UK-US Higher Education Partnerships Forum2 December 2011

One Whitehall Place, Horseguards, London

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the UK-US Higher Education Partnerships Forum.

The purpose of this event is to support your institution’s strategic partnership with the USA.

We are delighted you are able to attend and discuss emerging models and best practices of

partnerships, supported by a range of experts from across the US higher education sector.

In 2009, the British Council commissioned the report, “Realising the Potential”

(Kemp/Humphrey) which recommended a step change to re-energise our higher education

relations with the USA. The report warned against complacency in relation to engaging with

the leading global knowledge economy, especially within the context of a changing new

economic world order.

Last year, we launched the “New Partnership Fund” – which granted seed funding to over

30 new transatlantic projects – half of which included third country institutions, that ranged

from Brazil and India to Rwanda and Palestine.

This year, the British Council has launched the UK-India-US component to the UKIERI

programme, supporting a new range of trilateral projects. We also convened leaders from

both higher education sectors, governments and business at Windsor Castle to discuss plans

for a new large scale multilateral initiative.

President Obama and the Prime Minister, in their joint statement on UK-US Higher Education,

Science and Innovation Collaboration earlier this year, underlined the importance of greater

co-operation. This statement encouraged the British Council to continue its work in

stimulating institutional links, student and staff/faculty mobility and internships.

We hope this will be a productive forum for you and thank you for attending.

Richard Everitt Director Education, British Council USA

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08.45 Registration

09.15 Welcome and Introduction by Chair

Richard Everitt (Director Education, British Council USA)

9:20 Plenary

The Importance of Strategic Partnerships and the US Professor Nigel Thrift (Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick)

09.30 – 10.30 Panel

A US Perspective – Changing Models for Success

Facilitator: Professor Colin Grant (Pro-Vice Chancellor of International, University of Surrey)

Dr. John Dooley, (Vice President for Outreach and International Affairs, Virginia Tech)

Daniel Obst (Deputy Vice President, Institute of International Education)

Dr. Heather Barclay Hamir (Director of the Study Abroad Office, University of Texas at Austin)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

11.00 – 12.00 Panel

Building Research Partnerships – Some US Approaches

Facilitator: Dr. Neil Kemp OBE

Dr. Vicki Colvin (Director of the Center for Biological & Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN),

Rice University)

Dr. Robert Clarke (Interim Director for the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization at Georgetown

University Medical Center (GUMC), Georgetown University)

Dr. Robert M Price (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California-Berkeley)

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

PROGRAMME

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13.15 Plenary

‘Opportunity Creation’ – Partnering with Corporations Bill Swisher (Director, Corporate and Institutional Partnerships, Carnegie Mellon University)

14.00 – 14.45 Case Study

University of St. Andrews and the College of William & Mary – Engineering the Perfect Partnership: Study Abroad to Dual Degrees

Facilitator: Dr. Shaun Curtis (Director of International, University of Exeter)

Professor Lorna Milne (Proctor, University of St. Andrews)

Dr. Eugene Tracy (Interim Dean of Arts and Science, College of William & Mary)

14.45 – 15.00 Coffee

15.00 – 15.15 Updates

UK-US Partnership Programs UpdatesUK-US-India funding – Malyaj Varmani (Project Manager UKERI, British Council India)

New Partnership Fund updates – Richard Everitt (Director Education, British Council USA)

15.15 – 16.30 Breakout Workshops

A. Market Intelligence: Projected Student Mobility Update Dr. Janet Ilieva (Head of Research, British Council Hong Kong)

Facilitator: Malsert Chapman (Director Programmes New York, British Council USA)

B. Trilateral Relations: (Surrey, North Carolina and Sao Paulo) Professor Colin Grant (Pro-Vice Chancellor of International, University of Surrey)

Facilitator: Malyaj Varmani (Project Manager UKERI, British Council India)

C. Centralising Institutional US StrategyProfessor Shane O’Neill (Dean of Faculty- Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Queens University – Belfast)

Facilitator: Libby Rosenbaum (Higher Education Partnership Manager, British Council USA)

16.30 Networking Drinks

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BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Robert Clarke Interim Director for the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization, Georgetown University

Dr. Robert Clarke is the Dean for Research at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), Interim

Director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization at Georgetown University, Associate Vice

President of Georgetown University Medical Center, and Co- Director of the Breast Cancer Program at

the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is an internationally recognized leader in breast cancer

research.

Currently, Dr. Clarke leads several multinational molecular medicine studies in breast cancer, in

collaboration with Dr. Minetta Liu (LCCC) and colleagues at Virginia Tech and the University of Edinburgh

(Scotland). With Dr. Subha Madhavan at LCCC, he leads an NCI-funded In Silico Research Center of

Excellence. Dr. Clarke also leads the caBIG team at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at

Georgetown University and he is regularly invited to speak about his research at international and

national meetings. Dr. Clarke recently completed his tenure as Chair of an NIH peer-review study section.

He also serves on the editorial boards of over a dozen international peer review journals. Dr. Clarke is a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the

Institute of Biology in the U.K.

Dr. Vicki Colvin Director, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University

Dr. Vicki Colvin received her Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Stanford University in

1988, and in 1994 obtained her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where

she worked under the guidance of Dr. Paul Alivisatos. During her time at the University of California,

Berkeley, Colvin was awarded the American Chemical Society’s Victor K. LaMer Award for her work in

colloid and surface chemistry. Colvin completed her postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Labs and joined

Rice University in 1997. Today, she serves as the Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University as well as Director of its Center for

Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN). CBEN is one of the nation’s first Nanoscience

and Engineering Centers funded by the National Science Foundation and its research centers on the

applications of nanotechnology in environmental and biological systems. She is also co-director of the

Richard E. Smalley Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, an initiative that develops and

promotes nanotechnology research at Rice University.

Colvin has received numerous accolades for her teaching abilities, including Phi Beta Kappa’s

Teaching Prize for 1998-1999 and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award in 2002. In 2002, she

was also named one of Discover Magazine’s “Top 20 Scientists to Watch” and received an Alfred P.

Sloan Fellowship. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science (AAAS) in 2008 and one of Esquire magazine’s Best and Brightest (2008).

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Dr. John E. Dooley Vice President for Outreach and International Affairs, Virginia Tech

John E. Dooley leads Virginia Tech’s international centers, regional R&D centers, and Commonwealth

campuses plus institutes dedicated to language and policy. He promotes student engagement as well as

the university’s strong role in improving the well-being of people around the world.

A member of the faculty of Virginia Tech since 1982, Dooley has been an active member of the

university community through several committees and special projects. His service includes the Task

Force on Disciplinary and Honor Systems, the University Steering Committee for the Southern

Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation Self-Study, and the University Advisory Council on

Strategic Planning and Budget. He has also been faculty advisor to Baptist Student Union and the

Virginia Tech Collegiate 4-H Club. His community activities include leadership roles at Blacksburg Baptist

Church, a Trustee at Baptist Theological Seminary of Richmond, and serving on the board of several

non-profit organizations.

In addition to his bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Alderson-Broaddus College (West

Virginia), Dooley earned a master’s and Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. Both graduate degrees are in higher

education administration.

Dr. Heather Barclay Hamir Director Study Abroad, The University of Texas at Austin

Heather Barclay Hamir has served as Director of the Study Abroad Office at The University of Texas at

Austin since 2008. In this role, she oversees office operations, develops policy related to study abroad

activity at the university, and works with faculty, staff, and students to achieve the office’s vision of

equal access to education abroad opportunities for a diverse population of students. Heather

completed her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Nebraska-

Lincoln and holds masters’ degrees in College Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies from

Oregon State University. Her dissertation research examined the positive relationship between study

abroad participation, retention, and degree completion at UT Austin – findings which now guide the

development of strategic partnerships and programming at the university. Heather is an active

member of several international education organizations, and currently holds elected positions on the

Forum on Education Abroad’s Forum Council and the Academic Consortium Board of the Council on

International Educational Exchange (CIEE). Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, Hamir

served as Director of Study Abroad & Exchange Programs at Central Washington University in

Washington State.

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Daniel Obst Deputy VP, International Partnerships in Higher Education, Institute of International Education

Daniel Obst is Director of Membership and Higher Education Services at the Institute of International

Education (IIE) in New York. IIE is one of the leading not-for-profit organizations in the field of

international educational exchange and development training. IIE administers the Fulbright Program,

sponsored by the United States Department of State, and 250 other corporate, government and

privately sponsored programs.

Mr. Obst directs all the activities of the IIENetwork, the Institute’s university membership association of

900 higher education institutions around the world, and oversees IIE’s print and online publications. He

is also managing editor of IIENetworker, IIE’s international education magazine, and recently co-wrote an

IIE White Paper on Meeting America’s Global Education Challenge and edited Funding for United States

Study: A Scholarship Guide for Europeans. Mr. Obst also designs and conducts seminars and study tours

for international educators, administrators and other university leaders, and is a frequent presenter on

international education topics.

Prior to joining the Institute in 2001, Mr. Obst was Director of Product Development at iAgora.com, a

website for international students. Mr. Obst, who was born and raised in Germany, received his B.A. in

International Relations from the George Washington University and holds a Master’s degree in

European Studies from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Robert M. Price Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, the University of California- Berkeley

Robert M. Price is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Political Science at the

University of California, Berkeley. A native of Brooklyn, New York, in 1963 he undertook his graduate

work in political science at UC Berkeley, where he received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He joined the

Berkeley faculty in the Department of Political Science in 1970, and served as Department Chair from

1996 through 2001.

Professor Price’s research and teaching interests include comparative politics and African affairs, with

a special emphasis on the politics of contemporary South Africa. He is author of Society and

Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), U.S. Foreign

Policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa: National Interest and Global Strategy (Berkeley: Institute of

International Studies, 1979), The Apartheid Regime: Political Power and Racial Domination (co-editor,

Berkeley: Institute of International Studies Publications, 1980), and The Apartheid State in Crisis (New

York: Oxford University Press, 1991), as well as a variety of journal articles and book chapters dealing

with the new African state, U.S. foreign policy towards Africa, and political change in South Africa.

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Bill Swisher Director, Office of Corporate and Institutional Partnerships, Carnegie Mellon

Bill Swisher joined the corporate and foundation relations team at Carnegie Mellon University in

February 2003. As senior director, Mr. Swisher works with leading foundations and corporations to

identify mutually beneficial partner opportunities between the university and their organization. He leads

a team at Carnegie Mellon that generates more than $30 million annually for the university.

Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Mr. Swisher served as a director of corporate and foundation relations at the

University of Pittsburgh, where he oversaw philanthropic activities in the College of Arts and Sciences

and the School of Information Science with a focus on information and medical technologies.

Mr. Swisher received an M.S. Ed. in higher education administration from Southern Illinois University

and B.A.s in English writing and communications and rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh.

He is a founding co-chair of the Network for Academic Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO) and

current steering committee member and member of the Council for Advancement and Support of

Education (CASE).

Dr. Eugene Tracy Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, College of William & Mary

Eugene R. Tracy, Chancellor Professor of Physics, began his tenure as Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences

at William & Mary on July 1, 2011.

Tracy received a B.S. in physics in 1980 from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in theoretical plasma

physics in 1984 from the University of Maryland in College Park. He joined the faculty at William & Mary

in 1984. His interests range from the very basic to the very applied.

He has taught courses at all levels, from freshman seminars to advanced topics courses for graduate

students. During his time at the College he has created new courses on energy and the environment,

strategic weapons and the arms race, time in science and science fiction, nonlinear dynamics, linear and

nonlinear waves, and time series analysis. He has also guided well over a dozen senior thesis projects,

most of which received Honors designations. At the graduate level he has advised or co-advised

approximately ten Ph.D. students, who are now working at national labs, universities, or private

companies in areas as diverse as finance, climate modeling, biomedical device development, fusion

research, and algae biofuels.

Tracy’s work has been supported by a wide range of funding sources, including the National Science

Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, and private companies

such as, most recently, Statoil, the Norwegian oil company.

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