Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
I attended the SunGard Higher Education Executive Summit and Summit conferences in early April 2009. This was the first time I attended Executive Summit and I found it to be highly valuable. There were about 250 senior Higher Education leaders from around the world in attendance. We were presented with roadmaps and strategic directions by senior SunGard HE leadership.
It has been one year since Ron Lang started as CEO and the transformation and direction of the company has moved to be more proactive and value focused. This is great for us as SGHE clients. There are many more changes coming and I am confident we have a good partner in SGHE.
Below are links to my notes from the Summit presentations that I attended:
There were plenty of sessions and no one person can cover them all. I am fortunate to have met key people in SGHE and just as importantly, connecting and reconnecting with my higher education peers and colleagues.
Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
SGHE Summit – Plenary The Global Campus – Higher Education goes International
IAU - International Association of Universities
New: Internationalizations Strategies Advisory Service (ISAS)
Key Concepts
- Diversity – national (regional) and institutional, contexts, resources, goals/rationales
- Shared Definition of internationalizations prevails – a multidimentional and comprehensive process to introduce international and intercultural dimensions into learning, research, services and deliver of higher education
- Multiplicity of implementation approaches
Principles
- proactive effort
- cooperation and partnerships among equals
- ethical behaviour, mutual respect and shared benefits
- priority to academic rationales and to models that safeguard or improve quality and accessibility
- promotion of geographically balanced and contextually relevant approaches by identifying and minimizing risks
3rd IAU Global Survey
Methodology
- an international task force
- online questionnaire in 5 languages
- continuity of questions from 2003 and 2005
n=745 – majority of responses from Europe 44%
Why Internationalize?
- improve student preparedness for international studies
- internationalize curriculum
- enhance international profile
- Africa and Middle East reason strengthen research and knowledge capacity
- Europe reason increase profile
Increase in importance in 3 years of internationalization up by 80%
Only 67% of institutions had a policy for internationalization, 72% have a budget attached, but monitoring frameworks (QA) down to 48%
Bologna Process – Europe striving to be the most attractive higher education location for international students but Africa, Latin America and the Middle East see themselves as the most important source of international students
Barriers – External Obstacles
- difficulties of recognition for credits and courses
- language barrier
- Visa restrictions also limit options
- #1 obstacle – funding and cost to the student
Conclusions Read more...
- primary focus is on student’s preparedness
- congruence between rationales and expected benefits but regional differences
- student mobility opportunities are important but the impact is different
- international research collaboration is important
- growth of importance of internationalization as a policy area with budgets being allocated
- linkage between prestige and internationalization but has related risks by limiting collaboration
- disaggregation of data and regional analysis shows divergence on many aspects
- Middle East and Africa are challenging areas because they are only focusing on their own region
- Europe is the most popular region
- funding is the most important obstacle
- problems of credit and course recognition persist
Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
Millennial, Metrics and the New Media – John Della Volpe (@dellavolpe)
Millenials are a Big Deal
- Millenials = 13 to 30 year olds, they are the largest generation in human history and they have a significant impact on the economy
- This generation has trust issues – especially with traditional media and old institutions and they are not afraid to let you know it.
- They trust a recommendation from a friend 4x as much as TV and email.
- Connecting online was not a fluke, millennial’ brains are wired differently.
- Gen X (latch key kids) – first generation where both parents are working. TV was the primary entertainer
- Millennial (also latch key kids) – now the internet is the primary entertainer and they interact socially on the web
- if not for Millennials, Hilary Clinton would be the president of the USA and not Barak Obama (e.g. Millenials voted for Obama 57% to 11% in Iowa) – Obama campaign targeted Millenials, Clinton did not
What are Millenials Thinking about today
- Politics and Government (latest Harvard IOP Survey)
- Obama’s job performance stable
- Republicans eyeing midterm elections
- US Military most trusted institutions surveyed
- Economy
- economic anxiety is palpable
- majority concerned about keeping head above water
- half of students concerned about staying in college
- Service
- millennials remain committed to community service
Stats on concern about keeping head above water 45% stay in college, 46% ability to live in the city they want, 56% afford health care, 58% affort a place to liver, 60% ability to pay bills
“The Facebook” and Social Media
- Facebook is the 3rd largest country by population, China, India, Facebook, USA …
- by next Jan 2011, there will be more people 50+ yo on facebook than <30 yo
- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com for stats
- Facebook is mainstream while Twitter skews younger
Mapping Your SocialSphere
- ORBIT Map http://socialsphere.com
- 4 categories of sites on the Internet – General News (traditional), Industry News, Social Frameworks (Networks), Blogs and Communities – target type graphic for College Applicants and their interaction with the 4 types
What has Changed in the Last 18 Months Read more...
- College Confidential, College Prowler, Zinch – social ranking sites
- YouTube is starting to become more relevant and influential – video is really taking off
- good Facebook site are becoming the ‘state of practice”