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FACDIS Twenty-Sixth Annual Workshops

Globalization & Education: Challenges for the 21st Century Citizen


November 2-3, 2006
Lakeview Resort & Conference Center
Morgantown, West Virginia

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Final Program

Thursday, November 2

Friday, November 3

WORKSHOP LEADERS

WILLIAM K. CUMMINGS, George Washington University

From his high school days in India, Dr. William Cummings became interested in social change. During graduate school at Harvard University, he focused on East Asia (especially Japan). Following an initial academic career in sociology and Japanese studies, including the authorship of Japanese Education and Equality (1980), he decided to devote more time to actual development work which, over more than a quarter century has included long-term residence in Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore, and short-term consultancies in over 15 countries in Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Included in this work has been experience in developing higher education programs and monitoring their progress for OECD, the World Bank, USAID, and the Ford Foundation. During his recent tenure as Senior Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia, he has assisted the Ministry in completing six major policy studies. Dr. Cummings has authored or edited over 100 articles and 20 books or monographs on education and development including Values Education for Dynamic Societies (2002) and The Institutions of Education (2003). Past president of the Comparative and International Education Society, Dr. Cummings is Professor International Education and International Affairs at George Washington University.

ROBERT F. LAWSON, Ohio State University

With more than twenty years of experience in university administrative posts, Robert Lawson currently serves as Professor of Comparative Education and Director of the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at The Ohio State University. An experienced teacher at many levels of education, including high school teaching at the beginning of his career, Lawson is a specialist on comparative educational systems, educational policies, and politics and education. In his distinguished career he has taught at numerous universities, including UCLA, the University of Calgary, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Lethbridge and has conducted extensive research in Germany, Canada, South Africa, and various locations in Central Europe. Among his studies are Changing Patterns of Secondary Education: An International Comparison (1987), "The Evolution of Democratic Education in South Africa" in Epstein and McGinn, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Education and Democratization (1999) and "Democracy and the Study of Germany" in Limage, ed., Democratizing Education and Educating Democratic Citizens: International and Historical Perspectives (2002). A past president of the Comparative and International Education Society, he is a graduate of the University of Michigan, which honored him in 1990 with that university's outstanding alumnus award.

DANIEL C. LEVY, State University of New York at Albany

Daniel Levy is Distinguished Professor, affiliated in Education, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Political Science, and Publicy Policy. His seven books (most with university presses) and over one-hundred articles concentrate on higher education policy globally, related non-profit sectors, or Latin American politics. His Building the Third Sector won the 1997 prize for best book in nonprofit and voluntary action research from the leading academic association in the field. Levy has lectured at nearly all the top-ranked U.S. universities and in six continents, also consulting for leading international agencies. He is co-author of the Inter-American Development Bank's first ever policy paper on higher education. Levy directs the Ford Foundation-funded project, PROPHE (Program for Research on Private Higher Education), now in its fifth year, and is a core faculty member of the Comparative and International Education Policy Program. PROPHE includes scholars and Ph.D. students in five continents. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina.

GREGORY S. STARRETT, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Gregory Starrett, a graduate of Stanford University, studied Islam, media, and politics in Egypt, the United States, and the larger Muslim world. His book, Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics and Religious Transformation in Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), examines the historical and contemporary use of religious education programs in public schools, and their connection to state politics and popular Islamic movements. Professor Starrett's research on the cultural politics of Islam has been published in most of the major journals in his field, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. More recently, he has conducted research on the complexities of identity formation among African-American Muslims, the presentation of non-Muslims in Egyptian schoolbooks, and the cultural dimensions of threat perception in the United States. Dr. Starrett has also presented his research to audiences at the U.S. Department of State, the Library of Congress, and major universities across the country.

LUNCHEON SPEAKER: CLARK EGNOR, Marshall University

Clark Egnor is Executive Director of the Center for International Programs at Marshall University. As chief university officer responsible for all international programs and activities, Dr. Egnor oversees the university's study abroad and exchange programs, the international student programs which serves over 400 international students, the international admissions office and the English as a Second Language Program. He is the 2005 Cyrus R. Vance Award winner for International Education in West Virginia, past president of West Virginia Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (WVTESOL), a Commissioner for the West Virginia Governor's Commission on International Education and Chair of the Chancellor's Council for Internationalizing Higher Education in West Virginia. In his capacity as state whip for NAFSA: Association for International Educators, he is responsible for maintaining relationships with members of Congress and activating his fellow NAFSA members in West Virginia to participate in advocacy campaigns. He has an Ed.D. and MA from WVU in Educational Administration and Foreign Languages and a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University. As an undergraduate student, he studied abroad for a year at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan, and later lived and worked in Japan for four years during the late 1980s.

AUTHOR EVENT: MICHAEL J. STRADA, West Liberty State College

Michael J. Strada has taught international studies courses at West Liberty State College (WLSC) since 1969, and at WVU, as a visiting professor from 1985-2001. His professional travel has taken him to about 40 countries, including leadership of nine travel-study trips to Russia, and selection in 1990 to teach for the Semester at Sea program. He served as FACDIS statewide Study Abroad Coordinator (12 years), and FACDIS Co-Director (four years). Strada's teaching philosophy entails a verifiable commitment to critical thinking skills, active learning strategies, and writing-across-the curriculum. Syllabus research led to the publication of several articles and has culminated in the present volume, Benefits of Model Syllabi (2006). On three occasions WLSC has recognized Strada with faculty achievement awards. In 2001, the WV Political Science Association chose him for its Distinguished Political Science Award (based on teaching, research, service); then, in 2003, he received WLSC's first Meritorious Professorship, and in 2005 finished as a runner-up in the statewide Professor of the Year competition. He has authored 17 educational grants ($370,650), three books, and 21 articles in refereed academic journals and four in high-circulation publications like USA TODAY.

 

 

 

 

 

FACDIS ORGANIZATION

FACDIS Director:

Jack L. Hammersmith, Dept of History, WVU; (304)293-2421 x 5235; email: jhammer@wvu.edu

FACDIS Assistant Director:

Gretchen Peterec, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; (304)293-7140; email: Gretchen.Peterec@mail.wvu.edu

Administrative Secretary:

Sharon Nestor, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; snestor@wvu.edu

FACDIS Founding Director (1980-1997):

Sophia Peterson, Professor Emerita, Dept. of Political Science, WVU; (304) 293-7140

Institutional Representatives, Study Abroad Advisers, and Steering Committee (2006)

INSTITUTION

INSTITUTIONAL
REPRESENTATIVE

STUDY ABROAD
REPRESENTATIVE

Alderson-Broaddus College*

Ken Yount

Jim Daddysman

Bethany College**

John Lozier

Joseph Lovano

Bluefield State College**

Patricia Mulvey

John White

Concord University

Carmen Durrani

Carmen Durrani

Davis & Elkins College*

David Turner

Barbara Fulks

Fairmont State University

Patricia Ryan

Patricia Ryan

Glenville State College

R. Michael Smith

C. E. Wood

Marshall University**

David Mills

Maria C. Riddle

Potomac State College

Fred Jacoby

Fred Jacoby

Salem International University

Larry Zbach

Larry Zbach

Shepherd University

Roland Bergman

Linda Kinney

University of Charleston

Sarah Adams

Sarah Adams

West Liberty State College

Brian Crawford

Michael Strada

WVU Institute of Technology

Jan Rezek

Jan Rezek

WV Northern Comm. College

Frank DeCaria

Denny Roth

WV State University

James Natsis

James Natsis

West Virginia University

Michael Lastinger

Tara George-Jones

WVU-Parkersburg*

Rebecca Phillips

Gregory & Mary Beth Busch

WV Wesleyan College

Kwame Boateng

Kwame Boateng

Wheeling Jesuit University

Joe Laker

Dominick DeFilippis

* Institution whose Institutional Representative serves on the Steering Committee until November 30, 2006

** Institutions whose IR serves on the Steering Committee until November 30, 2007