We would like to invite you to the upcoming public lecture organized by the Institute for Higher Education Management.

Title: Dissolving Certainties and Emerging Identities: The Role of Science Management in Shaping the ‘Authentic University’
Date: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 3pm CET
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele, Executive Director, CHE Centre for Higher Education
Location: online via MS Teams livestream.

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Abstract:
The higher education landscape is undergoing profound transformations and established certainties are dissolving. These dynamics, however, provide the unique opportunity for universities to refine and strengthen their institutional identity. The presentation explores how universities can actively shape their profile instead of passively reacting to external pressures. By examining a spectrum of possible future university models, it showcases strategic pathways for differentiation. A key focus is on the role of science management in this transformation. How can it facilitate authentic institutional profiling? What governance structures, leadership approaches, and change management strategies are required? The presentation will outline practical approaches to navigating uncertainty and strengthening universities’ identities in a rapidly evolving academic landscape.

About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele is executive director of the CHE Centre for Higher Education, Gütersloh, as well as professor for higher education and research management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. As an expert for higher education, he is active as a consultant, researcher, trainer and speaker all over the world. He holds a master’s in business administration from University of Hohenheim and a Ph.D. from Ruhr-University Bochum. He is responsible for large-scale applied research projects (e.g. the European U-Multirank project), but also for the practical implementation of reforms in the higher education sector (e.g. as Worldbank consultant). In more than 20 years he has contributed with more than 150 publications and more than 100 national and international projects to the field of higher education. He is or was a member in numerous boards, such as editorial boards, the advisory board of the German Network for Research and Transfer Management (FORTRAMA) and the board of the German Society for Higher Education Research.

Please register at this link to join the webinar: https://eduhk.zoom.us/meeting/register/QbvwTTtGR-CoxVWohFjnTA

Professor Marek Kwiek holds the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy at the AMU University of Poznan, Poland. He is the Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies (CPPS). His research areas are sociology of science and higher education research and policy. His focus is on international research collaboration, academic productivity, and social stratification in science. His recent monograph is Changing European Academics (Routledge, 2019). His recent invited seminars include Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Beijing, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and many European universities. A coordinating editor of Higher Education, an editorial board member of Higher Education Quarterly and British Educational Research Journal. A Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in Salzburg and Academia Europaea in London. Elsevier and Stanford University have listed him among the top 2% of most highly cited scientists in the world in the past five years.

 

CHER and its Chaiperson Hugo Horta, from The University of Hong Kong, would like to call your attention to the HERA 2025 conference that will take place on the 9^th and 10^th of June of 2025 in Hong Kong.

Please join us for an exciting conference on the theme "The future of higher education: facing new and old challenges".

The website for the conference is available here: https://hera2025.hku.hk/.

The submission of abstracts is going to be open until February 1^st of 2025: https://hera2025.hku.hk/call-for-proposals.

We Hope that you can join us in Hong Kong, and debate with us the possible futures for higher education.

There is an open Call for Papers for the journal Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (ZFHE), under the topic "New Models of the university: innovative structures, adaptive responses, and strategic behavior".For detailed information, please click here.