Department and Faculty Highlights
Department of Organizational Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education
Dr. Steve Klees (Professor and Program Director, International Education Policy) recently completed his term as president of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Educacao e Sociedade at the University of Campinas, Brazil and the International Review of Education, a publication of UNESCO’s Institute of Education. Dr. Klees is currently involved through World Learning in the evaluation of a USAID project aimed at education and health improvement through civil society strengthening in Angola. In 2007, through Macro International he evaluated a U.S. Department of Labor project in Brazil designed to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Dr. Klees will present a paper at the International Conference on the Implications of Language for Peace and Development at the University of Oslo, Norway in May, 2008.
Dr. Alberto Cabrera (Professor and, Higher Education) has been working with Dr. Wietse De Vries, Vice-president of Planning and Institutional Research of the University Autonomous of Puebla, on a series of papers assessing the impact of Mexican educational policies on Mexican college graduates. The results of this research were presented before the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The title of the paper is: Cabrera, A.F., Wietse D., V., & Anderson, S. (November, 2007). Job satisfaction among Mexican alumni: A case of incongruence between hunch-based policies and labor market demands. This manuscript is under review by Higher Education. Dr. Cabrera is a member of the editorial board of Revista Complutense de Educacion in Madrid, Spain and a member of the advisory board of the Higher Education Accreditation Agency of the Provincial Government of Aragon, Spain. He has also been a keynote or plenary speaker at conferences in Spain and Mexico.
Dr. Kerry Ann O’Meara (Associate Professor, Higher Education) is a consultant for the Social Science Research Council of Canada on faculty community engagement and changing reward systems to support it. She also worked with the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts for the Russian rectors visit on a session on organizational change and faculty issues.
Dr. Jing Lin (Professor, International Education Policy) is co-investigator for a project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council in Canada. The project, entitled "China’s Move to Mass Higher Education: Implications for Civil Society and Global Cultural Dialogue," focuses on the transition of China’s higher education system from an elite system to a mass higher education system. Dr. Lin has also been the keynote or invited speakers at several universities in China on peace education and globalization.
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