Why UNESCO Chair in Governance and Management of Higher Education at the University of Zagreb

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Why UNESCO Chair in Governance and Management of
Higher Education at the University of Zagreb?

• UNESCO Chair Opening Ceremony
• Vlasta Vizek Vidovic

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Main shifts in HED institutions functioning
FROM
TOWARD

• Corporation model
• Institutional autonomy
• Social accountability
• Public service outreach

• Collegium model
• Fragmented decision making
• State dependence
• Academic freedom

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Main shifts in HED institutions functioning (cont)
FROM
TOWARD

• Budget funding
• Disciplinary isolation
• Honorary management
• National boundaries

• Enterpreneurship
• Functional integration
• Professional management
• International networking

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Project goals

• To enhance institutional research as basis for
  strategic planning and organizational decision
  making
• To secure foreign expert advice and training
  related to strategic management
• To promote concepts of quality culture and
  quality assurance
• To support the professionalization of M G by
  introducing staff development programs
• To facilitate international networking through
  regional and EU projects in HED

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Launching the Project

• May 2002 - project proposal submitted to the
  UNESCO
• October 2002 - project approved by UNESCO CEPES
• February 2003 - agreement signed between UNESCO
  and University of Zagreb
• July 2003 - project approved by University of
  Zagreb Senate

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The First Six Months

• Securing premises and e equipment
• Starting referal documentation center and library
  
• Creation of UNESCO Chair web site
• Organizing workshops in Zagreb and Dubrovnik
• The role of the Office of External Affairs at
  UGA, Athens, Georgia
• Enrolment, programs and degrees at MSEM,
  Northridge, California
• Internalization in higher education, NUFFIC,
  Netherlands

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The First Six Months (cont)

• Co-publishing Academic newsletter of
  international cooperation
• Cooperating with TEMPUS QUASYS JEP-project at
  University of Zagreb
• Visiting kindred Chairs in Barcelona, Spain and
  Cluj, Romania
• Preparing the Croatian version of the materials
  of UNESCO-CEPES program on Management and
  Governance in HED

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UNESCO-CEPES Dokumenti o visokom obrazovanju

• Program regionalnog sveucilinog umreavanja u
• podrucju upravljanja visokim obrazovanjem
• u jugoistocnoj Europi

• Strategic Management, Governance and Policy
  Making
• Financial Management and Institutional
  Relationships with Civil Society and Local
  Economy
• Quality Assurance and Development of Study
  Programmes

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Highlights of the Next Season

• Teleconference on Bologna process (CHIPS, U of
  Twente)
• Application for Tempus Complementary Measures
  project (Organizational
  model of the Center for Staff and Faculty
  Development)
• Application for the Erasmus-World Joint Masters
  project Management in Higher Education
• Workshops in Zagreb and Dubrovnik
• - International classroom (NUFFIC, Netherlands)
• - Change management in HED (UGA, USA
  University of Linz, At)
• - E-learning and functional integration of city
  university (CARNET, Cro)

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Long Term Outcomes

• Institutional Research and Development Department
• Quality Assurance Centre
• Joint Masters program of Management in Higher
  Education
• Centre for Staff and Faculty Development
• Growth of the UNESCO Chair into the University
  Institute of Higher Education

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Final Thought

• Chance favours a prepared mind
• (Louis Pasteur)

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UNESCO Chair in Governance and Management of
Higher Education at University of Zagreb
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