Tohoku University's Institute for Excellence in Higher Education will hold an international symposium on academic leadership on November 23 at the Sendai International Center. The symposium will highlight the rapidly changing landscape of higher education, and the need to development academic leaders to support effective governance.
Academic administrators from Australia, the UK, Taiwan and Japan will share their expertise on strategic management and education reform in the context of their own countries, while addressing the common challenges that all higher education institutes face.
Date: November 23
Time: 10:30am - 5:00pm
Venue: Sendai International Center
Directions: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/facilities/conferences_events/221_sendai_international_center.html
The symposium is open to faculty members and those with a particular interest in higher education.
Language: There will be simultaneous translation in English and Japanese.
Programme:
| 10:30-10:40am | Opening Kimio Hanawa, Executive Vice President of Tohoku University and Director of IEHE, Tohoku University |
| 10:40-11:10am | Keynote speech Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Professor, Vice-Director of Center for Professional Development, IEHE, Tohoku University |
| 11:10-11:50am | Academic leadership and current challenges in higher education: an Australian perspective Peter McPhee, Former Provost, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 11:50am-12:30pm | The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (UK)-Inspiring Leadership and Catalysing Change Doug Parkin, Programme Director, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch break As there are no eateries at the venue, participants can order lunch boxes for 1,000 yen when registering online. |
| 1:30-2:10pm | Academic Leadership toward a Greater University Hung-Chi Kuo, Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Taiwan University |
| 2:10-2:50pm | University governance and academic leadership in Japan (TBD) Motohisa Kaneko, Emeritus Professor of University of Tokyo and Former President of Japanese Association of Higher Education Research |
| 2:50-3:10pm | Break time |
| 3:10-4:50pm | Panel discussion: Richard James, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Melbourne, Australia) Moderators: Fujio Ohmori, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University Takashi Sekiuchi, Professor, Director of Center for Institutional Research, IEHE, Tohoku University |
| 4:50-5:00pm | Closing ceremony Takashi Hata, Vice Director of IEHE and Director of CPD, Tohoku University |
| 6:00pm | Reception - 5,000 yen (registration required) Uesugi - Chinese retsaurant - walking distance of Sendai Station |
Contact:
The Institute for Excellence in Higher EducationEmail: iehe-seminar
g-mail.tohoku-university.jp