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Driving Institutional Standards for Achieving
Global Relevance

• Peter Okebukola, OFR
• Executive Advance, 2009/2010 Academic Session

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Our Ebenezer

• Thank you Jesus for the CU journey so far

Oh for a thousand tongues to sing our great
Redeemers praise
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Round the paper in 35 minutes

• highlight the standards expected of CU to attain
  world-class status
• assess how near/far is CU from these standards
• summarise the major global rankings of
  universities that will measure CUs global
  standing
• conclude that in the shortest possible time, CU
  will be one of the leading universities in the
  world

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The Future We Envision Thinking Solution,
Impacting Generations
Only those who think the unthinkable can ever
dare the impossible
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Vision

• To be a leading World-Class Christian Mission
  University, committed to raising a new generation
  of leaders in all fields of Human endeavour

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Mission

• To create knowledge and restore the dignity of
  the black man via a Human Development Total Man
  Concept driven curriculum employing innovative,
  leading-edge teaching and learning methods,
  research and professional services that promote
  integrated, life applicable , life-transforming
  education, relevant to the context of Science,
  Technology and Human Capacity Building

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Goal of Covenant University

• Our mission is to promote the relevance of
  University education to the society.
• It is to process the raw brains of our students
  into resourceful and productive entities.
• Our mission is to promote the mental dignity of
  the human race particularly the Africans who have
  largely lost their intellectual bravery to
  colonial entanglements.

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CU
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Our Leaders
CU
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How long to the top?
CU
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2002
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I see a world class university emerge at a record
speed dedicated to finding solutions to real life
problems.
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When there is a will, there is ALWAYS way

• Prime Minister of India announced establishment
  of 14 world-class universities in the five-year
  plan 2007-2012.
• In 2007 Pakistan announced its ambitious US4.3
  billion project to create nine world-class
  engineering universities in collaboration with
  European universities, with 50 of its academics
  and administrators coming from Europe.
• 2009 King Abdullah University of Science and
  Technology in Saudi Arabia

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For CU, there is a WILL and a DIVINE STAMP

• Celebrate the 15th Anniversary being the No.1 in
  Nigeria
• Celebrate the 30th Anniversary being among the
  TOP 10 in the world

Remember, with God, ALL things are possible
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A Look Back What progress in 7 years?

• Full accreditation in academic programmes
• Boast the most beautiful campus
• Disciplined, God-fearing, and well-trained
  students
• Employers yearn for CU graduates
• Graduates of CU excel in postgraduate education
  in Nigeria and overseas
• Good quality staff
• ..

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Covenant University in the Eyes of the Masses
Who do people say you are?

• Best university in Nigeria in the training of
  disciplined graduates
• Excellent nursery for training God-fearing
  leaders
• Parents love CU potential students fret (the
  discipline)
• One or two semester of stay at CU and new
  students love it here
• NYSC says students are well-mannered, obey rules
  and well-skilled
• Lecture notes not as rich as UNILAG, UI
• Internet service does not match the boast
• CU ladies too much into attending parties

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The Road Ahead

• To becoming World-Class and Globally relevant

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But, what is World Class?

• Definition is subjective and contextual
• Given diversity of global education systems
• Different societal needs and priorities

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The Notion

• Self-declared
• Externally validated

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2009
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Defining Elements

• High concentration of talented staff and students
• Abundant resources to offer a rich learning
  environment and to conduct advanced research
• Favourable governance features that encourage
  strategic vision, innovation, and flexibility and
  that enable institutions to make decisions and to
  manage resources without being encumbered by
  bureaucracy
• Strong commitment to global best practices
  adapted to the local context

• Sustained financial support, with an appropriate
  mix of accountability and autonomy
• Managerial reforms and the introduction of
  effective administration
• Truly meritocratic hiring and promotion policies
  for the academic profession, and similarly
  rigorous and honest recruitment, selection, and
  instruction of students

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National and Global Relevance is.

• Producing graduates that meet human resource
  needs of Nigeria and the world
• Producing graduates that can drive Nigerias
  7-point Agenda and Vision 20-2020

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Standards for Global Relevancefor department
self-study during the 2009/2010 session
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Standards for Global Relevance..1

• Has an international reputation for its research
• Has an international reputation for its teaching
• Has a number of research stars and world leaders
  in their fields
• Generates innovative ideas and produces basic
  and applied research in abundance
• Produces groundbreaking research output
  recognized by peers and prizes (for example,
  Nobel Prize winners)

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Standards for Global Relevance..2

• Attracts the most able students and produces the
  best graduates
• Can attract and retain the best staff
• Can recruit staff and students from an
  international market
• Attracts a high proportion of postgraduate
  students
• Attracts a high proportion of students from
  overseas

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Standards for Global Relevance..3

• Has a very sound financial base
• Receives large endowment capital and income
• Has diversified sources of income
• Provides a high-quality and supportive research
  and educational environment for both its staff
  and its students (for example, high-quality
  buildings and facilities/high-quality campus)

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Standards for Global Relevance..3

• Has a first-class management team with strategic
  vision and implementation plans
• Produces graduates who end up in positions of
  influence and/or power (that is, movers and
  shakers such as prime ministers and presidents)
• Continually benchmarks with top universities and
  departments worldwide and
• Has the confidence to set its own agenda.

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Standards for Global Relevance- STUDENTS

• Select only the best
•   260 UME Score
• Top 10 in Post-UME include a test on creativity
• A in 5 SSCE subjects
• Pay fee for full cost recovery (e.g. N700,000 for
  Engineering)

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Standards for Global Relevance- DIVERSITY

• A holistic learning/research/teaching
  environment where diverse fields of knowledge are
  studied, respected and revered
• - world class university must be inclusive it
  covers all kinds of fields including not only
  traditional basic disciplines, but also new
  inter-disciplines, or those obsolete disciplines
  without much practical value
• - If a university wishes to attain world-class
  status, its staff and students must understand
  the divergent cultures that inhabit the world.
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Standards for Global Relevance-
INTERNATIONALISATION

• World-class universities recruit first rate
  professors and enrol students from all over the
  world
• Internationalisation of the curricula
• Partnerships with universities, colleges and
  businesses all over the world
• World-class also means having a very full range
  of programmes that help educate all our students
  as widely as possible

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World University Ranking

• Relatively recent (began 2002)
• Times Higher Education-QS Ranking
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Webometrics Ranking
• Professional Ranking of World Universities
• Newsweek Ranking
• Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for
  World Universities

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Times Higher Education-QS World Ranking of
Universities

• Times Higher Education (THE) in association with
  Quacquarelli Symonds publishes annually since
  2002, a list of top 500 universities in the world.

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Indicators for THE-QS World Ranking of
Universities
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Academic Ranking of World Universities

• Began June 2003
• Compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong Universitys
  Institute of Higher Education
• Indicators
• Alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields
  Medals
• Highly Cited Researchers in twenty-one broad
  subject categories
• Articles published in Nature and Science,
  articles indexed in Science Citation
  Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation
  Index (SSCI)
• Academic performance with respect to the size of
  an institution

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Selection of Universities

• Any university that has any Nobel Laureates,
  Fields Medals, Highly Cited Researchers, or
  papers published in Nature or Science.
• Major universities of every country with
  significant amount of papers indexed by Thomson.
• Number of universities scanned gt2000
• Number of universities actually ranked gt1000
• Number of ranked universities on our web 500

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Ranking Criteria and Weights
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Definition of Indicator Alumni

• The total number of the alumni of an institution
  winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.
• Alumni are defined as those who obtain bachelor,
  Masters or doctoral degrees from the
  institution.
• Different weights are set according to the
  periods of obtaining degrees. The weight is 100
  for alumni of 1991-2000, 90 for alumni of
  1981-1990, 80 for alumni of 1971-1980, and so
  on.
• If a person obtains more than one degree from an
  institution, the institution is considered once
  only.

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Definition of Indicator Award

• The total number of the staff of an institution
  winning Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry,
  medicine and economics and Fields Medal in
  Mathematics.
• Staff is defined as those who work at an
  institution at the time of winning the prize.
• Different weights are set according to the
  periods of winning the prizes. The weight is
  100 for winners since 2001, 90 for winners in
  1991-2000, 80 for winners in 1981-1990, 70 for
  winners in 1971-1980, and so on.
• If a winner is affiliated with more than one
  institution, each institution is assigned the
  reciprocal of the number of institutions.
• For Nobel prizes, if a prize is shared by more
  than one person, weights are set for winners
  according to their proportion of prize.

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Definition of Indicator HiCi

• The number of highly cited researchers in 21
  broad subject categories in life sciences,
  medicine, physical sciences, engineering and
  social sciences.
• The definition of categories and detailed
  procedures can be found at the website of
  Institute of Scientific Information.
• The total number of HiCi is about 5000, about
  4000 of which is university staff.

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Definition of Indicator NS

• The annual average number of articles published
  in Nature and Science in the past five years.
• To distinguish the order of author affiliation, a
  weight of 100 is assigned for corresponding
  author, 50 for first author (second author if
  the first author is the same as corresponding
  author), 25 for the next author, and 10 for
  other authors.
• Only publications of article type are considered.
  

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Definition of Indicator PUB

• Total number of articles indexed in Science
  Citation Index-expanded (SCIE) and Social Science
  Citation Index (SSCI) in the past year.
• A weight of 2 is assigned to articles indexed in
  SSCI to compensate the bias against humanities
  and social sciences.
• Only publications of article type are considered.
  

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Definition of Indicator PCP

• The sub-total scores of the above five indicators
  divided by the number of full-time equivalent
  academic staff.
• If the number of academic staff for institutions
  of a country cannot be obtained, the total scores
  of the above five indicators is used.
• For ranking 2005, the number of full-time
  equivalent academic staff is obtained for
  institutions in USA, China, Australia, Italy,
  Netherlands, Sweden, and Belgium etc.

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Main Sources of Data

• Nobel laureates
• http//www.nobel.se
• Fields Medals
• http//www.mathunion.org/medals/
• Highly-cited researchers
• http//www.isihighlycited.com
• Articles published in Nature and Science
• http//www.isiknowledge.com
• Articles indexed in SCIE and SSCI
• http//www.isiknowledge.com

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Results of ARWU

• http//www.arwu.org/
• Top 500 universities in the world
• Top 100 universities in North and Latin America
• Top 100 universities in Asia/Oceania
• Top 100 universities in Europe
• Statistics of top universities by region and
  country
• Percentage distribution of top universities by
  country as compared with the share of global
  population and GDP

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Webometrics Ranking
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Importance of Web Presence

• The new Academic global market
• Increased mobility of professors and alumni
• International competition for human resources and
  funding
• Getting prestige and visibility in the digital
  world
• Web is the best showcase for Universities
• All missions covered teachingresearchtransfer
• Intangibles and the web contents
• Freedom of teaching
• Self-organisation and maturity
• Access to resources
• Scholarly (formal and informal) communication
• Universal target groups
• Colleagues all over the world
• Prospective students worldwide
• Economic interested stakeholders
• General (huge) audiences
• Richer and diversified contents at cheaper costs

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Webometrics Ranking Model
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Metrics of the Web

• Contents size
• Correlated with the knowledge production
  capabilities of the institution
• number of potential authors (faculty members,
  staff, alumni)
• available (access to) resources
• internal and external policies
• Quality resources
• Difficult criteria
• authoritativeness of the scholars (university)
• peer review 2.0
• formats (file types), language (lingua franca)
• Visibility
• Hypertext links networks
• New motivations, many linkers (siters)
• Open versus Closed (international) impact
• Popularity
• Users, visits, behavior, evolution, referrers
• Methodological problems (global comparison no
  feasible)

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Methodology

• Normalization
• log (na1) N search engine (Google, Yahoo,
  Live, Exalead)
• Na ----------------------------- a web
  domain
• log (max(ni)1)
• Median method (Size)
• Sa ½ ((Ga Ya La Ea) max (Ga,Ya,La,Ea)
  - min (Ga,Ya,La,Ea))
• Rich files
• Ra PDFa DOCa PPTa Psa
• Ranking
• Sa -gt Ra(S)
• Ra -gt Ra(R) Va -gt Ra(V) 11 WR
  (50V) (20S15R15Sc)
• Sca -gt Ra(Sc)

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Expected Results

• North America
• MIT (1st region world), Stanford University
  (2nd), Harvard University (3rd)
• University of Toronto (25th world)
• Europe
• Cambridge (1st region), Oxford (2nd), ETH Zurich
  (3rd)
• Asia
• Tokyo (61th world), National Taiwan (73th) and
  Beijing (133th) universities
• Oceania
• Australian National University (47th)
• Latin America
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (59th
  world)
• Universidade de Sao Paulo (114th world)
• Africa
• University of Cape Town (349th world)

WR (January 2008)
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Unexpected Results

• Up
• Pennsylvania State University (4th world)
• CiteSeer, index of computer and information
  science papers
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (7th world)
• Internet Scout Project
• Linkoping University (14th Europe, 79th world)
  
• Lysator, the Academic Computer Society
• Universitat Trier (50th Europe, 171th world)
• DBLP, Computer Science Bibliography
• Down
• Cornell University (10th world)
• Arxiv (www.arxiv.org, not under cornell.edu)
• California Institute of Technology (31th world)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl.nasa.gov, not
  under caltech.edu)
• Princeton University (36th world)
• Yale University (41st world)
• Johns Hopkins University (42nd world)
• School of Medicine (hopkinsmedicine.org, not
  under jhu.edu)

WR (January 2008)
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Comparative Analysis (I)
(2007)
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Comparative Analysis (II)
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(2007)
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Comparative Analysis (III)
(2007)
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Universities by Country
Top 200 universities in the Webometrics Ranking
(July 2007)
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Academic Digital Divide
WR (January 2008)
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Regional distribution
Number of universities by region in the
Webometrics Ranking (July 2007)
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Professional Ranking of World Universities

• Started in 2007 by École nationale supérieure des
  mines de Paris
• based on a single indicator- the number of alumni
  holding a post of chief executive officer or
  equivalent in one of the 500 leading
  international companies as reported in Fortune
  Global 500.

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Newsweek Ranking

• Started August 2006 by Newsweek, the American
  weekly newsmagazine
• Called the Top 100 Global Universities
• combined selected indicators from two rankings
  (Academic Ranking of World Universities by
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University and The Times
  Higher Education), with the additional criterion
  of library holdings (number of volumes).

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Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for
World Universities 

• Began in 2007
• Produced by the Higher Education Evaluation and
  Accreditation Council of Taiwan
• Employs bibliometric methods to analyse and rank
  the scientific papers of the top 500 universities
  in the world.

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Non-Global (Regional and National) Ranking

• Canada
• India
• Ireland
• UK
• US
• Nigeria

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World Rankings
Webometrics Rank First published in 2004. From
2006, two editions (January and July) Higher
education Institutions (mostly universities)
15,000 (Jan08) RD related institutions (mostly
research centers) 4,800 (Jan08)
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Where do we go from here?

• Each Department to carry out gap analysis- where
  we are now relative to where we want to be in
  5-years time, benchmarked with the best
  institution in the world in the programme offered
  by the Department
• As staff, we should individually strive to do
  better this session, than the last.
• Think globally, act locally

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Conclusion

• We highlighted the standards expected of CU to
  attain world-class status
• We summarised the major global rankings of
  universities
• We conclude that in the shortest possible time,
  CU will be one of the leading universities in the
  world

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Just before we go

• I see an army of highly disciplined, highly
  resourceful and highly impactful faculty and
  students.
• I see the rise of intellectual giants of global
  reckoning.
• This is our aspirations, this is dream and all of
  these are our desires.
• Whatever you cannot imagine, you cannot make
  happen
• Whatever is too big for your mind, is too big
  for your hand
• If you cannot think it, you cannot take it
• Whatever you dont desire, you dont deserve
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• Whatever you dont expect, you cannot experience

Yesterday 30/09/09
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In Jesus Mighty Name.
At the next Executive Advance Seminar, we shall
celebrate having moved several notches towards
the goal of being a world-class university
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Thank you and best wishes for the 2009/2010
sessionMay God make it a glorious year for us
all.