Yazar: Ogny

Association for Higher Education Studies (AHES) was founded in October 2015. AHES aims to fulfill a variety of roles within higher education field, so the aims of AHES include but not limited to conducting scholarly research at both national and international level, providing an alternative mechanism for sharing knowledge about similar interests, providing an alternative way for collecting and disseminating information, and sharing and discussing emerging practices, trends, research findings, and theoretical perspectives in academic settings such as conferences, congresses, panels, symposiums, seminars, and workshops. The board members and the other members in the association work in the field of higher education as academicians and/or administrators.

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University’s remarkable global appeal continues to grow with 13 faculties, 4 institutes, 8 colleges, 12 vocational high schools, 26 research and application centers and a Research Hospital. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University is an international university with the values of academic freedom, dynamism, transparency, flexibility and innovation. Our main objective is to increase our impact from a local to a global level. In order to achieve this, the COMU is increasing its academic and social activities by hosting national and international congresses, trying to meet international academic standards and developing high quality international strategic partnerships.

COMU Website: https://www.comu.edu.tr/

COMU Magazine: http://dergi.comu.edu.tr/dosyalar/Dergi/10-sayi.pdf

COMU Introductory Video:

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Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Anafartalar Campus, School of Education

Re-envisioning students in higher education: Needs, challenges and opportunities

Higher education has been widely influenced by three fundamental shifts. First, higher demand for access to education due to the changing financial, governmental and societal needs has brought expansion policies all around the world. This has given rise to massification of higher education at both national and international levels. Second, information technologies have been pushing the change in the structure of teaching and learning processes by bringing new technologies and delivery methods into education. Third, mobility trends have diversified the populations within societies including organizations and higher education institutions.

All these above-mentioned developments have led to a more diverse student body in higher education with a wide variety of backgrounds, needs and expectations. In this rapidly changing environment, higher education institutions are expected to respond timely and meaningfully to the needs of the student population. Thus, policy makers and leaders of higher education need to create mechanisms that would allow them to embrace the current student body through an analysis of the opportunities and the differentiated challenges. To this end, two main questions will be explored extensively to better understand the student population and develop ways in which higher education institutions engage this new community of learners into high quality educational experiences

1. What are the changes in student population?
2. How does higher education respond to the constantly changing student community?

Understanding the profile of higher education students and their needs together with the responses of higher education institutions towards this population necessitates the examination of several issues. In this regard, the 4^th International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC 2019) targets to discuss the topics which must to be considered on the basis of the diverse characteristics of students and their expectations, and the opportunities and challenges they bring to the context of higher education.

Significance of the conference

Students have become one of the major foci of higher education since the demand for higher education has an increasing pattern in today’s world. In addition, we are living in a century where educational institutions are being scrutinized in terms of meeting the needs of the social, cultural and economic circles. As such, higher education institutions are going through change, re-structuring or transformation processes. While doing this, it is crucial to understand who the students are and what they experience during this change process.

Students, as the leaders of next generations, take place at the core of universities; they are unique in several ways, they have various aspirations and hopes. In this context, higher education can play a vital role in contributing to their psychological, social, cultural and academic development. To achieve this, higher education institutions need to examine, explore and appreciate the student population together with their needs and demands.

IHEC 2019 aims to create a platform to share ideas and research related to changing student body in higher education; its influence on a variety of processes including teaching and learning, organizational culture and climate, finance, leadership, and governance among several others; and the ways in which higher education institutions can respond to these emerging changes and forces. Therefore, IHEC 2019 intends to open a platform of discussion not only for understanding of student population and their influence on higher education institutions, but also for exploring their needs, the opportunities and challenges they bring to university life. The conference aims to share the new trends in the student population, contemporary theories and models in student affairs, teaching and learning, and shared governance among many others.

In order to delineate the conference theme from different angles, we hope that higher education policy makers, NGOs, industry and business world representatives, researchers and academics from all disciplines participate into our conference.

Topics of interests include the following areas:

• Diverse student body
• Academic, psychological, social and cultural development of students
• Student engagement in learning
• Academic support, mentoring and career planning
• Graduate education and graduate students
• Access, admission and student retention in higher education
• Student assessment and evaluation in higher education
• Lifelong education, adult learning, continuing education
• Distance and virtual learning, open education
• Globalization, internationalization and student mobility
• 21^st century learning spaces
• Student finance and support
• Youth studies

Advisory Committee

Prof. Dr. Marilyn J. AMEY, Michigan State University

Prof. Dr. Gülsüm BASKAN, Istanbul Okan University

Prof. Dr. Salih Zeki GENÇ, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Dean of the School of Education

Prof. Dr. Fatma Çiğdem GÜLDÜR, Gazi University

Prof. Dr. Yüksel KAVAK, TED University

Prof. Dr. Reitumetse Obakeng MABOKELA, Illinois University at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Dr. Dzulkifli Abdul RAZAK,International Islamic University Malaysia

Organizing Committee

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osman ÇEKİÇ, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Türker KURT, Gazi University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Nevra SEGGIE, Boğaziçi University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Serap EMİL, Middle East Technical University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Barış USLU, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Dr. Alper ÇALIKOĞLU, Association for Higher Education Studies

Res. Assist. Dr. Sezen APAYDIN, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Res. Assist. Dr. Halime ÖZTÜRK ÇALIKOĞLU, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Res. Assist. Şahabettin AKŞAB, Middle East Technical University

Scientific Committee

Prof. Dr. Hasan Hüseyin AKSOY, Ankara University

Prof. Dr. Naciye AKSOY, Gazi University

Prof. Dr. Ahmet AYPAY, Anadolu University

Prof. Dr. Melek ÇAKMAK, Gazi University

Prof. Dr. Temel ÇALIK, Gazi University

Prof. Dr. Burhanettin DONMEZ, İnönü University

Prof. Dr. İbrahim DUYAR, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yunus ERYAMAN, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Prof. Dr. Donald HOSSLER, University of Southern California (Emeritus)

Prof. Dr. Nurdan KALAYCI, Gazi University

Prof. Dr. Kasım KARAKUTUK, Ankara University

Prof. Dr. Muharrem KILIC, Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Prof. Dr. Zeynep KIZILTEPE, Boğaziçi University

Prof. Dr. Yaşar KONDAKCI, Orta Doğu Teknik University

Prof. Dr. Aigerim KOSHERBAYEVA, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University

Prof Dr. Servet ÖZDEMİR, Başkent University

Prof. Dr. Kseanela SOTIROFSKI, Aleksandër Moisiu University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adnan BOYACI, Anadolu University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zafer CELİK, Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nihan DEMIRKASIMOGLU, Hacettepe University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enes GOK, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sedat GUMUS, Aarhus University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bekir GUR, Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Akif HELVACI, Uşak University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Çağatay KILINC, Karabük University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Izabella PETRIASHVILI, Tbilisi State University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Riyad A. SHAHJAHAN, Michigan State University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayhan URAL, Gazi University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Zaheer ASGHAR, Helsinki University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Melike Ş. ÇAĞATAY, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Adil ÇORUK, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Burcu ERDEMIR, Çankaya University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Seung-Hwan HAM, Hanyang University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Emine ONEN, Gazi University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Durmuş ÖZBAŞI, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Assist. Prof. Dr. R. Şamil TATIK, Muş Alparslan University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Felix WEISS, Aarhus University

Assist. Prof. Dr. A. Adem YAMAN, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Derya YORGANCIOGLU, Ozyeğin University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Yisu ZHOU, Macau University

Dr. Afet DUNDAR, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

Dr. Meltem AKBULUT-YILDIRMIS, Munich Technical University

Dr. Tuncer FIDAN, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

Yüksel Kavak

Professor, TED University, Turkey

Dr. Yüksel Kavak, who is an educational administration professor, has various publications on education policies, basic education, higher education, teacher education, Bologna Process and economics of education.

Among his primary studies, Demography and Management towards 2050 in Turkey: Repercussions on Turkish Education System (Turkish Industry and Business Association- TUSIAD and United Nations Population Fund- UNFPA, 2010), which includes long-term tendency projections for pre-school, upper-secondary and higher education levels in Turkey within 2010 and 2050, and Teacher Education and Faculties of Education (with A. Aydın and S. Akbaba-Altun, Higher Education Council, 2007), which presents analyses about the improvements in teacher education between 1982 and 2007, can be emphasized. He also took part in MoNE Teacher Employment Projections, Strategies and Systems Development Project (2013) as a researcher, which covers teacher supply and demand projections till the year 2023, within MoNE-IKOP.

In addition to teaching and research experiences in the university, between the years of 1996 and 2005, he served as a consultant in various educational projects – aiming at extending schooling of girls such as ‘Girls, Let’s Go to School’ and ‘Child-Friendly School’- conducted by MoNE in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Bank and the European Commission. Further, he took part in many professional training activities for educational administrators and supervisors.

He received his Ph.D in Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economics at Hacettepe University in 1986, and worked as a faculty member of the Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University between the years of 1991 and 2017. He held several administrative positions on different levels of the same university, and served as the vice-rector from 2012 to 2015. Besides, he was a visiting professor at Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University during 2000-2002. In the 2007-2008 academic year, he had been a visiting researcher at the University of Memphis, Center for Research in Educational Policy, Tennessee, USA.

He also held positions in TEA (Turkish Education Association) as a Scientific Committee member (2003-2005), in UNESCO as a Turkish National Commission Education Specialization Committee member (2010-2014) and in Turkish Volleyball Federation as an Education Board Coordinator (2006-2007 and 2011-2012). He is still a member of the Accreditation Board in the Association for the Evaluation and Accreditation of the Education Faculty Programs (EPDAD).

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David Reimer

Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

David Reimer is a professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. His research focus is on social stratification, with a focus on inequalities in access to higher education across class, gender, and ethnic divides. He is also interested in the transition from (higher) education to work. Much of his work has a cross-country comparative perspective. His work has appeared in various international journals such as European Sociological Review, Higher Education, and School Effectiveness and School Improvement.

Social Inequality and Participation in Higher Education: Present findings and future challenges

In this keynote, I will give an overview over the literature on stratification in higher education, dealing in particular with horizontal stratification and inequality of access to different higher education institutions and fields of study. I begin by outlining the theoretical framework normally used to explain the association between socioeconomic background and participation in higher education. Subsequently, drawing on research on European and Anglo-Saxon countries, I discuss the role of institutional stratification, looking at differences between different types of higher education institutions such as university colleges, universities, and undergraduate and graduate degrees. Next, I discuss the growing literature on students’ choice of field of study in higher education before examining processes of cultural differentiation among higher education students. Finally, I point to some recent developments in the field – with particular emphasis on recent intervention studies designed to promote the choice of higher education and to reduce social inequality.

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Certificate of attendances will be given only to participants who register and attend the conference.

Early-bird Registration (8 August – 22 August 2019)

Faculty Members	Students	For Non-Presenters
200 USD	150 USD	100 USD

Late Registration

Faculty Members & Students 23 August – 16 September 2019

For Non-Presenters 8 August – 10 October 2019

Faculty Members	Students	For Non-Presenters
250 USD	175 USD	125 USD

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Payment

Bank Account (USD)

Account Name : Yükseköğretim Çalışmaları Derneği

Bank : Garanti Bank

Branch : Pendik

Branch Code: 137

City : Istanbul

Account Number : 9072493

IBAN : TR89 0006 2000 1370 0009 0724 93

Swift Code: TGBATRISXXX

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Researchers who would like to proceed with the publication process will have two options as mentioned earlier: Full text in the Proceedings Book or Journal Article in the Journal of Higher Education, Turkey.  Please see the further details on these two options below:

(1) The Proceedings Book (e-book) Process guided by YOCAD

The deadline for the full-text paper submission is October 27^th, 2019 and needs to be written in a pre-defined format and should be sent as a word document via email to yocad.ihec@gmail.com address.

The editors of the proceedings book will make the necessary editing and changes before publishing the full-text in the e-book.

(2)  Journal article publication in collaboration with Journal of Higher Education, Turkey (Yükseköğretim Dergisi) 

Author(s) can only choose one of the options above; in other words, author(s) cannot publish the same paper in both proceedings book and in the journal.

The journal article publication procedures as follow:

All the journal articles should be sent in a journal format that can be reached at http://www.yuksekogretim.org/en/pages.asp?k=2.

If there is a sufficient number of journal article on the conference theme, “Students in Higher Education”, the articles will be evaluated for the Special Issue. If there is no sufficient number, the manuscripts will be evaluated through the journal’s regular publication process.

The deadline for the Journal of Higher Education article submission is December 13^th, 2019 and will be sent as a word document via email to yocad.ihec@gmail.com address.

All the submissions sent to the journal should be clearly stated.

Submitted journals will be considered by YOCAD editors first, then by the Journal of Higher Education, Turkey editors and will be sent to the reviewers for the regular review process. Until all these three steps are fulfilled, there will be no final decision made about the publications.

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Full Paper Book Format

You can reach the full paper book format in this link. (PDF)

You can download the full paper book format from this link. (docx)

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IHEC 2019 Abstracts