Fall 2017 Schedule
Mondays 12:30 – 1:45pm in SCANCOR (Ceras 123)
September 25
Introductions
October 2
Hyper-mangement: The rise of the corporate superhero
Patricia Bromley
October 9
Higher Education as Rationalized and Empowered: An Analysis of Mission Statements of American Universities
Naejin Kwak
October 16
Creating divided fields - the case of social entrepreneurship in England
Tanja Collavo (Said Business School, University of Oxford)
October 23
The Decline (and Persistence) of Selective Models of Education: Global Trends in the Use of High Stakes Examinations, 1960-2010
Jared Furuta
October 30
The Rise of International Policy Models and Recommendations: The Case of the OECD
Marjaana Rautalin (University of Tampere)
November 6
Role identity and sensemaking as institutional mechanisms for policy translation: The case of school principals and education reforms in Israel
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
November 13
The University as an Institution
John W. Meyer
November 20
No workshop (Thanksgiving Recess)
November 27
Topic: The Development Office in Higher Education
Nadine Ann Skinner
December 4
Competing Nationalisms and Comparative Language Brokering Perspectives
Kimberly Higuera