The chair of Higher Education focuses on academic work and organizational transformation in the context of changing institutional environment.
Drawing on the sociological theories the chair explores the issues of
20.01.2020 – It was an honour to welcome the Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and the Academic Director of the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship, Prof. Shaker A. Zahra from the University of Minnesota, in December 2019. He is one of the leading scholars in the field of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the recipient of the 2014 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. After an inspiring talk on digital technology and the disruption of global business ecosystems at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium, Prof. Zahra held a doctoral workshop on how to publish with impact in international reknown peer reviewed journals for the PhD students from the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University.
20.01.2020 – As an expert for the post-Sovjet higher education systems' transformation, Prof. Leišytė participated in the doctoral committee of Myroslava Hladchenko's thesis "Global education models in national contexts: The establishment of research universities in Ukraine" at the University of Twente. Congratulations to the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente with a new doctor!
15.01.2020 – Dear students, applications for seminars in the summer semester are coming up! You can find all information regarding the seminars of the Professorship of Higher Education on our teaching website.
We are looking forward to your applications!
15.01.2020 – From December 10-13, 2019, Sude Peksen participated in the annual conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in Newport, Wales, UK, where she presented a talk based on her PhD project "Information Sources and Access to German Computer Sciences Programmes: The Role of Gender, Age and Social Networks". The trip was financed by a stipend of the early career researchers' section (HoFoNa) of the German Association for Higher Education Research (GfHf).
08.01.2020 – On December 10, Maximilian Schulz successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "International business travel as a two-sided experience for highly qualified employees – The role of international work experience, cosmopolitanism, and high-involvement work systems".
Congratulations!
21.12.2019 – ...and the Professorship of Higher Education is out of office to celebrate the holidays until January 5, 2020. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
27.11.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Shaker A. Zahra (University of Minnesota, USA) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, Prof. Zahra will give a talk with the title "Digital technology and the disruption of global business ecosystems".
Time and place: December 11, 2019 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
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