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SUMMARY:Higher Education in America and Britain: Trans-Atlantic Lessons fr
 om the New York Commission on Higher Education -  Dr. John B. Clark\, Inte
 rim Chancellor\, State University of New York Discussant: Dr. Bruce Leslie
 \, Professor of History\, SUNY-Brockport and Visiting Scholar
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CONTACT:Katie O'Donovan
DESCRIPTION:This seminar is an opportunity to hear from the Chancellor of 
 one of the three largest universities in the world\, and to have the oppor
 tunity to discuss emerging issues that affect teaching\, research\, resour
 cing and funding on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nDr. Clark is Interim Ch
 ancellor of the State University of New York (aka ‘SUNY’)\, the larges
 t university system in the U.S.\, with over 420\,000 students across 64 ca
 mpuses.  He is also a member of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s ‘Blue Ri
 bbon’ Commission on Higher Education\, charged with designing New York S
 tate’s approach to public and private higher education in the coming dec
 ades.  The Commission published its Preliminary Report in December.\n\nCha
 ncellor Clark (in America the ‘Chancellor’ is de facto as well as titu
 lar leader) will outline the findings of the Report (with copies available
  before his visit) and provide a commentary on some of its salient issues.
   Professor Leslie\, who is an expert on comparative higher education\, wi
 ll briefly draw out some of the connections with higher education in the U
 .K.\n\nA number of the issues in the Report will resonate on this side of 
 the Atlantic.  Among them are: the demands on universities for research pr
 estige and cutting-edge\, economically beneficial research\; access from s
 econdary schools and non-baccalaureate colleges\; the demographic composit
 ion (i.e.\, “diversity”) of students and faculty\; the role of teachin
 g universities\; and the balance of public and private funding.  As Britai
 n comes to grips with mass higher education in general and the aftermath o
 f the 2003 White Paper specifically\, issues for discussion may include in
 ternational research rankings\, Foundation Courses\, access\, student ‘d
 iversity’\, transfer among institutions\, and the fate of non-Russell Gr
 oup institutions after the next RAE.\n\nA contrasting state of affairs\n\n
 The scope of higher education in New York State provides fascinating paral
 lels and contrasts with the Britain scene. In addition to the public SUNY 
 and CUNY (City University of New York) systems\, there are nearly 150 priv
 ate colleges and universities in New York State\, ranging from small liber
 al arts colleges to two (Columbia and Cornell) ‘Ivy League’ universiti
 es. In addition to four research universities and 32 community colleges\, 
 SUNY includes 12 non-doctoral ‘university colleges’\, two medical cent
 res\, 8 technical colleges\, and public-private partnerships in fields suc
 h as ceramics\, forestry\, optometry\, veterinary medicine\, and industria
 l relations.
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge. Room GS4
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