WISCAPE programs promote timely dialogues among postsecondary education leaders, researchers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders with the goal of increasing their understanding of leadership and management issues, best practices, and current research. These programs encourage participants to share their differing viewpoints on the challenges facing postsecondary education, an important component in promoting effective postsecondary education leadership practices and policies. WISCAPE's various programs and series are described in greater detail below.
To learn about programs scheduled for the current semester, please visit the WISCAPE calendar.
WISCAPE conferences and forums combine a variety of formats, including public lectures, panels of stakeholder representatives, invitational presentations, guest lectures in graduate-level courses, and scholars-in-residence programs. Brown bag forums, held over the noon hour, are smaller, less formal gatherings in which postsecondary education researchers, practitioners, and policymakers share their current research and reflections with an audience from around campus and the Madison community.
Cultures and economies across the globe are rapidly becoming more intertwined, and universities worldwide are responding by evolving into global institutions. Today, major universities actively seek applicants from other countries while sending their own students abroad to prepare them for careers in an increasingly global society. University faculty conduct research with colleagues on separate continents. Administrators and government officials from different countries share best practices and policies for addressing issues in higher education.
As people continue to move across borders in greater numbers and new distance technologies develop, collaboration and interaction among universities around the world will only increase, thus creating a host of possibilities and obstacles for these institutions. Co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Division of International Studies, WISCAPE, and the Worldwide Universities Network, the Global Public University Series promotes discussion about the trends, challenges, and opportunities that impact public universities throughout the world and how these institutions can learn from and work with each other.
Organized by scholars at the University of Bristol (UK), the Ideas and Universities International Video Seminar Series aims to find a shared language and offer a forum to examine past and present models of internationalization in higher education. Linked by distance technology, a diverse group of scholars and university leaders from around the world explore key issues in higher education and globalization from current and historical perspectives.
This series is made available on the UW–Madison campus thanks to funding and support from the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol (UK), the Worldwide Universities Network, and WISCAPE in cooperation with the UW–Madison Department of Educational Policy Studies.
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