Speakers:

- Maria Yudkevich, Research Fellow, CIHE

- Phil Altbach, Professor Emeritus & Founding Director, CIHE

- Jamil Salmi, Research Fellow,  CIHE

Academic excellence initiatives (AEIs)—special government-sponsored programs to improve research universities—have provided billions of dollars to top universities and represent perhaps the most significant effort in the past half-century to jump-start academic research. Academic Star Wars analyzes AEIs in nine European and Asian countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia, offering insights into the successes and problems of these initiatives, as well as into the broader system of higher education itself. 

In this webinar, the three editors will share some of the main findings of the book and engage participants in a discussion of some of the implications.

To register, please follow the link: https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuquqD8pHtwQR561z7tifoB-sgmC2PPI#/registration