New Blog: Global Higher Ed: Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the 'Knowledge Economy'

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.

Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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Global Higher Ed is new to us, since we just discovered it, via Inside Higher Ed. It's not the kind of blog you normally read, instead its posts are quite lengthy and the writing is more formal rather than colloquial, often consisting of the text of published reports or interviews. It is self-described as "The GlobalHigherEd weblog and Twitter feed are both designed to highlight and then archive information about new developments (e.g., a new policy or development project), resources (e.g., reports, websites), analytical networks, and so on, so as to better track what is happening with respect to the construction of new globalized knowledge/spaces. We are interested in how and why new knowledge and new spaces (including socio-technical networks) are being developed in association with the emergence of the ‘knowledge economy’, and what the implications of this complex development process are, especially for global public affairs."

Recent posts include

• "International perspectives on higher education funding structures,"
• "Bologna Policy Forum Keynote Speech – Building the global knowledge society: systemic and institutional change,"
• "Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area,"
• "International perspectives on higher education funding structures,"
• "Celebrating, protesting and reflecting about the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Bologna Process,"
• "Europe 2020: what are the implications of Europe’s new economic strategy for global higher ed & research?,"
• "A Southeast Asian perspective on university development cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality,"
• "Tweeting about Phoenix’s Chicago, Chicago’s Phoenix, and other matters,"
• "Euro-Asia university cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality,"
• "OECD launches first global assessment of higher education learning outcomes," and
• "TUNING USA: Echoes and translations of the Bologna Process in the US higher education landscape."

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"