CEU is pioneering and researching many innovative approaches to higher education (concepts, history, policy and management, the role of Universities in the 21st century) with specific relevance to Central and Eastern Europe and beyond
I am the Project Officer of the Office of the Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs. The office as one of the core units of CEU's central administration has the privilege and the responsibility to take the leading role in liaisoning with European and Hungarian institutions, organisations including the Hungarian Ministry of Education, national authorities such as the Accreditation Board and respective educational authorities.
This course focuses on the development of innovation and management of higher education. Grounded in the history of the modern university (since 1800), and using contemporary and case study evidence, it places reform efforts in the context of managing universities amidst conflicting priorities and competing stakeholders. It examines how and why innovations emerge, the ways they are (and are not) implemented, and the role of traditional academic governance vs. management in this process. It is particularly concerned with the evolving role of students, services to students, and growing attention to ‘the student experience’—looking at efforts to expand access to more—and more diverse—students, improving learning environments, and developing strategies for implementing and managing student-oriented reforms.
Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University. He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy. A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society. He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost. In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.
