Salzburg Seminar – Universities Project - Milika Dhamo

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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