Overview
The Hart House Debates & Dialogues Committee presents this online panel, bringing together both Canadian and American perspectives to discuss the future of higher education – a future complicated both by long-term trends like rising tuition, evolving employer expectations and widening socioeconomic disparities, as well as short-term disruptions catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our moderator, Xine Yao, co-host of the podcast, PhDivas, and Lecturer at University College London, will lead our accomplished panelists through three overarching themes within this dialogue: Accessibility vs Exclusivity, Globalization vs Localization, and The Value of a University Degree.
After the panel, please join us for a collaborative discussion surrounding issues brought up by the panelists in which we will brainstorm potential improvements for the future of higher education.
This event is part of World Access to Higher Education Day 2020.
Schedule
- 12:05 – 12:15 Welcome & Opening remarks
- 12:15 – 12:35 Panelist remarks
- 12:35 – 1:10 Moderated discussion
- 1:10 – 1:25 Audience Q & A
- 1:25 – 1:30 Closing remarks
- 1:30 – 2:00 Optional public policy brainstorm
Guest Speakers
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ModeratorDr. Xine Yao
Lecturer, Author, Podcast Co-Host
Dr. Christine “Xine” Yao (name is pronounced like “wine” with an X) is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London and an alumnae of Trinity College, University of Toronto 0T7. Xine’s first book Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her scholarly essays have appeared in J19, Occasion, and American Quarterly, the last of which was a finalist for the Constance M. Rourke Prize for best essay. Xine is the co-host of PhDivas, a podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide, and a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Her honours include the ASA Yasuo Sakakibara Essay Prize and her research has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker.
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SpeakerDr. Jerome Lucido a.k.a. Jerry
Professor of Research, Executive Director, Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education
Dr. Jerome (Jerry) Lucido is Professor of Research and Executive Director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Prior to joining the faculty, he served as Vice Provost for Enrollment Policy and Management at USC, at UNC-Chapel Hill and as Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Services and Academic Support at the University of Arizona. He is the designer and co-founder of the first master’s program in enrollment policy and management at a research university. The author of numerous book chapters and articles, he is widely called upon to speak on admission and enrollment issues in higher education. As a faculty member and administrator, he has played a leading national role in initiatives to improve access for low-income and underrepresented students and to research, design, and execute effective and principled college admission and enrollment management practices.
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SpeakerDr. Jacqueline Ottmann a.k.a. Paquachan
Professor and Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Jacqueline (Paquachan) Ottmann is Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) from Fishing Lake First Nations. She is a former elementary and high school teacher and principal. Ottmann was at the University of Calgary for 13 years, and while there she was Coordinator of the First Nations, Métis, Inuit undergraduate teacher education program, and Director of Indigenous Education Initiatives within the Werklund School of Education. She also co-chaired the Werklund School of Education Indigenous Strategy and, alongside the Provost, the university-wide Indigenous Strategy. As of October 1, 2017, Jacqueline became Professor and the inaugural Vice-Provost Indigenous Engagement at the University of Saskatchewan. Ottmann has been recognized as an international researcher, advocate, and change-maker whose purpose is to transform practices inclusive of Indigenous leadership, methodologies and pedagogies. Jacqueline is driven to create schools and communities that foster a deeper sense of belonging and appreciation for Indigenous peoples – their histories, stories, ways of knowing and being.
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SpeakerProf. Meg Jay
Clinical Psychologist, an Associate Professor of Human Development, University of Virginia
Meg Jay, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, and an Associate Professor of Human Development at the University of Virginia, who specializes in adult development and in twentysomethings in particular. She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, and in gender studies, from the University of California, Berkeley. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and on NPR and BBC. Her TED talk “Why 30 Is Not the New 20” is among the most watched of all time.
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SpeakerLivia Castellanos
Executive Lead, International Education and Jurisdictional Initiatives, Ministry of Advanced Education
With over twenty years of experience in the field of International Education, Livia E. Castellanos is the Executive Lead of the International Education and Jurisdictional Initiatives Branch with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Advanced Education. Livia has taken on this new role, while on a secondment from the University of Regina, where she served as the Associate Vice-President (International).
During the last decade, Ms. Castellanos has been responsible for leading, managing and spearheading all international initiatives at the University of Regina.Ms. Castellanos has also served as the Executive Secretariat for Canada in the Inter-American Organization of Higher Education (IOHE), a board member and Chair of the Membership Relations Committee for the Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE), and a member of various provincial international education boards. She has consulted for several universities and higher education organizations across North America and written articles published by the European International Association of Education. Through her work and innovation, Ms. Castellanos has been recognized through several prestigious awards for her contribution to the field.