around the world 

and the heated 

working group 

discussions opened 

to me new vistas 

on every side of 

academic life. 

I hope to 

disseminate the 

ideas further among 

my colleagues and 

students.” 

Irina Kabanova 

Fellow, Session 379 

Saratov State University, 


Hans Adriaansens 

(University of Utrecht, 

Netherlands), Peter Rose 

(Smith College, USA), and 

Universities Director Jochen 

Fried continue their 

discussions on the Schloss 

terrace. 

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Facilitators at the April 2001 

symposium: Salzburg 

Seminar President Olin 

Robison, Jan Sadlak 

(UNESCO-CEPES, Romania), 

Ossi Lindqvist (University of 

Kuopio, Finland), Universities 

Project Russian Program 

Coordinator Helene 

Kamensky, Robin Farquhar 

(Carleton University, Canada), 

Universities Project Director 

Jochen Fried, John Davies 

(Anglia Polytechnic University, 

UK), John Burkhardt 

(University of Michigan, USA), 

Jairam Reddy (Human 

Sciences Research Council, 

South Africa), Marvin Peterson 

(University of Michigan, USA), 

Peter Magrath (NASULGC, 

USA), Dan Matuszewski (IREX, 

USA), Vasily Zhurakovsky 

(Ministry of General and 

Professional Education, 

Russian Federation), Anatoli 

Vostrikov (Novosibirsk State 

Technical University, Russian 

Federation), László Frenyó 

(Szent Istvan University, 

Hungary), Gail Stevenson 

(Champlain College, USA), 

Tony Morgan (University of 

Utah, USA), and Evgeny 

Kniazev (Kazan State 

University, Russian 

Federation). 

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Gennady Jurievich Shvedenkov, Vice 

Rector 

Aleksei Vostretsov, Head, 

Radioelectronic Means Design and 

Technology Department 

Oblasts of the Central Region of Russia 

Grigory Fedorovich Fedorov, General 

Director, Chamber of Commerce 

Perm State University 

Boris Kondakov, Dean, Philological 

Faculty 

Igor Yurievich Makharikhin, Head, 

Academic Division 

Vladimir Vladimirovich Malinin, 

Rector 

Valery Alexandrovich Sherstnyov, 

Vice Rector for Economics and Social 

Issues 

Vladmir Suslonov, Vice Rector for 

Research 

Petrozavodsk State University 

Natalia Vladimirovna Dorshakova, 

Professor, Faculty of Medicine 

Yuri Yurievich Gerasimov, Professor, 

Forest Engineering Faculty 

Nikolai Rudolphovich Toivonen, Vice 

Rector for International Relations 

Viktor Nikolaevich Vasiliev, Rector 

Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan 

Ramil Valeev, Head, Department of 

Science and Education, Council of 

Ministers of Tatarstan 

Zilya Rakhimyanovna Valeeva, 

Deputy Head, State Council 

Rostov State University 

Alexander Vladimirovich Belokon, 

Rector 

Andrei Vatalievich Korenevsky, 

Deputy Vice Rector for Academic 

Affairs 

Anatoly Ivanovich Narezhny, First 

Vice Rector 

St. Petersburg State Technological 

Institute 

Anatolij Sergeevich Dudarov, Rector 

St. Petersburg State University 

Viktor Dimitrievich Shvetsov, Vice 

Rector, Head of Administration 

Alexander Nicolaevich Soshnev, Vice 

Rector for Social and Economic 

Development 

Lyudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaya, 

Rector 

St. Petersburg State University of 

Economics and Law 

Leonid Stepanovich Tarasevich, 

Rector 

St. Petersburg State University of 

Technology and Design 

Victor Yegorovich Romanov, Rector 

Samara Humanitarian Academy 

Natalia Yurevna Voronina, Rector 

Samara State University 

Alexey Vladimirovich Nechaev, Head, 

Department of International Relations 

Gennady Petrovich Yarovoy, Rector 

Saratov State University 

Anastasija Gavrilova, Coordinator of 

International Programs 

Alexy Kuraev, Counselor in External 

Affairs, Office of the Rector 

Svetlana Petrovna Mushtakova, 

Professor 

Liudmila Mikhailovna Strakhova, 

Director, International Office 

Alexader Sytnik, Director of the Volga 

Region Center of New Technologies 

Dimitrii Ivanovich Trubetskov, Rector 

Smolensk Humanitarian University 

Nikolai Yevgenievich Mazhar, Rector 

Tambov State University 

Sergei Vladimirovich Mishchenko, 

Professor and Rector; Doctor of 

Technical Sciences 

Tatar Institute for Business Promotion, 

Kazan 

Nella Matveevna Pruss, Rector 

Tomsk State University 

Mikhail Demyanovich Babansky, 

First Vice Rector 

Georgy Vladimirovich Mayer, Rector 

Vladimir Nikolaevich Stegnii, Vice 

Rector for Science 

Aleksei Georgievich Timoshenko, Vice 

Rector for International Programs 

Ural State Technical University, 

Ekaterinburg 

Vsevelod Semyonovich Kortov, Vice 

President 

Alexandre Vladimirovich Ponomarev, 

Vice Rector 

Sergei Shanchurov, Vice Rector for 

International Relations

Ural State University, Ekaterinburg 

Larisa Mikhailovna Dorokhina, 

Deputy Head 

Alexei Constantinovich Kliuev, 

Advisor to the Rector on Administration 

and Economics 

Konstantin Lovtsky, Advisor for 


Vladimir Vasilievich Pupynin, Head, 

Central Economic Department 

Vladimir Evgenievich Tretyakov, 

Rector, Voronezh Oblast Administration 

Voronezh Pedagogical University 

Vyacheslav Vital’evich Podkolzin, 

Rector 

Voronezh State Technical University 

Yakov Yevseyevich L’vovich, Vice 

Rector for New Information Technologies 

Voronezh State University 

Valery Grigorievich Artiukhov, Dean, 

Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences 

Alexander Victorovich Miroshnikov, 

Professor of History 

Valentin Sidorovich Rakhmanin, 

Chair, Department of Political Science 

and Sociology 

Yakutsk State University 

Anatoly Nikolaevich Alexeyev, Rector 

Vladimir Petrovich Ignatiev, Vice 

Rector for Academic Affairs 

Georgy Gennadievich Petrov, 

Research Student 

Yaroslavl State University 

Vladimir Dmitrievich Kukushkin, 

Vice Rector 

German Sevirovich Mironov, Rector 

Roman Pavlovich Usatyuk, Vice Rector 

SLOVAKIA 

Association of Carpathian Region 

Universities, Kosice 

Karol Florian, President 

Comenius University, Bratislava 

Ferdinand Devinsky, Rector 

Zora Dobrikova, Registrar 

Juraj Svec, Professor and Former 

Rector 

Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra 

Jozef Balla, Vice Rector 

University of P.J. Šafárik, Košice 

Dušan Podhradský, Rector 

Oliver Rácz, Vice Rector 

SLOVENIA 

Ministry of Education and Sport, 

Ljubljana 

Slavko Gaber, Minister 

Pavel Zgaga, Vice Minister 

University of Ljubljana 

Katja Breskvar, Vice Rector for 

Undergraduate Education 

Joze Mencinger, Rector 

Marijeta Vilfan, Secretary General 

University of Maribor 

Lucka Lorber, Deputy General 

Secretary 

Ludvik Toplak, Rector 

Andrej Umek, Vice Rector 

SOUTH AFRICA 

University of South Africa, Pretoria 

Eleanor Lemmer, Professor, 

Department of Comparative Education 

and Educational Management 

SPAIN 

University of Barcelona 

Armando Palomar, Director, Special 

Projects and International Relations, 

Bosch and Gimpera Foundation 

University of Leon 

Miguel Cordero del Campillo, 

Professor of Veterinary 

Parasitology and Rector 

Emeritus 

SWEDEN 

Gotland University College, 

Visby 

Gunhild Beckman, 

President 

Stockholm University 

Jonas Engberg, Senior 

Advisor on International 

Affairs 

Uppsala University 

Lars Rydén, Director, 

Baltic University 

Programme 

SWITZERLAND 

University of Geneva 

Luc Weber, Professor, 

Department of Economics 

THAILAND 

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 

Paitoon Sinlarat, Director, Center for 

Professional Development in Higher 

Education 

UKRAINE 

Lviv State University 

Yuri Rashkevych, Vice Rector for 

Education and International Relations 

Janez Kranjc (University 

of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and 

Mark Huddleston (University 

of Delaware, USA) enjoy a 

moment of light 

conversation. 

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“This seminar led 

us to formulate a 

clearer vision 

with regard to 

globalization and 

the future of the 

universities. 

Of equal importance 

was the opportunity 

to share ideas and 

establish a network 

with colleagues from 

East and Central 

Europe, Russia, 

and the United 

States. This 

networking will 

facilitate future joint 

projects.” 

Eduardo Conrado 

Alamo Community 

College District, USA 

Ivan Olexandrovych Vakarchuk, 

Rector 

Vasyl Vysochansky, Vice Rector for 

Educational Activity 

Yury Zavhorodnyev, Head, 

Department of English Philology 

Ministry of Education, Kiev 

Mikhail Filimonovich Stepko, Head, 

Main Office of Higher Education 

National Technical University of 

Ukraine, Kiev 

Sergei Siderinko, Head, Department of 

Foreign Relations 

Yuri Yakimenko, First Vice Rector 

Odessa State Polytechnic University 

Valery Malakhov, Rector 

Odessa State University 

Valentin Smyntyna, Rector 

University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, 

Kiev 

Tetyana Bondarchuk, Dean of Students 

Viatcheslav Brioukhovetsky, Rector 

Sophia Pokhodnia, Vice President for 

Relations and Development 

Natalia Shumkova, Head, Public 

Relations and Fundraising 

UNITED KINGDOM 

Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex 

*John Davies, Dean of the Graduate 

School 

Rick Rylance, Dean, School of Arts and 

Letters; Professor of Modern English 

Literature 

Grenzebach Glier Europe, London 

Jill Pellew, Vice President and 

Managing Director 

Kingston University, Surrey 

Peter Scott, Vice Chancellor 

Queen’s University, Belfast 

Robert Cormack, Pro Vice Chancellor 

University of Cambridge 

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, Professor, 

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical 

Sciences 

University of Leicester 

Kenneth Edwards, Vice Chancellor 

University of London 

Gareth Williams, Professor, Institute of 

Education 

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 

Peter West, Secretary 

University of Wales Aberystwyth 

Maureen Woodhall, Research Fellow 

University of Warwick 

Michael Shattock, Registrar 

UNITED STATES 

Alamo Community College District, 

San Antonio, Texas 

Eduardo Conrado, Director for 


Alderson Broaddus College, Philippi, 

West Virginia 

Steve Markwood, President 

American Council on Education, 


Peter Eckel, Assistant Director, Kellogg 

Projects on Leadership and Institutional 

Development 

*Madeleine Green, Vice President 

Barbara Hill, Senior Fellow 

Jacqueline King, Director of Federal 

Policy Analysis 

Arizona State University, Tempe 

Charles Bantz, Vice Provost 

Lattie Coor, President 

Association of American Universities, 


Nils Hasselmo, President 

Association of Governing Boards of 

Universities and Colleges, Washington, 

DC 

Rick Legon, Executive Vice President 

Baylor University, Waco, Texas 

John Belew, Professor and Provost 

Emeritus 

Wallace Daniel, Dean, College of Arts 

and Sciences 

B. Michael Long, Director, Slavic and 

East European Studies 

Herbert Reynolds, Chancellor 

Benedict College, Columbia, South 

Carolina 

David Swinton, President and CEO 

Bethune-Cookman College, Dayton 

Beach, Florida 

Ann Taylor, Vice President for 


Boston College, Massachusetts 

*Philip Altbach, Director, Center for 

International Higher Education; 

Professor of Higher Education 

Boston University, Massachusetts 

John Silber, Chancellor 

Bradford College, Haverill, 

Massachusetts 

Joseph Short, President 

California State Polytechnic University, 

Pomona 

Hugh LaBounty, President Emeritus 

California State University, 

Sacramento 

Donald Gerth, President 

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California State University, Chico 

Manuel Esteban, President, California 

State University-Chico 

Champlain College, Burlington, 

Vermont 

Roger Perry, President 

Gail Stevenson, Director of 


Chronicle of Higher Education, 


Malcolm Scully, Managing Editor 

The City College of New York 

Yolanda Moses, Former President 

The City University of New York 

Louise Mirrer, Executive Vice 

Chancellor for Academic Affairs 

Claremont Graduate University, 

California 

Ann Hart, Provost and Vice President 

for Academic Affairs 

Colgate University, Hamilton, New 

York 

Neil Grabois, President 

Council for International Exchange of 

Scholars, Washington, DC 

Patti Peterson, Executive Director 

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 

Donald Loppnow, Associate Vice 

President 

EDUCOM, Washington, DC 

Carolyn Jarmon, Visiting Fellow 

Carol Twigg, Vice President, Learning 

Initiatives 

Emory and Henry College, Virginia 

Tom Morris, President 

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher 

Education, Washington, DC 

Adrianna Kezar, Director; Assistant 

Professor of Higher Education 

Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New 

Hampshire 

James Forest, Director of Strategic 

Analysis 

Gulf Coast Community College, 

Panama City, Florida 

Robert L. McSpadden, President 

Harvard University, Cambridge, 

Massachusetts 

Dorothy S. Zinberg, John F. Kennedy 

School of Government 

The William and Flora Hewlett 

Foundation 

David Gardner, President; President 

Emeritus, University of California 

System 

Indiana University, Bloomington 

Ben Eklof, Director, Institute for the 

Study of Russian Education 

Indiana University Kokomo 

Emita Hill, Chancellor 

Indiana University-Purdue University, 

Indianapolis 

Barbara Holland, Senior Scholar (on 

leave), Dean of the Faculties Office; 

Director, Office of University 

Partnerships, United States Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 


Institute of International Education, 

New York 

Tony Claudino, Senior Program 

Officer, Ron Brown Fellowship Program 

International Research and Exchanges 

Board (IREX) 

Ali Hakan Altinay, Senior Consultant, 

Istanbul, Turkey 

*Daniel C. Matuszewski, Chair, Board 

of Governors Executive Committee and 

Former President, Washington, DC 

Ithaca College, New York 

Peggy Williams, President 

Johns Hopkins University, Washington, 

DC 

S. Frederick Starr, Chair, Central 

Asian Institute, School for Advanced 

International Studies 

Kansas State University, Manhattan 

James R. Coffman, Provost 

W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle 

Creek, Michigan 

John Burkhardt, Program Director, 

Leadership and Higher Education 

Cynthia Koch, Program Officer 

Kennedy-King 

College, Chicago, 

Illinois 

JoAnn Horton, 

President 

Kent State 

University, Ohio 

Carol Cartwright, 

President 

Longwood College, 

Farmville, Virginia 

William Dorrill, 

President Emeritus, 

Department of 

History and Political Science 

Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, 

Vermont 

William Laramee, Dean of 

Institutional Advancement 

Maricopa Community Colleges, Tempe, 

Arizona 

Ron Bleed, Vice Chancellor for New 


The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 

New York 

Alice Emerson, Senior Fellow 

Arlinda Wickland 

(Middlebury College, USA), 

discusses the role of 

students in university affairs 

with colleagues from 

Central, East, and West 

Europe and North America. 

Ivars Lacis (University of 

Latvia) and Symposium Co- 

Chair Judith Ramaley 

(University of Vermont, USA) 

engage in discussion over 

coffee during the November 

2000 symposium. 

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David Warren (National 

Association of Independent 

Colleges and Universities, 

USA), speaks at the 

October 1999 symposium. 

“These universities 

represent the “cuttingedge” 

for economic 

and social reform, 

and the rectors and 

their collegues are in a 

position to bring 

about new and 

innovative approaches 

in higher education. 

I sincerely believe 

that the Salzburg 

Seminar is in the 

vanguard of making 

significant changes in 

East European 

education.” 

Edward Jakubauskas 

University of Colorado at 

Denver, USA 

24 

Michigan State University, East 

Lansing 

Kathryn Moore, Director, Center for 

Advanced Learning Systems 

Keith Williams, Executive Director, 

Alumni Association 

Middlebury College, Vermont 

Eric Davis, Secretary of the College 

and Professor of Political Science 

John McCardell, President 

Neil Waters, Professor of History and 

Director of the International Studies 

Program 

Arlinda Wickland, Director, Office of 

Student Fellowships and Scholarships 

Clara Yu, C.V. Starr Professor of 

Linguistics and Director, Project 2001 

Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia 

Walter Massey, President 

NAFSA: Association of International 

Educators, Washington, DC 

Marlene Johnson, Executive Director 

and CEO 

National Association of Independent 

Colleges and Universities, Washington, 

DC 

David Warren, President 

National Association of State 

Universities and Land-Grant Colleges 

(NASULGC), Washington, DC 

*C. Peter Magrath, President 

New England Association of Schools 

and Colleges, Inc., Bedford, 

Massachusetts 

Charles Cook, Director, Commission 

on Institutions of Higher Education 

Northern Kentucky University, 

Highland Heights 

Gerald Hunter, Associate Vice 

President and Budget Director 

Oregon State University, Corvalis 

John Byrne, President Emeritus 

Otterbein College, Ohio 

Stephen Storck, Vice President for 

Business Affairs 

Pennsylvania State University, State 

College 

Bryce Jordan, President Emeritus 

Graham Spanier, President 

The Pew Forum on Undergraduate 

Learning, Washington, DC 

Russell Edgerton, Director 

Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, 

Virginia 

Steven Lang, Associate Dean 

Roger Martin, President 

San Jose State University, California 

Peter Lee, Associate Vice President 

Angela Rickford, Associate Professor, 

College of Education 

Smith College, Northampton, 

Massachusetts 

Peter Rose, Sophia Smith Professor of 

Sociology and Anthropology 

State University of New York, Albany 

Thomas Bartlett, Former Chancellor 

John Ryan, Chancellor 

State University of New York, Buffalo 

Olga Bain, Ph.D. Candidate, 

Department of Educational Leadership 

and Policy 

*D. Bruce Johnstone, University 

Professor of Higher Education; Former 

Chancellor 

Texas A&M University System, Austin 

Stanton Calvert, Vice Chancellor for 

Governmental Relations 

Tarrant County College District, 

Fort Worth, Texas 

Leonardo de la Garza, Chancellor 

Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont 

Elizabeth Candon, Professor and 

Former President 

Janice Ryan, Former President 

Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky 

David Joyce, President 

US Embassy, Moscow, Russian 

Federation 

Rosemary DiCarlo, Cultural Affairs 

Attaché 

US Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic 

Deborah McGeehon, Cultural Affairs 

Attaché 

US Mission to Organization for 

Security and Cooperation in Europe, 

Vienna, Austria 

Sam Poole, Personal Representative of 

the Secretary of Defense, Organization 

for Security and Cooperation in Europe 

(OSCE); Former Chair, Board of 

Governors, University of North 

Carolina 

University of Arizona, Tucson 

Larry Leslie, Professor, Center for the 

Study of Higher Education 

Sheila Slaughter, Professor, Center for 

the Study of Higher Education 

University of California, Davis 

William Lacy, Vice Provost for 

Outreach and International Affairs 

University of California, Irvine 

Jack Peltason, President Emeritus 

University of California, Los Angeles 

Alexander Astin, Professor of Higher 

Education; Director, Higher Education 

Research Institute 

Helen Astin, Professor of Higher 

Education; Associate Director, Higher 

Education Research Institute

University of Charleston, West Virginia 

Edwin Welch, President; Chair, 

Appalachian College Association 

University of Colorado at Denver 

Edward Jakubauskas, Senior 

Economist, Center for International 

Business and Economic Studies; Former 

President, Central Michigan University 

University of Delaware, Newark 

Arno Loessner, Senior Policy Fellow; 

Former Vice President and University 

Secretary 

University of Kentucky, Lexington 

Elisabeth Zinser, Chancellor 

University of Maryland, College Park 

Thomas Fretz, Dean, College of 

Agriculture and Natural Resources 

Adam Yarmolinsky, Regents Professor 

of Public Policy 

University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 

Princess Anne 

Jackie Thomas, Special Assistant to the 

President 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Marcellette Williams, Deputy 

Chancellor 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

James Duderstadt, President Emeritus 

Marvin Peterson, Professor of Higher 

Education 

University of Michigan, Dearborn 

James Renick, Chancellor 

University of Michigan, Flint 

Juan Mestas, Chancellor 

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 

Ettore (Jim) Infante, Professor of 

Mathematics 

Jean Keffeler, Former Regent and 

Chair 

University of North Carolina, Chapel 

Hill 

Lowell Roberts, Research Fellow, 

Institute for Research Technology 

University of Pennsylvania, 

Philadelphia 

Robert Zemsky, Director, Institute for 

Research on Higher Education 

University of Rochester, New York 

Dennis O’Brien, President Emeritus 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City 

Paul Brinkman, Associate Vice 

President for Budget and Planning 

*Anthony W. Morgan, Professor of 

Higher Education, Department of 

Educational Leadership and Policy; 

Former Vice President 

Diana Pounder, Associate Dean, School 

of Education 

University of Vermont, Burlington 

Judith Ramaley, President 

Thomas Salmon, President Emeritus 

Deane Wang, Acting Dean, Sciences 

and Natural Resources 

Washington State University, Pullman 

Jane Fiori Lawrence, Director, Honors 

Program 

Wayne State University, Detroit, 

Michigan 

Irvin Reid, President 

Williams College, Williamstown, 

Massachusetts 

John Chandler, President Emeritus 

VIET NAM 

Viet Nam National University, Hanoi 

Dai Doan Ngo, Deputy Director, 


YUGOSLAVIA 

Advanced Academic Educational 

Network, Belgrade 

Aleksandra 

Bajazetov-Vucen, 

Lecturer in German 

Language 

Milica Djilas, 

Assistant Lecturer, 

International 

Cooperation Officer, 

Committee for 

International 

Cooperation 

Srbijanka Turajlic, 

President, Board of 

Directors 

Belgrade Center for 

Human Rights 

Vojin Dimitrijevic, Director 

Open Society Foundation, Belgrade 

Sonja Licht, President, Executive Board 

University of Montenegro 

Radovan Martinovic, Professor, 

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; 

President, Association of University 

Professors of Montenegro 

Zarko Mirkovic, Vice Rector for Arts 

University of Pristina 

Dikagjin Pupovci, Executive Director, 

Kosova Education Center 

INTERNATIONAL 

Association of European Universities 

(CRE), Geneva, Switzerland 

Mary O’Mahony, Deputy Secretary 

General 

Association of Universities of Asia and 

the Pacific, Nakhon Ratchasima, 

Thailand 

Ruben Umaly, Secretary General; 

Director, Center for International 


Deputy Director Scott 

Atherton in conversation 

with Peter Lee (San Jose 

State University, USA). 

25

Wallace Daniel (Baylor 

University, USA) and Gail 

Stevenson (Champlain 

College, USA) during the 

June 1998 symposium. 

26 

Affairs, Suranaree University of 

Technology 

Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 

*James Wimberley, Head of the 

Technical Cooperation and Assistance 

Section 

ESIB-The National Unions of Students 

in Europe, Brussels, Belgium 

Manja Klemencic, Director 

European Commission, Brussels, 

Belgium 

Constance Meldrum, Principle 

Administrator, DG for Education and 

Training 

Holger Schröder, Desk Officer, DG for 

Education and Culture 

European University Association, 

Geneva, Switzerland 

*Andris Barblan, Secretary General 

Guy Haug, Principal Advisor; Former 

Director General for Europe, Council of 

International Educational Exchange, 

Paris, France 

Lewis Purser, Program Officer 

Open Society Institute, Higher 

Education Support Program, 

Budapest, Hungary 

Rhett Bowlin, Deputy Director 

Nandini Ramanujam, Director 

Woldemar Tomusk, Program Manager 

Open Society Institute, Moscow, 


Alexander Chvorostov, Academic 

Consultant, Megaproject for 

Development of Education in Russia 

Vladimir Nikolaevich Petrov, Director, 

Regional Office Kursk 

UNESCO 

Dimitri Beridze, Head of the Section 

for Inter-University Cooperation, 

Division of Higher Education, 

Paris, France 

Klaus Hufner, President, 

German Commission, Berlin, 

Germany 

*Jan Sadlak, Director, 

European Center for Higher 

Education (CEPES), Bucharest, 

Romania 

Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, 

Chief of Unit, Bureau of 

Programme Coordination, 

Education Sector, Paris, France 

Lazar Vlasceanu, Assistant 

Director, European Center for Higher 

Education (CEPES), Bucharest, 

Romania 

Lesley Wilson, Director, European 

Center for Higher Education (CEPES), 

Bucharest, Romania 

United Nations Mission in Bosnia and 

Herzegovina, Sarajevo 

Jacques Paul Klein, Special 

Representative of the United Nations 

Secretary General 

United Nations Mission in Kosovo, 

Prishtina 

Michael Daxner, Co-Head for 

Education; Former President, 

University of Oldenburg, Germany 

The World Bank 

Stephen Benko, Director, Higher 

Education Reform Project, Budapest, 

Hungary 

Peter Darvas, Education Department, 

East and Central Europe Office, 


Frederick Golladay, Principal Human 

Resources Economist, Washington, DC, 

USA 

SALZBURG SEMINAR 

Salzburg, Austria and Middlebury, 

Vermont, USA 

Olin Robison, President; President 

Emeritus, Middlebury College, Vermont 

Universities Project (current staff) 

Scott Atherton, Deputy Director 

Jochen Fried, Director 

Marty Gecek, Coordinator, Visiting 


Anna Glass, Program Assistant 

Helene Kamensky, Russian Program 

Coordinator 

Universities Project (former staff) 

Raymond Benson, Director 

Elizabeth Bibby, Program Assistant 

Colin Guard, Program Assistant, 

Russian Program 

Bryan Wockley, Program Assistant

BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT 

From the outset of the Universities Project, an additional component of site visits was 

planned that would encourage the higher education reform process, and complement 

the discussions at symposia in Salzburg. This new initiative, called the Visiting Advisors 

Program (VAP), began in 1998 through generous funding from the W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation. The VAP sends teams of North American and West and East European 

university presidents and higher education experts, who volunteer their time and 

expertise, to conduct site visits at selected participating universities and assist them in 

the process of institutional self-assessment and change. The overall goal of the program 

is to provide practical advice and recommendations to institutions of higher education, 

which are coping with the challenges presented by administering the modern university. 

From the beginning, the decision was made to involve both advisors and host 

institutions in the VAP from among those who had participated in Universities Project 

symposia in Salzburg. In September 1998, a letter was mailed to all North American and 

West European Universities Project alumni, inviting them to volunteer to travel as a 

team member to a requesting institution in Central or East 

Europe, the Russian Federation, or the Newly Independent 

States. At the same time, a letter was sent to rectors and 

other senior-level representatives of higher education 

institutions who had participated in Universities Project 

symposia, inviting them to submit a request for a consultant 

visit. The goal was for the consultant team to spend three to 

five days at the host institution to provide advice and 

recommendations on specific institutional concerns 

identified in advance by the requesting university. The 

response from both potential advisors and host institutions 

was immediate and enthusiastic. To date, more than 100 

senior-level educational experts have confirmed their 

willingness to participate in the Visiting Advisors Program. 

Among them are current and former presidents and 

chancellors of universities and colleges, and high-level university educators and 

administrators from North America, and West and East Europe. More than thirty 

universities in Central and East Europe and the Russian Federation have indicated their 

interest in hosting a consultant team. Between December 1998 and December 2000, 

twenty-three teams, each consisting of three to five members, traveled to universities in 

Central and East Europe and the Russian Federation. 

The Visiting Advisors Program 

of the Universities Project 

is made possible by a generous grant from the 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 

VISITING 

ADVISORS 

PROGRAM 

Petras Barsauskas and Ramutis 

Bansevicius (Kaunas University 

of Technology, Lithuania), Ed 

Jakubauskas (University of 

Colorado at Denver, USA), 

Jacob Scheele (Inspectorate of 

Education, Netherlands), VAP 

Coordinator Marty Gecek, 

Arunas Lukosevicius (Kaunas 

University of Technology, 

Lithuania), and Ossi Lindqvist 

(University of Kuopio, Finland) 

during the VAP visit to Kaunas 

University of Technology, 

Lithuania, in November 2000. 

Thanks to the generosity and vision of the 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Universities Project has 

been able to add this valuable site-visit component, 

which complements Project discussions in Salzburg. 

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“The Visiting 


opens up new 

opportunities for 

meaningful change in 

higher education 

institutions in 

Central and Eastern 

Europe and Russia. 

Experts from all 

countries can freely 

debate their 

professional 

experiences.” 

Raoul Kneucker 

Federal Ministry for Education, 

Science and Culture, Austria 

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GOALS 

From the perspective of the Universities Project and its Visiting Advisors, there are 

two main purposes for a consultant team’s work: 

• to provide advice to senior-level colleagues at the host institution on academic 

and administrative changes that seem promising as ways to solve problems, 

improve operations, or achieve objectives that the host university has identified 

for consideration; and 

• to offer advice on progressive reforms that will enable the host universities to 

play a leadership role in the economic and social advancement of their 

respective nations. 

There are also two secondary purposes from the point of view of the visiting team 

members: 

• professionally, they seek to gain insights that will expand their understanding 

of higher education in a global context and provide new analytical perspectives 

on their own institutions and national systems; and 

• personally, they are provided with an opportunity to visit a part of the world of 

interest to them. 

The leaders of the host institution who choose to request a team of Visiting 

Advisors also have multiple expectations from such a visit. Such expectations include, 

but are not limited to: 

• the promotion of administrative improvement (e.g., in budgeting and revenue 

procurement, human resource management, and the development of technology 

in higher education); 

• the fostering of academic advancement (e.g., through interdisciplinary 

programming, instructional approaches, and international linkages); 

• political enhancement (e.g., internally through legitimatising developments 

promoted by institutional leaders, and externally through credibility accorded 

by governmental authorities); 

• profile raising (e.g., by scheduling press conferences and media interviews with 

Visiting Advisors); and 

• status building (e.g., through this visible linkage to the prestigious Salzburg 

Seminar). 

In order to help facilitate the host institution in attaining these goals, John Davies 

(Anglia Polytechnic University, UK) identified four elements of the VAP advisor role: 

• Mirror: reflecting back views of the organization and its phenomena 

• Revealer: identification of possible shortcomings in the institution against 

either its declared mission/strategy or international good practice, or both 

• Resource: presentation of information from other settings 

• Catalyst: inspiration to institution to consider different approaches 

TOWARD IMPROVEMENT AND CONTINUATION 

From the outset, this has been an experimental program, and adaptations and 

improvements to the organizational process were made as lessons learned were put 

into practice. For example, during initial visits: 

• the consultant team learned that it should receive more, and focused, 

preliminary information both about the host institution itself and its specific 

institutional concerns;

• the host institution should provide a detailed advance agenda with a stated 

purpose for each meeting; and 

• future consultant visits should commence with a meeting with the rector of the 

host institution to provide the framework for the visit, and conclude with a final 

session with the rector, at which the team’s preliminary report is presented. 

These and other such recommendations provided the basis for the creation of 

detailed guidelines for both the host institution and the advisors; the implementation of 

these guidelines, which were submitted to the Universities Project Advisory Committee 

members for their comment and additions, have improved the efficiency and quality of 

the more recent team visits. 

Other important lessons learned during the first year of the program included: 

• The absolute necessity to limit the scope of each visit. When indicating the 

areas of institutional concern to be addressed during a consultant visit, most 

host institutions initially requested advice on a wide range of issues, from 

academic governance to revenue procurement, and from accreditation to the 

use of technology in education. Host institutions are currently asked to specify 

a limited number of areas that they would like the team to address during the 

three to five day visit. 

• The team should include a senior education 

expert from Central or East Europe. Although 

most of the initial visits included a 

representative from West Europe, it became clear 

that the challenges faced by institutions in 

Central and East Europe and the Russian 

Federation are in many ways vastly different 

from those in western countries, and the 

presence of a team member familiar with the 

concerns of similar institutions is of great benefit 

to the host institution. Efforts are currently being 

made to accommodate this request. 

• The efficient administration of all components of 

the program is not only a rewarding task, but also an extremely labor-intensive 

exercise. The coordination of the flow of information between the host institution 

and the team members, coordination of travel arrangements, staff presence on 

most consultant teams, writing/editing team reports, and follow-up activity with 

team members and host institutions has involved a number of Universities Project 

staff members for varying amounts of time. It appears that with the current 

staffing for the VAP, eight to ten consultant visits per year are the maximum that 

can be undertaken and still maintain a high degree of efficiency and quality. 

Considerable thought has been given to ways in which the Visiting Advisors 

Program can build upon the excellent momentum established to date. Clearly, 

continuing liaisons between the host universities and the team members who have 

traveled there is a high priority, and one that staff will continue to encourage. It has 

been suggested that important continuity in the program would be achieved by sending 

some or all team members from a team on a return visit to the university to assess the 

progress towards implementation of recommendations made. The first of such follow-up 

visits took place in May 2001, with the same team members, to a university that was 

first visited in 1999. Another possibility would be to capitalize upon the knowledge 

gained of a particular country’s system of higher education by sending the same team 

members to another host institution in the same country. As a work in progress, 

continuing efforts are being made to ascertain ways in which the original goals can be 

achieved and expanded. 

VAP visit to New Bulgarian 

University (NBU), Sofia, 

Bulgaria, November 1999: 

Robin Farquhar (Carleton 

University, Canada), Dennis 

O’Brien (University of 

Rochester, USA), Ivanka 

Apostolova (Rector, NBU), 

Toma Tomov (Member of 

the NBU Board of Trustees), 

Leonardo de la Garza 

(Tarrant County College 

District, USA), Hans 

Brinckmann (University of 

Kassel, Germany), and 

Bogdan Bogdanovic 

(Chairman, NBU Board of 

Trustees). 

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The VAP team and BUTE 

leadership team members. 

“Now, I, too, can 

fully testify that the 

Visiting Advisors 

Program is an 

essential component 

of the Universities 

Project and I place 

great trust in the 

advisors’ mission and 

role, performed by 

sharing their 

expertise with 

many academic 

communities 

interested in higher 

education reform 

and social 

accountability.” 

Dumitru Ciocoi-Pop 

“Lucian Blaga” University, 

Romania 

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The extremely positive feedback received from virtually all host institutions has 

been gratifying. Indications show that the visits are extremely productive and highly 

appreciated by the host university for their practical 

suggestions and recommendations for institutional selfassessment 

and change. While the longer-term effects 

of the visits remain to be seen, it is clear that 

substantive discussions on specific issues of university 

management, governance, finance and budgeting, 

technology, student affairs, and relations with the 

larger society are taking place in all cases. A less 

tangible but equally valuable benefit is also emerging 

from the visits: visiting team members from the USA, 

Canada, and Europe are indicating that they, and by 

extension, their institutions, are gaining great benefit 

and insight through their contact with their colleagues 

from the East. It is clear that the VAP promotes 

learning in both directions. 

The Visiting Advisors Program has proven to be an extremely valuable additional 

component to the Universities Project, complementing and extending the work begun in 

Salzburg during the symposia. Host institutions greatly appreciate the opportunity to 

address their institutional concerns through the eyes of their peers in a joint effort 

designed to benefit both the host institution and the team members. The resulting mutual 

learning experience is one of the fine rewards of the Visiting Advisors Program. 

CASE STUDY: VAP TRIP TO THE BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY 

OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS (BUTE) 

In early April 2000, a team of senior university administrators and higher education 

experts from the US, Poland, and Austria visited BUTE for five days of conversation 

and consultation. During their visit, the team worked closely with senior-level 

administrators of BUTE on the following issues (identified in advance by the BUTE 

vice rector and his colleagues): 

• university administration and finance, including renewal of infrastructure 

• academic structure and governance 

• university strategic plan 

• tuition fees policy 

• development of information technology resources 

• human resources policy 

• the role of students in institutional affairs 

Vice Rector Professor George Horvai made these comments on some of the lasting 

effects of the VAP visit to BUTE: 

“During the past three years of my vice rectorship, we have had several consulting 

and advisory visits here, mostly concluding in advice on how we could further cut our 

spending. The VAP team was among the few to show possible ways and means of 

potentially increasing our income. 

In contrast to the rigid academic structures of the traditional European universities, 

and the almost frozen state of the Eastern Bloc due to decades of bureaucracy, the free 

atmosphere and initiation of a mobile, managerial spirit from the team members have 

been very encouraging.

Moreover, our meetings in Salzburg at various events of the Universities Project 

have helped to reestablish loosened contacts with colleagues from Russia, from other 

countries of the former Soviet Union, and even with university leaders from our closest 

neighbors, such as Slovakia and Romania.” 

VAP Team Leader Thomas Bartlett, chairman of the United States–Japan Foundation 

and former chancellor of the State University of New York System, shared his 

thoughts on the experience: 

“I can think of no 

experience in higher 

education that hour for hour 

teaches one more about 

contemporary universities 

than being part of a Visiting 

Advisors team outside one’s 

home region. For the team, 

the visit to BUTE was a 

fascinating challenge, in part 

because it made all of us 

think fundamentally about 

what is happening in many 

universities regardless of 

national borders or region. I 

believe we all felt that we 

were serving a purpose 

beyond our parochial 

concerns, higher learning 

itself.” 

Below are several of the recommendations included in the Visiting Advisors’ final 

report to the Rector of BUTE that have been implemented successfully, as 

described by Vice Rector Horvai: 

Strategic Planning: The process that had only begun when the team was in 

Budapest has been vigorously continued, with committees at work on the 

technical details. 

Leadership: A small “innovation fund” to support and provide incentives for good 

ideas wherever they emerge on campus has been realized, and the first awards 

have been received by winners of an internal competition. 

Financial Planning: The Council of Deans has prepared the 2001 budget according 

to ideas set forth by the VAP team. 

External Affairs: The University hired an experienced senior advisor for 

international affairs who is actively coordinating the hitherto dispersed 

activities in this field. 

Relations to the Private Sector: Meetings have been organized to bring together 

potential Hungarian and international sponsors with university professors active 

in the same field. 

BUTE Vice Rector George 

Horvai, Rector Ákos 

Detreköi, and Office for 

International Affairs 

Coordinator Andras Tokai 

meet with VAP team 

members Piotr Ploszajski 

(Warsaw School of 

Economics, Poland), Emita 

Hill (Indiana University 

Kokomo, USA), Tom Bartlett 

(State University of New 

York, USA), Clara Yu 

(Middlebury College, 

Vermont, USA), and 


Jochen Fried. 

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VAP LIST OF 

CONSULTANT 

VISITS 

The VAP visit to the 

“Lucian Blaga” University, 

Romania, June 2000: Juan 

Mestas (University of 

Michigan, Flint, USA), Peter 

Lee, (San Jose State 

University, USA), Dorin 

Drâmbárean (“Lucian Blaga” 

University, Romania), Tony 

Morgan (University of Utah, 

USA), and Universities 

Project Director Jochen 

Fried. 

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(in reverse chronological order) 

CENTRAL AND 

EAST EUROPE 

• Olsztyn, Poland: Warmia and Mazury 

University 

November 12–16, 2001 

Team Members 

Kari Hyppönen, Director of 

Administration, University of Turku, 

Finland 

Judith Ramaley (Team Leader), 

President, University of Vermont, 

Burlington, USA 

Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO- 

CEPES, Bucharest, Romania 

Jochen Fried, Director, Universities 

Project, Salzburg Seminar 

Focus: Allocation of budget resources; 

revenue planning and management; 

university autonomy; tuition fees; use 

of technology in educational 

administration. 

• Kiev, Ukraine: National Technical 

University of Ukraine 

September 17–22, 2001 

Team Members 

William Baker (Team Leader), Vice 

President Emeritus, University of 

California System, USA 

Daniel O’Hare, President Emeritus, 

Dublin City University, Ireland 

Piotr Ploszajski, Head, Department of 

Management, Warsaw School of 

Economics, Poland; Former Director 



Advisors Program, Salzburg Seminar 

Focus: University administration and 

finance; academic structure and 

governance; introduction of 

interdisciplinary courses, and academic 

credit transfer. 

• Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian 

University 

June 11–15, 2001 

Team Members 

Thomas Bartlett (Team Leader) 

Former Chancellor, State University of 

New York, Albany, USA 

William Simpson, Chief Librarian, 

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 

Pamela Wonsek, Deputy Librarian, 

Hunter College, City University of 

New York, USA 



Focus: Administrative and financial 

matters related to new University 

library, academic structure and 

governance issues within University. 

• Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk 

University 

May 20–23, 2001 

Team Members 

Andris Barblan, Secretary General, 

Association of European Universities, 


Neil Grabois, Vice President and 

Director of Strategic Planning and 

Coordination, Carnegie Corporation of 

New York; President Emeritus, 

Colgate University, Hamilton, New 

York, USA 

C. Peter Magrath (Team Leader), 

President, National Association of 

State University and Land-Grant 

Colleges, Washington, DC, USA 



Focus: International ties and 

development of internationally 

recognized accreditation; 

fundraising/financing project for new 

medical campus—development of a 

private/public partnership; integration of 

university studies and the credit system. 

• Riga, Latvia: University of Latvia 

April 23–27, 2001 

Team Members 

Janina Józwiak, Former Rector, 

Warsaw School of Economics, Poland 

Achim Mehlhorn, Rector, Technical 

University of Dresden, Germany 

John Ryan (Team Leader), Former 

Chancellor, State University of New 

York, Albany, USA 



Focus: Budgeting and accounting 

systems and allocation of budget

esources; general management issues; 

university autonomy and academic 

freedom issues; tuition fees; use of 

technology to improve administration 

and general services; development of 

relations with other institutions of civil 

society. 

• Rijeka, Croatia: University of Rijeka 

March 19–23, 2001 

Team Members 

Emita Hill, Chancellor Emeritus, 

Indiana University Kokomo, USA 

Bryce Jordan, President Emeritus, 

Pennsylvania State University, State 

College, USA 

Leopold März (Team Leader) Rector, 

University of Agricultural Sciences, 




Focus: Institutional structure (identity 

and mission, and budget allocation); 

academic structure (course and program 

offerings); curriculum development; 

introduction of tuition fees. 

• Kaunas, Lithuania: Kaunas University 

of Technology 

November 13–17, 2000 

Team Members 



Business and Economic Studies, 

University of Colorado at Denver; 

President Emeritus, Central Michigan 

University, USA 

Ossi Lindqvist (Team Leader), 

Director and Former Rector, Institute 

of Applied Biotechnology, University 

of Kuopio, Finland 

Jacob Scheele, Inspectorate of 

Education, Zwolle, Netherlands 


Advisors Program, Universities Project 

Focus: Revenue planning and 

management; university autonomy and 

academic freedom issues; introduction 

of interdisciplinary courses; student 

evaluation of faculty members; use of 

technology to improve administration; 

impact of technology on the curriculum. 

• Klaipeda, Lithuania: Klaipeda 

University 

October 16–20, 2000 

Team Members 

Dumitru Ciocoi-Pop, Rector, “Lucian 

Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania 

Leonardo de la Garza (Team 

Leader), Chancellor, Tarrant County 

College District, Fort Worth, Texas, 

USA 

Barbara Hill, Senior Fellow, Center 

for Leadership Development, 


Washington DC, USA 



Focus: General organizational issues of 

university administration and finance; 

central authority of the rector; student 

evaluations of faculty members, impact 

of technology to improve 

administration and general services. 

• Sibiu, Romania: “Lucian Blaga” 

University of Sibiu 

June 5–10, 2000 

Team Members 

Peter Lee, Associate Vice President, 

San Jose State University, California, 

USA 

Juan Mestas, Chancellor, University 

of Michigan, Flint, USA 

Anthony Morgan (Team Leader), 


and Policy, University of Utah, Salt 

Lake City, USA 



Focus: Academic structure and 

governance within the institution; 

university administration and finance; 

students’ needs and role of students in 

institutional affairs; technology in 

higher education, life-long learning and 

distance education; role of the 

university in the emerging civil society. 

• Zagreb, Croatia: University of Zagreb 

May 1–5, 2000 

Team Members 

László Frenyó, Professor of 

Immunophysiology, Szent-Istvan 

University, Budapest, Hungary; 

Former President, Higher Education 


Program Assistant Anna 

Glass, Emita Hill (Indiana 

University Kokomo, USA), 

Leopold März (University of 

Agricultural Sciences, 

Austria), Universities Project 

Director Jochen Fried, and 

Darko Stefan (University of 

Rijeka, Croatia). 

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Jochen Fried and David 

Swinton (Benedict College, 

USA) converse over lunch. 

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and Research Council; Former 

President, Hungarian Rectors 

Conference 

Madeleine Green, Vice President, 



Josef Jarab (Team Leader), Former 

Rector, Palacky University, Olomouc, 

Czech Republic; Former 

Rector, Central European 

University, Budapest, 

Hungary 

Hans Wiesmeth, Vice 

Rector for Research, 

Technical University of 

Dresden, Germany 

Focus: Financial policies 

including budgeting and 

funding; personnel policy and 

selection and appointment of 

academic staff; organizational 

profile of university; balance 

between teaching and research. 

• Budapest, Hungary: Budapest 

University of Technology and 

Economics 

April 4–8, 2000 

Team Members 

Thomas Bartlett (Team Leader), 

Former Chancellor, State University of 

New York, Albany, USA 

Emita Hill, Chancellor Emeritus, 

Indiana University Kokomo, USA 

Piotr Ploszajski , Head, Department of 

Management, Warsaw School of 

Economics, Poland; Former Director 


Clara Yu , C.V. Starr Professor of 

Linguistics, and Director, Project 2001, 

Middlebury College, Vermont, USA 




finance including renewal of 

infrastructure; academic structure and 

governance; university strategic plan; 

tuition fees policy; development of 

information technology resources; 

human resources policy; role of 

students in institutional affairs. 

• Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian 

University 

November 14–18, 1999 

Team Members 

Hans Brinckmann, Former President, 

University of Kassel, Germany 

Robin Farquhar, Professor and 

Former President, Carleton University, 

Ottawa, Canada 

Leonardo de la Garza, Chancellor, 

Tarrant County College District, Fort 

Worth, Texas, USA 

Dennis O’Brien (Team Leader), 

President Emeritus, University of 

Rochester, New York, USA 



Focus: Systems of academic credit; 

introduction of interdisciplinary courses; 

tuition fees; use of technology to 

improve administration; impact of 

technology on the curriculum. 

• Liberec, Czech Republic: Technical 

University of Liberec 

October 31–November 4, 1999 

Team Members 

John Belew (Team Leader), Professor 

and Provost Emeritus, Baylor University, 

Waco, Texas, USA 

Carolyn Jarmon, Assistant Vice 

President for Academic Affairs, Empire 

State College, New York, USA 

Roger Martin, President, Randolph- 

Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 

USA 

Hans Weismeth, Vice Rector for 

Research, Technical University of 

Dresden, Germany 



Focus: Budgeting and accounting 

systems and allocation of budget 

resources; revenue; strategic planning 

and management; university autonomy 

and academic freedom; academic credit 

systems; use of technology in 

administration and impact on the 

curriculum. 

• Iasi, Romania: Alexandru Ioan Cuza 

University 

October 19–22, 1999 

Team Members 



University, Budapest, Hungary; Former 

President, Higher Education and 

Research Council; Former President, 


Guy Haug, Former Vice President and 

Director General for Europe, Council on 

International Educational Exchange, 

Paris, France 

Edward Jakubauskas (Team Leader), 

Senior Economist, Center for 

International Business and Economic 

Studies, University of Colorado at 

Denver; President Emeritus, Central 

Michigan University, USA

Marcellette Williams, Deputy 

Chancellor, University of 

Massachusetts at Amherst, USA 



Josef Jarab (Team Leader), Former 

Rector, Palacky University, Olomouc, 

Czech Republic; Former Rector, 

Central European University, 


Focus: Quality assurance and the 

university’s strategic objective; 

postgraduate studies and scientific 

research; extra-budgetary financing; 

internal and international co-operation; 

organization of the university board; 

curriculum development and student 

needs. 

• Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk 

University 

May 24–28, 1999 

Team Members 




Neil Grabois, President, Colgate 

University, Hamilton, New York, USA 







Focus: International ties and 

development of internationally 

recognized accreditation; 

fundraising/financing project for new 

medical campus—development of a 

private/public partnership; integration of 

university studies and the credit system. 

• Wroclaw, Poland: University of 

Wroclaw 

April 6–10, 1999 

Team Members 



Business and Economic Studies, 

University of Colorado at Denver; 

President Emeritus, Central Michigan 

University, USA 

Jan Sadlak (Team Leader), Director, 

UNESCO-CEPES, Bucharest, Romania 




finance, including allocation of budget 

resources and revenue planning; the 

university’s strategic plan, including 

curriculum development and 

development of program of 

international studies; relations between 

university and students/academic 

community/mass media/private firms; 

administrative organization. 

• Osijek, Croatia, J.J. Strossmayer 

University of Osijek 

January 27–31, 1999 

Team Members 

Joseph Short (Team Leader), 

Chairman of the Board, Association of 

Independent Colleges and Universities 

in Massachusetts; President Emeritus, 

Bradford College, Haverill, 

Massachusetts, USA 



Larry Keyes, Director of Information 

Technology, Salzburg Seminar 

Focus: Student needs and the role of 

students in institutional affairs, 

including international student 

exchange; curricular and educational 

responses to changing societal needs 

and employment markets for 

graduates; technology in higher 

education, including application in 

education, research, management, 

administration, and through Internet. 

• Tallinn, Estonia: Needs Assessment 

and Case Study for Democratic Fiscal 

Decentralization Project 

in Estonia 

January 18–22, 1999 

Team Members 

Kari Hyppönen, 

Director of 

Administration, 

University of Turku, 

Finland 

Arno Loessner (Team 

Leader), Senior Policy 

Fellow, School of 

Urban Affairs and 

Public Policy, University of Delaware, 

Newark, USA 

Jeffrey Raffel, Director, School of 

Urban Affairs and Public Policy, 

University of Delaware, Newark, USA 

Focus: Conduct a needs assessment 

for a university outreach program to 

contribute to the democratization of 

Estonia. University outreach includes 

activities that extend programs of 

university teaching and research in 

ways that educate and inform society 

more broadly, such as training of local 

government practitioners, holding 

public policy workshops, and 

conducting applied research. 

Heikki Mäkipää (Helsinki 

University, Finland) and 

Barbara Holland (Indiana 

University–Purdue 

University Indianapolis, 

USA) converse over dinner. 

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“The project so far 

has done excellent 

work in terms of 

assisting our 

Russian colleagues 

not only to rethink 

some fundamental 

issues in their higher 

education system, but 

has also contributed 

very helpfully in 

terms of actual 

operational reform on 

the ground. …the 

meetings have 

reinforced the unique 

properties of the 

Seminar in bringing 

together people from 

various cultures and 

systems to explore 

common issues.” 

John Davies 

Anglia Polytechnic 

University, UK 

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• Warsaw, Poland: Warsaw School of 

Economics 

January 4–8, 1999 

Team Members 

Charles Bantz, Vice Provost, Arizona 

State University, Tempe, USA 

William Dorrill (Team Leader), 

President Emeritus, Longwood 

College, Farmville, Virginia, USA 

Sandra Petronio, Director of Program 

in Communications, Arizona State 

University, Tempe, USA 

Focus: Maintenance of competitive 

edge in the 21st century; utilization of 

academic staff; improvement of 

student satisfaction; expansion and 

utilization of internal assessment; 

creation of data for use in generating 

and allocating financial resources. 

• Minsk, Belarus: International Institute 

of Labour and Social Sciences 

December 14–18, 1998 

Team Members 

Larry Leslie (Team Leader), Vice 

Dean for Academic Affairs, University 

of Arizona, Tucson, USA 

Helmut Schramke, Project Manager, 

Reorganization Center, University of 


Sheila Slaughter, Professor, Center 

for the Study of Higher Education, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, USA 

Elizabeth Bibby, Program Assistant, 

Universities Project, Salzburg Seminar 

Focus: Administration and finance; 

academic structure; student needs and 

the changing role of students in 

institutional affairs; use of information 

technology in university curricula and 

in administration. 

RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

• Ural State Technical University, 

Ekaterinburg 

September 30–October 5, 2001 

Team Members 



University, Budapest, Hungary; Former 

President, Higher Education and 

Research Council; Former President, 






Jairam Reddy, Former Vice 

Chancellor, University of Durban- 

Westville, South Africa 

Anna Glass, Program Assistant, 

Universities Project, Salzburg Seminar 

Focus yet to be developed. 

• Far Eastern State University, 

Vladivostok 


Team Members 

Andris Barblan (Team Leader), 

Secretary General, Association of 

European Universities, Geneva, 

Switzerland 



Mark Huddelston, Associate Provost, 

University of Delaware, USA 

Istvan Teplán, Executive Vice 

President, Central European University, 


Helene Kamensky, Coordinator, 

Russian Program, Universities Project, 

Salzburg Seminar 


• Yakutsk State University 

August 10–17, 2001 

Team Members 

Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector, Tartu 

University, Estonia 

Anthony Morgan, Department of 

Educational Leadership and Policy, 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 

K. George Pedersen (Team Leader), 

Chancellor, University of Northern 

British Columbia, Prince George, 

Canada 





• Bashkir State University, Ufa 

June 18–23, 2001 

Team Members 

Olga Bain, State University of New 

York at Buffalo 

Guy Haug, Principal Advisor, 

European Association of Universities, 

Geneva/Brussels/Paris 

Barbara Hill, Senior Fellow, Center 

for Leadership Development, American 

Council on Education, Washington, 

DC, USA 

Bruce Johnstone (Team Leader), 

Professor of Higher and Comparative 

Education, State University of New 

York at Buffalo, USA 



Salzburg Seminar

Focus: Fundraising strategies; use of 

information technology in higher 

education; university administration 

and finance; academic structure and 

governance. 

• Buryat State University 

June 10–17, 2001 

Team Members 

John Davies (Team Leader), Dean of 

the Graduate School, Anglia 

Polytechnic University, Essex, UK 




Ossi Lindqvist, Director and Former 

Rector, Institute of Applied Biotechnology, 

University of Kuopio, Finland 





finance; resource diversification; 

academic structure and governance; 

role of students in institutional affairs. 

• Moscow Institute of Physics and 

Technology 

November 26–December 1, 2000 

Team Members 




John Burkhardt, Director, Kellogg 

Forum, University of Michigan, Ann 

Arbor, Michigan, USA 

Graham Spanier (Team Leader), 

President, Pennsylvania State 

University, State College, USA 




Focus: Vision, mission and role of 

MIPT; resource development 

strategies, organizational opportunities 

for strenthening institutional outcomes. 

• Perm State University 

October 2–7, 2000 

Team Members 



Roger Perry (Team Leader), 

President, Champlain College, 

Burlington, Vermont, USA 

Istvan Teplán, Executive Vice 

President, Central European 

University, Budapest, Hungary 




Focus: University autonomy and 

academic freedom; central authority of 

the rector; development of governing 

boards; role of the university in the 

emerging civil society; role of students 

in institutional affairs. 

• Novosibirsk State University 


Team Members 

Jairam Reddy (Team Leader), Former 

Vice Chancellor, University of 

Durban-Westville, South Africa 

Lothar Zechlin, Rector, Karl- 

Franzens-University Graz, Austria 




Focus: Revenue planning and allocation 

of budget resources; development of 

governing and advisory boards; role of 

the marketplace in teaching and 

research priorities; tuition fees and 

related issues; student evaluations of 

faculty members. 

• Tomsk State University 

July 9–14, 2000 

Team Members 


President for Budget and Planning, 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 

USA 

Roman Duda, Former Rector, 

University of Wroclaw, Poland 

Robin Farquhar (Team Leader), 

Professor and Former President, 

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 




Focus: University managerial systems; 

development of governing and advisory 

boards; sharing of authority in 

university governance; financial and 

budgetary affairs; correlation of 

financial managerial systems. 

• Novgorod State University 

May 19–25, 2000 

Team Members 

Roman Duda, Former Rector, 

University of Wroclaw, Poland 





Janice Ryan, Former President, 

Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont, 

USA 

Sergey Shilov and Gennady 

Bordovsky (Herzen State 

Pedagogical University, 

Russian Federation) visit in 

the Schloss garden. 

“The Visiting 


is unique; there 

is nothing 

comparable. 

I am a true 

supporter of the 

[Program], 

because there is 

still a great need 

in our higher 

education for the 

Visiting Advisors 

Program.” 

Vasiliy Zhurakovsky 

Ministry of General and 

Professional Education, 


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“The [Visiting 

Advisors Project] 

report has been 

recognized as the 

best among many 

others, and will be 

published and sent 

to all Russian 

institutions of higher 

education as a 

model for annual 

reports on 

educational quality.” 

Anatoly Vostrikov 

Novosibirsk State Technical 

University, Russian Federation 

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David Warren, President, National 

Association of Independent Colleges 

and Universities, Washington, DC, 

USA 




Focus: Organization of university 

administration; financial and budget 

planning; fundraising strategies; use of 

informational technology in higher 

education. 

• Novosibirsk State Technical University 

October 24–30, 1999 

Team Members 

Jaak Aaviksoo (Team Leader), 

Rector, Tartu University, Estonia 

Harry Brinkman, Senior Advisor, 

Center for Higher Education Policy 

Studies, University of Twente, 

Enschede, Netherlands 

Joseph Short, Chairman of the Board, 

Association of Independent Colleges 

and Universities in Massachusetts; 

President Emeritus, Bradford College, 

Haverill, Massachusetts, USA 


Universities Project Russian Program, 


Focus: Leadership and management; 

strategic planning; developing sources 

of funding; the market’s effect on new 

curricula and research priorities; 

developing a credit system allowing 

student mobility; information 

technology and the curriculum; the 

university’s role in local and regional 

affairs. 

• Ural State University, Ekaterinburg 

June 13–18, 1999 

Team Members 

John Davies (Team Leader), Dean of 

the Graduate School, Anglia 

Polytechnic University, Essex, UK 

K. George Pedersen, Chancellor, 

University of Northern British 

Columbia, Prince George, Canada 




Focus: The University’s strategic plan; 

the present financial situation; the 

university’s role in local and regional 

affairs; the university’s new 

relationships with neighboring HEIs; 

the budgetary process and developing 

new sources of income; information 

technologies in the educational 

process; the university’s changed role 

in relating to students. 

• Kazan State University 

June 6–12, 1999 

Team Members 


President for Budget and Planning, 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 

USA 

Marlene Johnson, Executive Director 

& CEO, NAFSA: Association of 

International Educators, Washington, 

DC, USA 

Anthony Morgan (Team Leader), 


and Policy, University of Utah, Salt 

Lake City, USA 

Karel Tavernier, General 

Administrator, Catholic University of 

Leuven, Belgium 




Focus: Leadership and management in 

all aspects of the university; planning, 

both strategic and short-term; 

personnel policies; budgeting and 

accounting systems; the university’s 

role in local and regional affairs; the 

management of entrepreneurial units. 

• Petrozavodsk State University 

April 14–22, 1999 

Team Members 

Ronald Bleed, Vice Chancellor for 

New Information Technologies, 

Maricopa Community Colleges, 

Tempe, Arizona, USA 




Robert McSpadden, President, Gulf 

Coast Community College, Panama 

City, Florida, USA 

John Ryan, (Team Leaders) 

Chancellor, State University of New 

York, Albany, USA 




Focus: Strategy for planning to acquire 

funds from new sources and managing 

them; the role of the market in setting 

curricula, teaching, and research 

priorities; the credit system and student 

evaluation; tuition fees; the 

University’s role in local and regional 

affairs and in international 

organizations and consortia.

OFFICERS 

Roy M. Huffington, Chairman 

Chairman, Roy M. Huffington, Inc.; and Former 

Ambassador of the United States to Austria; 

Houston, Texas 

Michael Palliser, Vice Chairman 

Vice Chairman (retired), Samuel Montagu & 

Co., Ltd.; London 

Herbert P. Gleason, Secretary 

Counsel, Choate, Hall & Stewart; Boston, 

Massachusetts 

Dennis O’Brien, Treasurer 

President Emeritus, University of Rochester; 

Middlebury, Vermont 

Olin Robison, President 

President Emeritus, Middlebury College; 


LIFE MEMBERS 

Lloyd N. Cutler, Chairman of the Board, 

Salzburg Seminar, 1984–1994; and Senior 

Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; 


Herbert P. Gleason, Counsel, Choate, Hall & 

Stewart; Boston, Massachusetts 

Clemens Heller, Co-Founder, Salzburg Seminar; 

and Former Director, Maison des Sciences de 

L’Homme; Lausanne 

Antonie T. Knoppers, Chairman of the Board, 

Salzburg Seminar, 1975–1984; New York, New 

York 

DIRECTORS 

Thomas D. Barr, Cravath, Swaine & Moore; 

Paradise Valley, Arizona 

Ernest A. Bates, Chairman and Chief Executive 

Officer, American Shared Hospital Services; San 

Francisco, California 

Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, 

INVESTOR AB; Stockholm 

John W. Cook, President, The Henry Luce 

Foundation, Inc.; New York, New York 

W. Peter Cooke, Advisor, World Regulatory 

Advisory Practice, Pricewater-houseCoopers, 

LLP; London 

Patricia Derian, Former Assistant Secretary of 

State for Human Rights; Miami, Florida 

Alice Emerson, Senior Advisor, Andrew W. 

Mellon Foundation; Arlington, Massachusetts 

John C. Fontaine, Partner, Hughes Hubbard & 

Reed LLP; New York, New York 

Bathsheba A. Freedman, Counselor; Author; 

Cambridge, Massachusetts 

James O. Freedman, President, American 

Academy of Arts and Sciences; and President 

Emeritus, Dartmouth College; Cambridge, 

Massachusetts 

Daniel R. Fung, Senior Counsel, Hong Kong 

Bar; Hong Kong 

Anne V. Ginevan, Former Vermont State 

Representative; Middlebury, Vermont 

David W. Ginevan, Executive Vice President of 

Facilities Planning, Middlebury College; 


Nancy Gleason, Senior Social Worker, Stone 

Center Counseling Service, Wellesley College; 

Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Wilhelmine Goldmann, Director of 

Privatization, Österreichische Industrieholding 

AG; Vienna 

Toyoo Gyohten, President, Institute for 

International Monetary Affairs; and Senior 

Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd; 

Tokyo 

Heather Sturt Haaga, Artist; and Former 

President, Marketing Management, Inc.; La 

Canada, California 

Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice President 

and Director, Capital Research and Management 

Company; La Canada, California 

Kathryn Hall (ex-officio), Ambassador of the 

United States to Austria; Vienna 

James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker 

Professor of American Studies and History, 

Department of American Studies, George 

Washington University; Washington, DC 

Shirley M. Hufstedler, Senior of Counsel, 

Morrison & Foerster; and Former United States 

Secretary of Education; Los Angeles, California 

Raoul F. Kneucker, Director General, Scientific 

Research and International Affairs, Austrian 

Federal Ministry of Education, Science and 

Culture; Vienna 

Lee Hong-koo, Former Ambassador of the 

Republic of Korea to the United States; and 

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea; 

Seoul 

SALZBURG 

SEMINAR 

BOARD OF 

DIRECTORS 

2001 

The Salzburg Seminar 

library in Schloss 

Leopoldskron. 

39

The Marble Hall, the main 

dining area, in Schloss 

Leopoldskron. 

40 

Klaus Liebscher, Governor, Österreichische 

Nationalbank; Vienna 

Otto C. C. Lin, Vice President for Research and 

Development, Hong Kong University of Science 

and Technology; Kowloon, Hong Kong 

Shirley A. Massey, First Lady, Morehouse 

College; Atlanta, Georgia 

Walter E. Massey, President, Morehouse 

College; Atlanta, Georgia 

Khotso Mokhele, President and Chief Executive 

Officer, National Research Foundation; Pretoria 

Peter Moser (ex officio), 

Ambassador of Austria to 

the United States; 


Guna S. Mundheim, 

Assistant Dean, College of 

Arts and Sciences, 

University of Pennsylvania; 

New York, New York 

Robert H. Mundheim, Of 

Counsel, Shearman & 

Sterling; New York, New 

York 

Raymond D. Nasher, 

President, Raymond D. 

Nasher Company; Dallas, 

Texas 

Eva Nowotny, Director 

General for European 

Integration and Economic 

Affairs, Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs; Vienna 

Bernard Ostry, Owner, 

ImagiNations Unlimited, 

Inc.; Toronto 

Sylvia Ostry, 

Distinguished Research 

Fellow, Centre for 

International Studies, 

University of Toronto; Toronto 

Hisashi Owada, President and Director, Japan 

Institute of International Affairs; Tokyo 

Eng Fong Pang, Ambassador of the Republic of 

Singapore to the Court of St. James’s; London 

Usha Prashar, First Civil Service 

Commissioner; and Member, House of Lords; 

London 

Irmtraud Richardson, Commentator and 

Feature Writer, German Public Radio; 


John B. Richardson, Deputy Head of 

Delegation, Delegation of the European 

Commission in Washington, European Union; 


Vijay Sharma, Principal of Vijay Sharma 

Solicitors; London 

Isabel Carter Stewart, Executive Director, The 

Chicago Foundation for Women; Chicago, 

Illinois 

Donald M. Stewart, President and Chief 

Executive Officer, The Chicago Community 

Trust; Chicago, Illinois 

Randal C. Teague, Partner, Vorys, Sater, 

Seymour and Pease LLP; Washington, DC 

Jan Urban, Former Publisher, Transitions 

Magazine, Institute for Journalism in Transition; 

Prague 

Melvyn I. Weiss, Senior Partner, Milberg Weiss 

Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP; New York, New 

York 

Marina v.N. Whitman, Professor of Business 

Administration and Public Policy, University of 

Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Robert Whitman‚ Professor Emeritus, 

Department of English, University of Pittsburgh; 

Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Vitaly Zhurkin, Director, Institute of Europe, 

Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow 

Special Thanks to 

RAYMOND E. BENSON 

DIRECTOR OF THE 


FROM 1996 TO 1999 

The Universities Project and the 

Salzburg Seminar honor Ray 

Benson for his leadership of and 

commitment to the Universities 

Project. Ray served as director of the 

Project since its inception in late 

1996 until July 1999. The success of 

the Project is due in no small part to 

Ray’s vision, experience, dedication 

and humanity. All of us associated 

with the Universities Project and the 

Salzburg Seminar wish Ray well in 

his retirement, and look forward to 

seeing him again in Salzburg at the 

November 2001 symposium.

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