November 2-5, 2011 / 2 au 5 novembre 2011 Dr. Daniel Guhr - 2011 CAGS Annual Conference / Congrès 2011, Vancouver, B.C
Prior to founding the Illuminate Consulting Group, Dr. Guhr served as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and as a Director of Business Development with SAP in Silicon Valley. He has been involved with numerous academic institutions, foundations, and grant giving bodies in the United States, Germany, the UK, and Australia. Dr. Guhr holds a D.Phil. in Comparative Higher Education and a M.Sc. in Educational Research Methodology from Oxford University, as well as a M.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University. He also trained at Bonn and Harvard Universities, the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Studies in Berlin. Avant de fonder le Illuminate Consulting Group, Monsieur Guhr travaille comme consultant pour le Boston Consulting Group et directeur du Business Development avec la compagnie SAP du Silicon Valley. Il s’est impliqué auprès de plusieurs institutions académiques, fondations et organismes subventionnaires aux États-Unis, au Royaume-Uni et en Australie. Monsieur Guhr détient un doctorat en éducation supérieure comparée et une maîtrise ès sciences en méthodologie de recherche éducative de l’université Oxford, ainsi qu’une maîtrise en sciences politiques de l’université Brandeis. Il a également reçu de la formation aux universités de Bonn et de Harvard, du Center for Studies in Higher Education à UC Berkeley et du Max-Planck-Institute for Human Studies à Berlin.
November 2-5, 2011 / 2 au 5 novembre 2011 Dr. Cal Stiller - KILLAM LECTURE - 2011 CAGS Annual Conference / Congrès 2011, Vancouver, B.C, Vancouver, B.C
DR. CAL STILLER obtained his medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1965, his F.R.C.P. (C) in 1970 and following post-graduate studies in London and Edmonton, returned to the University of Western Ontario and University Hospital to become a professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, and Director of Immunology at the John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario.
Dr. Stiller was Chief of Nephrology and Transplantation from 1972 to 1984, established the Multi-Organ Transplant Service in London and was chief from 1984 to 1996. He co-founded the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, MaRS Centre in Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and has been active in a number of charitable organizations. In April 2010 Dr. Stiller was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and in September 2010 was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In October 2010 he was named the 2010 recipient of the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award.

December 11-13, 2009 / 11 au 13 décembre 2009 Dean Louise Béliveau (University of Montreal), Ambassador David Mulroney and Dean Carolyn Watters (DalhousieUniversity) at the PhD Workshop in Beijing, China

December 15-19, 2009 / 15 au 19 décembre 2009 Canadian Universities India Tour 2009 (New Delhi and Bangaluru)

High Commissioner, Joseph Caron; Dean Carolyn Watters, (Dalhousie University) and Dr. P.P. Bhojvaid, (Vice Chancellor of TERI University).

One of the most striking developments within higher education circles over the past couple of years has been increased interest in encouraging greater interaction between Canada and India. Higher education issues featured in the recent trips by Stephen Harper and Dalton McGuinty to India, and will also be raised in the forthcoming trip by Jean Charest. India is clearly on the radar, though there is considerable uncertainty over the exact objectives as well as the mechanisms needed to bolster academic relations between Canadian and Indian universities. In part, this uncertainty stems from the rapidly shifting university landscape – the tremendous growth in India’s university sector, the rise to international prominence of many of its institutions, and the fact that Canada has been slow to respond when compared to many European, American and Australian universities. These are all factors that we need to consider. Indian institutions are eager to partner with Canadian universities but we most remember that we are not the only players, and that India cannot be seen simply as a recruiting ground. As Sheila Embleton, President of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, recently observed in University Affairs, ‘India is looking for partnerships, not aid.’ Nowhere is this potential for collaboration more promising than at the graduate and postdoctoral level as both our countries look to strengthen their research capacity. Indian universities are keen to increase graduate education, in part because of the huge demand for new faculty members as they expand the size and number of universities. And all graduate deans in Canada can attest to the challenges we face in recruiting students in the STEM areas.

Dean Douglas Peers, (York University); Dr. Sheila Embleton, (President of the Shastri Indio-Canadian Institute); Dean Wade Parkhouse, (Simon Fraser University); Dean Barbara Evans, (University of British Columbia); Ms. Pari Johnston, (AUCC); and Dean Carolyn Watters, (Dalhousie University). AUCC and Shastri, in association with Canada’s High Commission in New Delhi, organized a two day workshop in December to bring together graduate deans from Canada with some of our Indian counterparts. There is no Indian equivalent of CAGS, and very often there are no graduate deans per se in Indian Universities. Structural and definitional differences were among the challenges we identified and we discussed ways of making each other’s systems and practices more comprehensible to the other. For example, our Indian counterparts were not aware that many of our institutions were now accepting three-year degrees for admission into graduate school. We also discovered that what we often refer to as joint degrees are known as dual degrees in India, and vice versa. We also looked at opportunities in collaborative programming, student exchanges, membership on dissertation defences, and policies and provisions for research ethics and intellectual property. A joint working group, which includes Carolyn Watters and myself, was struck to follow up these discussions by identifying mechanisms and programs that will facilitate mobility, producing a statement of principles intended to inform future actions, developing checklists of best practices as well as other information tools that will ensure better communications between and amongst our partners, and finally to work with other groups to lobby for enhanced links with India. I will provide regular updates of our activities and will no doubt be coming back to you with requests for feedback and information. Douglas Peers

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• Killam Lectures