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Jonathan Baggaley

Jon Baggaley is a professor of educational technology at Canada’s open distance-education university, Athabasca University, in Alberta. He graduated in psychology at the University of Sheffield and has since taught at the University of Liverpool, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Concordia University in Montréal. He is the author or editor of several books and articles on the psychology of television, educational media, media production and evaluation, health promotion, and community development. As an educational media consultant, Dr Baggaley has advised governmental, non-governmental, and broadcasting organizations in 14 countries. Recent projects of his include an ongoing consultancy with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, involving the design and evaluation of national educational media campaigns; and assistance to the Government of Ukraine in reviving and updating its early traditions of media use in rural-community development. Dr Baggaley is also a professional actor and director in stage, radio, film, and television.

Sheryl Tatlock Bond (coeditor)

Sheryl Tatlock Bond earned her doctorate in higher education at Indiana University and has been working in the field as an educator for more than 25 years. First as the founding Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development at the University of Manitoba and more recently as associate professor of higher education at Queen’s University at Kingston, she has personally and academically focused on academic leadership, education, gender and development, and international educational policy. For nearly 20 years, Dr Bond has worked as a consultant to a wide range of non-governmental organizations, including the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Canadian International Development Agency, International Development Research Centre, Commonwealth Secretariat, World Bank, British Council, International Federation of University Women, Inter-American Association of Higher Education, and government ministries both in Canada and abroad. Her field work and research, carried out in collaboration with partners in a variety of cultural contexts, have taken her throughout Africa, India, Latin America, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka.

Fernand Caron

Fernand Caron is a consultant in the management of international projects, with such duties as providing support to institutions and the private sector in international development. Dr Caron obtained a doctoral degree in physical education from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He has been a professor and head of international cooperation at two universities in the Université du Québec network and has also been responsible for the International Cooperation Division of the head office of the Université du Québec. Dr Caron served as Deputy Director of the International Division of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in the late 1980s. He has written more than 70 monographs, reports, and scientific articles, including many on international cooperation and development. Dr Caron is now President of EFC International Inc. in Montréal.

Howard C. Clark

Born in New Zealand, Howard Clark earned his PhD from the University of Auckland. He has also been awarded both PhD and ScD degrees from Cambridge University. Dr Clark has been a chemistry professor at the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario. He served in senior positions at Western and then the University of Guelph, where he was appointed the Academic Vice

President (1976–86). He oversaw the university’s international endeavours and helped establish a university-based corporation to carry out international development projects on a contractual basis. Dr Clark was President of Dalhousie University from 1986 until his retirement in 1995. During that time, he reestablished the Lester Pearson Institute, strengthening its international mandate, and encouraged debate on the need for the university to internationalize. He was involved in, or visited, most of Dalhousie’s projects. He also encouraged the international marketing of the university’s faculties of dentistry and medicine. Dr Clark is President Emeritus of Dalhousie University.

Martine Foisy

Martine Foisy is the Assistant to the NSERC/Alcan Chair for Women in Sciences and Engineering in Quebec. She is also pursuing her PhD in history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her thesis is on the establishment of structures to support research at Quebec universities.

Yves Gingras

Yves Gingras is a professor of the history and sociology of science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He obtained his PhD in history and the sociopolitics of science at the Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. An author of many publications, including more than 40 articles, Dr Gingras focuses on the history and evaluation of university research, science policy, and the history and sociology of science. He has been a consultant to several organizations and government ministries, is Editor-in-Chief of Scientia Canadensis, and is a member of the scientific committees of the European magazines Didaskalia, Culture technique, and Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Dr Gingras and Benoît Godin are cofounders of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies and members of the Centre inter-universitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (interuniversity centre for science and technology research).

Benoît Godin

Benoît Godin is a professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (national institute for scientific research) in Montréal, where he specializes in scientific policy and evaluation of science. Dr Godin earned his PhD at Sussex University. He has published several articles, including those in Research Policy and Social Studies of Science, and has recently published a book on scientific culture.

Dr Godin is also an active member of the Centre inter-universitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (interuniversity centre for science and technology research). Along with Yves Gingras, he is a cofounder of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies.

Jane Knight

Jane Knight is head of International Affairs in the Office of the President at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Dr Knight was the Director of the China Partnership Program at Ryerson and led a university-wide task force to develop an internationalization strategy. Earlier work with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris and a development organization in India helped her to bring policy and practical experience to the study of international education. On the research front, she is currently involved with an international project of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education on the quality assurance of internationalization and a comparative study of internationalization strategies. Dr Knight has conducted several national studies on the status and issues of internationalization in Canada.

Jean-Pierre Lemasson (coeditor)

Jean-Pierre Lemasson began working at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1976, first in the Bureau de recherche institutionnelle (institutional research bureau), then as Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. In 1988, Mr Lemasson established the university’s International Cooperation Office, and he remains its Director. In this position, he participates in the work of several university organizations, such as Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities (Conférence des recteurs et principaux des universités du Québec), Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and Montréal International. Mr Lemasson holds a master’s degree in psychosociology from the Sorbonne and did his doctoral studies in the history and policy of science at the Université de Montréal. In 1995/96, he took a sabbatical and worked at the International Development Research Centre’s Montevideo office, where he studied the place of university research in higher education systems in Latin America. Various studies resulted in a joint publication produced by the International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Mr Lemasson is currently conducting comparative research on the higher education systems in the Americas.

James Shute

James Shute is Director of the Centre for International Programs and professor of rural extension studies at the University of Guelph. His undergraduate and postgraduate degrees were earned at Queen’s University at Kingston and Michigan State University. Dr Shute has been a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne, Lincoln University, and the University of Bath. He has been an adviser or consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency, International Development Research Centre, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Canadian nongovernmental organizations, and recently the Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service. He has studied and worked in many countries, including Australia, Barbados, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad, several European countries, and those of the Southern African Development Community. Dr Shute is author or editor of more than 100 publications in applied communication, rural extension, human-resource development, evaluation, and the internationalization of higher education.

Jacques Tousignant

Jacques Tousignant is a consultant in international cooperation and university affairs, working primarily since 1995 for the Vice President (Academic and Research) at the head office of the Université du Québec. Earlier experience includes consulting for the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education and the International Cooperation Bureau of the head office of the Université du Québec and serving as the latter’s Director of Planning and Institutional Research. Mr Tousignant holds two master’s degrees, one in arts and the other in theology, obtained in Paris and Montréal. He has taught in Brazil, Quebec, and Manitoba. He took part in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s mission to Rwanda in 1997. Mr Tousignant is a member of the University Teaching and Research Commission of the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation in Quebec and is on the board of Collège François-Xavier-Garneau.

Jacquelyn Thayer Scott

Jacquelyn Thayer Scott is President and Vice-Chancellor of University College of Cape Breton, in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Before assuming her current post in 1993, Dr Scott served as Director of the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. She has also been on the faculty at the University of Manitoba, has operated her own

public-relations and management consulting firm, and has worked as a journalist for the Canadian Press and Colombian Newspapers. Dr Scott serves on a number of governing boards and advisory committees, including the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Science and Technology, Management Consortium on Environmental Technologies for the Province of Nova Scotia (Vice Chair), and the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education, Ltd. Dr Scott has been awarded a number of professional honours in her field and is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles and books on voluntary-organization management and policy and higher education policy.

Catherine Vertesi

Catherine Vertesi joined the University of British Columbia in 1980 as a lecturer in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration. In her role as Program Director and, later, Assistant Dean, first for Undergraduate Studies and then for the MBA program, she initiated student-mobility programs through exchanges, study abroad, and summer field schools overseas, which have benefited a significant number of students. Ms Vertesi has carried out several campus-wide initiatives, including the establishment of an adult-learner centre, curriculum revision in English as a second language for degree students, and student recruitment. She served on the British Columbia government advisory committee on the future of Royal Roads Military College, is the cochair of the Canada Special Interest Group for the International Association for Foreign Student Affairs, and serves on the Board of the Canadian Bureau for International Education. Ms Vertesi is the Director of External Relations for Continuing Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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