Salzburg Seminar – Universities Project - Milika Dhamo

Marcellette Williams, Deputy
Chancellor, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Jochen Fried, Director, Universities
Project, Salzburg Seminar
Josef Jarab (Team Leader), Former
Rector, Palacky University, Olomouc,
Czech Republic; Former Rector,
Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary
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
Andris Barblan, Secretary General,
Association of European Universities,
Geneva, Switzerland
Neil Grabois, President, Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York, USA
C. Peter Magrath (Team Leader),
President, National Association of
State University and Land-Grant
Colleges, Washington, DC, USA
Jochen Fried, Director, Universities
Project, Salzburg Seminar
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
Edward Jakubauskas, Senior
Economist, Center for International
Business and Economic Studies,
University of Colorado at Denver;
President Emeritus, Central Michigan
University, USA
Jan Sadlak (Team Leader), Director,
UNESCO-CEPES, Bucharest, Romania
Jochen Fried, Director, Universities
Project, Salzburg Seminar
Focus: University administration and
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
Jochen Fried, Director, Universities
Project, Salzburg Seminar
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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