Bologna Observations on the Bologna Agreement: Analyzing the Impact on US Higher Education.

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Observations on the Bologna Agreement:Analyzing the Impact on US Higher Education



Outline for the hour

Background • History • What is it? • Impact(s)

Examples and Reports from others

What Bologna is not

What it really means to us and how it might impact us?

Questions

Background



Yes, there is Bologna in Bologna

the scale of reform is enormous

Unprecedented in higher education# of students

# of institutions# of countries and languages


Bologna resounds

UNESCO City of Music

who’s afraid of being?

you have the freedom to change your mind

a revolution in aesthetics

The Bologna Process is not an EU initiative. 27 Member States of the EU

The Bologna Process - 46 participating countries

23 major languages

4000+ universities

16 million students




23 major languages

4000+ universities

16 million students


United States

One? language?5700+ universities

14+ million students



23 major languages

4000+ universities

16 million students

But, when Russia and Turkey and all IEHE countries are considered, the total will be 25-30

million students


United States

One? language?5700+ universities

14+ million students

1988 • Bologna Magna Charta Universitatum

1998 • Sorbonne Declaration

1999 • Bologna Declaration

Bologna Process: An ongoing process towards creating a

European Higher Education Area (EHEA)



History/Timeline


The EU over time


The EU over time


The EU over time


The EU over time


The EU over time




G-20

G-8

Congress of Vienna (which sat from November 1814 to June 1815)


CanadaFranceGermanyItalyJapanRussiaUnited KingdomUnited States

European Union

ArgentinaAustraliaBrazilCanadaChinaFranceGermanyIndiaIndonesiaItalyJapanMexicoRussiaSaudi ArabiaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States

European Union

A Moment of Humor...


What is it?

Section A: The Bachelor-Master Structure Section B: The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) Section C: The Diploma Supplement Section D: National Qualifications Frameworks Section E: Mobility and Portability of Student Support


“ This report clearly shows that we are on track to achieve the central objective of creating the European Higher Education Area by 2010. Greater compatibility of the different national European education degree structures has been achieved through significant reforms, and now the challenge is to work on quality, namely the content and profile of qualifications to ensure that they are meaningful and relevant within and beyond national boundaries. The main Bologna tools – ECTS, Diploma Supplement, and National Qualifications Frameworks – that the European Commission is proud to have helped to develop – are also now becoming well established features of the European higher education landscape. Nevertheless the message is also that we have progress to make in using these tools well, and that we will have to step up our efforts considerably if we are to ensure more widespread mobility in the European Higher Education Area.”

Ján Figel’ Commissioner responsible for Education, Training, Culture and Youth


http://www.eurydice.org


http://www.eurydice.org/

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/diagrams/108EN.pdf




What’s it about, fundamentally? “Ron’s

interpretation/opinion”

Structure Nomenclature (US System - two cycles)

Unification Europe!

Quality Assurance Consistency

Accounting System of Credits (ECTS System)

Mobility Europe!! “Necessary European Dimensions in Higher Education...”

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Analyzing the Impact on US Higher Education


Growing US Conversation:Cliff Adelman

“The Bologna Club”

Responses, critiques, concerns,Paul Gaston

Carol Geary Schneider

Thomas Friedman

Louis Menand

Arne Duncan

Fall 2008 Liberal Education

Carol Geary Schneider - “The Bologna Process does not promise European students an integrative, cross-disciplinary liberal education

that is clearly tied to the responsibilities of democratic and global citizenship.”

Adelman... Positive Points from the “Bologna Club” for US Higher Education

Developing detailed and public degree qualification frameworks for state higher education systems and in students' major fields for all institutions;

Revising the reference points and terms of the US credit system; Introducing a new class of intermediate credentials;

Expanding dual-admissions "alliances" between community colleges and four-

year institutions;

Developing and expanding "bridge" access programs between stages of higher education;

Refining the US definition and treatment of part-time students; and Developing a distinctive version of a diploma supplement that summarises individual student achievement.


Quiz time


Quiz time



IEHHEIntegrating Engineering and Humanities in Higher Education

Bologna Process - A Case Studyhttp://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/fb/mb/tvt/iehhe/iehhe.html

Conference held at the Technical University Darmstadt (TU-D) March, 2008

http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/fb/mb/tvt/iehhe/iehhe.html

IEHHE Conference

TU-D’s ongoing tradition:

1947 ConferenceEngineering & Social Responsibility


IEHHE Conference

Participants

TU-D and TU-9 administrators and faculty

Industry representatives - Siemens, VW, etc.

USA - The College of New Jersey, Columbia College of Chicago, James Madison University, Michigan Tech, University of North

Carolina at Asheville, Virginia Tech, Worcester Tech, North Carolina State University, Georgia Tech


Dr. Frank Stefan Becker - Siemens


IEHHE Conference

TU-9 Program GoalsAdapting Institutional autonomy and traditions to Bologna

standardsGraduate thoroughly trained and resourceful citizens of the world

US Program GoalsInnovative, integrative, experiential, international

Holistic Professionalism - General Education integration


Bologna Process: Stocktaking Report 2009


Bologna Process: Stocktaking Report 2009

Are the goals for 2010 actually being achieved?

Overall picture not as green as anticipated in 2007...

The shared vision of EHEA: support, adjustment, resistance

Agreement, but uneven, albeit “tuning”


Impediments - Major Problem Areas

National, societal, campus

Tracking/reporting - Dipl. Supplement, Outcomes

assessment

Coordinating internal with international systems

Full participation - students at 3 levels - adult

learners

National Synergizing - Governmental, educational,

social

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Final Overview

The Report’s General Recommendations

PersistCooperate

ShareSystematizeTake Stock


Other Places...



Zayed University, U.A.E.


Zayed


Aga Kahn Humanities ProjectCentral Asia

ECOLASEuropean Colleges of Liberal Arts and

Sciences

Establish LASC colleges throughout EuropeConstruct a LASC certificate

Put liberal arts on accreditation committees throughout EU member countries

funding:EU (Lifelong Learning) and

Erasmus (Modernization of HIgher Education)

March 2010 - Seminar European leaders and academics invited to share best practices and ideas


Webster University

Global Citizenship ThemeLEAP Essential Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world

• Intellectual and practical skills• Understanding of personal and social responsibility

• Abilities to integrate and apply what is learned

Utilizing high impact educational practices


Conclusion:What is missing?


What it does not consider

Pedagogy Humanities/General Education

Advising/support for students in finding pathways

Student Development theoryStudent Life 24/7

Learning Communities and other successful models

Physical Place issues - What a Campus means...

Issues of Citizenship and how that is part of an undergraduate education

LEAP!Observations on the Bologna Agreement:

Analyzing the Impact on US Higher Education

Pedagogy Google it, make my day.

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Pedagogy “Google it, make my

day.”


Humanities One of the only references...

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Humanities Make my day, again...


Humanities A Manifesto?

Where has all the love gone???


Questions...?



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