Higher Education Planning in Asia (HEPA) Conference 2014 ˇV Draft Program

Time Program Lead/Speaker Venueˇ@
MARCH 25 ˇ@ ˇ@ ˇ@
8:30-8:50 Welcome & Introduction Michael Fung (HKUST)/Cunqun Zhang (Peking U) Room 206, 2/F,
Guang Hua Building
8:50-9:00 Opening Address Dr. Yansong Li (Peking U)
9:00-9:50 Keynote presentation (Live link with SCUP)
Planning and Developing Higher Education Institutions in the East and West ˇV Opportunities and Challenges
Jeffrey Lehman (NYU-Shanghai)
9:50-10:40 Presentations
• Upgrading and Transformation: the Top Universitiesˇ¦ Strategic Planning and Organizational Guarantee
• University Planning: A View of Interaction
• Ling Xue (Peking U)

• Wei Qi (UST China)
10:40-11:05 Break
11:05-12:05 Presentations: Trends and Developments in Higher Education
1. Reform and Development of Higher Education in China (2000-2020)
2. Development Prospects of Leading Russian Universities: Global Agenda
3. Highlights of the Higher Education Reforms in Korea - Preparing for the University Education in an Advanced Nation
Moderator: Bruce White (U Canterbury)

• Zhenyuan Qu (China Assoc. of Higher Education)
• Sergey Ivanets (Far Eastern Federal U)
• Soonkeon Nam (Kyung Hee U)
12:05-13:45 Networking Lunch (Restaurant in Shao Yuan No.7 Building, Chai Tai Intˇ¦l Centre)
13:45-14:45 Panel discussion (part I)
1. Planning for Internationalization/ Off-shore Campus Development
• Making of an Internationalized School in ChinaˇV Challenges and Responses
• Developing a Branch Campus: The University of Nottingham Experience
Moderator: Guy Perring (i-graduate)


• Jingshen Wu (HKUST)
• Christopher Hill (U Nottingham Malaysia)/Tessa Payne (U Nottingham Ningbo)
• Jeffrey Lehman (NYU-Shanghai)
Tan Siu Lin Center
14:45-15:45 2. Rankings/Analytics in Higher Education
• The Role of Evidence in Strategy and Implementation: Deciding and Doing with Data in Universities
• Challenges in the Management of University Ranking: Vulnerability to Changes and Emergence of New Power
• Research Management and Planning in Asia ˇV Recent Trends and Case Studies
Moderator: Trevor Webb (HKUST)
• Kevin McConkey (U New South Wales)

• Danny Wong/Nor Aishah Binti Hamzah (U Malaya)
• Yimin Wang (Elsevier)
15:45-16:05 Break
16:05-17:20 Pecha Kucha: Managing Risks and Change
1. Governance and Ethics ˇV The SMU Journey
2. Resilience ˇV Business Continuity Planning
3. Managing Risks and Change in Working at an International Campus
4. Collaborations and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development
5. On Campus: The Impact of Technology on Learning Environments
• Edmund Chin/Sim Teow Hong (SMU)

• Bruce White (U Canterbury)
• Gethin Roberts (U Nottingham Ningbo)

• Jie Hyun Kim/Yoonil Auh (Kyung Hee Cyber U)
• Susan Lowance (KPF)
17:20-17:45 Move to cocktail venue
17:45-18:45

18:45-20:15
Cocktail

Networking Dinner
ˇ@ Zhongguanxinyuan No.1 Building
MARCH 26 ˇ@ ˇ@
8:00-8:15 Welcome & Recap Michael Fung (HKUST) Room 206, 2/F,
Guang Hua Building
8:15-9:15 Keynote Presentation (Live link with SCUP)
Current Trends in Higher Education: What We Know and What We Need to Know
John Pryor (Gallup Education)
9:15-10:25 Panel discussion (part II)
1. Integrated Planning and Budgeting
• Assessing Maturity of Institutional Planning across Asian Universities
• Strategic Planning in the University Context
• CW Diagram to Prioritize University Management Issues
• Translating Global Strategy into Effective Planning
Moderator: Bhupinder Singh (NUS)

• Martin Hanlon
  (U of Technology Sydney)
• Sriven Naidu (SMU)
• Euiho Suh (POSTECH)
• Bruce Carroll (RMIT)
10:25-10:55 Break/move venue
10:55-12:45 Interactive Sessions (5 groups)
• Institutional Planning
• Campus physical planning
• Measuring/analyzing performance
• Internationalization/Off-shore campus
• E-learning/MOOCs
Facilitators:
• Soonkeon Nam (Kyung Hee U)
• Susan Lowance (KPF)
• Trevor Webb (HKUST)
• Bruce White (U Canterbury)
• Hua Sun (Peking U)
Meeting rooms, Overseas Exchange Center
12:45-13:00 Conference wrap-up + Closing Remarks Michael Fung (HKUST)/Cunqun Zhang (Peking U) Yueguang hall, Overseas Exchange Center
13:00-14:30 Networking Lunch (Restaurant in Shao Yuan No.7 Building, Chai Tai Intˇ¦l Centre)
14:30-16:30 Campus Tour (PKU + Tsinghua U)