Marek Kwiek
Born:
17/09/1966,
Poznan (Poland)
Title:
University Professor and Director
Work:
Center for Public Policy, Adam
Mickiewicz University (Director), and
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of
Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznan, Poland
(Professor)
Website:
http://www.cpp.amu.edu.pl/kwiek/publications.htm
E-mail:
kwiekm@amu.edu.pl
1)
Professional/research experience
(a) Employment history
2002-Present – Director, Center for
Public Policy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
2001-Present – University Professor,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of
Philosophy, Poznan, Poland
1999-2001 – Associate Professor,
above
1999-1995 – Assistant Professor,
above
1995-1992 – Ph.D. candidate, above,
1999 – Habilitation title, 1995 – Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude), 1992
– MA
degree (summa cum laude)
(b) Boards of
directors – board
member of international projects,
director at 3 academic institutions
and vice-president of an
international educational
foundation
2004-Present – Board Member, European
Universities for Entrepreneurship – Their Role in the Europe of
Knowledge,
EU STREP Project, 6th Framework Program
2002-Present – Director, Center for
Public Policy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
2003 – Director, Education Research
& Development Center, Academy of Humanities and Economics
(WSHE), Lodz, Poland
2002-2000 – Board Member, Megaproject
Innovative Methods in the Social Sciences and the Humanities,
Kiev, Ukraine
(Institute of Educational Studies, Open Society Institute, Budapest).
Megaproject director:
Dr. Georgii Kasianov,
International Renaissance
Foundation
2002-1999 – Director for
International Programs, Erasmus/Socrates/ECTS Institutional
Coordinator,
Academy
of Hotel Management,
Poznan, Poland
2001-Present – Vice-President and
member of the Board of Directors, International Foundation for Higher
Education
Policy and Research, Kiev, Ukraine
(c) High-level expert groups – high-level
expert for OECD, Social Science Research Council, and the
European
Commission
2006 – OECD (High-Level Expert Group, CERI –
Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Paris),
Globalisation,
Market Forces and the Future of Higher Education (Paris,
Stéphan
Vincent-Lancrin)
2006 – SSRC – Social Science Research Council,
expert in the Working Group The
Transformation of
“Public” Research
Universities. Shaping an International and Interdisciplinary Research
Agenda
for
the Social Sciences (New
York, Craig Calhoun and Diana Rhoten)
2003 – OECD (High-Level Expert Group, CERI –
Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Paris),
The Future of the
University Project (Kurt Larsen)
2002-2001 – the European Commission,
HLEG (High Level Expert Group) STRATA expert group Developing
Foresight for
Higher Education/Research Relations in the Perspective of the European
Research
Area
(ERA) (chaired by Maurice
Godelier, coordinated by Elie Faroult, DG Research)
(d) Fellowships and
professorships abroad – a
recipient of fellowships: Reagan-Fascell
Democracy Fellow (National Endowment for Democracy), Fulbright junior
scholar,
and Kosciuszko Foundation scholar in the USA (Washington DC, U. of
Virginia, UC
Berkeley); a visiting professor at the Central European University in
Budapest,
and a visiting scholar in Canada and Germany. Most recently, a
Fulbright "New Century Scholar" (2007-2008, Stanford University).
2008-2007 - a Fulbright "New Century Scholar" (Inhibitors to Equity of
Access to Higher Education in the
European Transition
Countries), a planned research visit at Stanford University, USA
2003-2002 – a Reagan-Fascell
Democracy Fellow, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National
Endowment for Democracy
(NED),Washington, DC, USA (Reforming Higher
Education in Central and
Eastern Europe and
Democratic Values, 6 months)
2000-1999 – a visiting professor,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (1 semester)
1999 – a visiting scholar, J.F.
Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin,
Germany
(2 months)
1997-1996 – a Kosciuszko Foundation
postdoctoral visiting scholar, University of California
at Berkeley,
Department of History, USA
(6 months)
1996 – a Canadian Faculty Research
Award Program visiting researcher, McGill University, Department of
Philosophy,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2 months)
1995-1994 – a Fulbright Foundation
junior visiting scholar (doctoral student), University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Department
of Philosophy, USA (10 months)
(e) Recent research
projects – team member in a
dozen international (global and
European) collaborative projects in
higher education research and policy, funded by the EU, Ford
Foundation,
Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright, UNESCO-CEPES, Soros Foundation, the
Dutch
government
and the Open Society Institute. Projects concerned higher education
systems in
transition economies, widening access to higher education and higher
education
profession, academic entrepreneurialism, research policies,
globalization and
education, private higher education, doctoral degrees, academic
profession, and
university governance.
.
2007-2004 – partner and Board
Member, European Union European
Universities for Entrepreneurship – Their
Role in the Europe of Knowledge,
EU STREP Project, 6th Framework
Program, headed by Prof. Michael
Shattock and Prof. Gareth
Williams, University of
London, Institute of Education, UK
2005-2003 – associate team member,
European Union Network of
Excellence: PRIME (Policies for Research
and
Innovation in the Move Towards the European Research Area), 6th
Framework Program, headed by
Prof. Philippe Laredo,
LATTS, France
2005-2002 – team member, European
Union Erasmus GENIE Network
(Globalization and Education Network
in Europe),
headed by Prof. Susan Robertson, University of Bristol, UK
2004-2001 – team member, PROPHE: Program for Research on
Private
Higher Education, EAPS, State
University of New York at
Albany, USA, funded
by the Ford Foundation, (headed by Daniel C. Levy)
2003-2002 – team member, project The
International Attractiveness of the Academic Profession, led by
Prof.
Juergen Enders, CHEPS
(Center for Higher Education Policy Studies), Twente
University, the
Netherlands, funded by the
Dutch government
2003-2002 – team member, project Doctoral
Degrees and Qualifications in the Context of the European
Higher Education Area
and the European Research and Innovative Area, led by Dr. Jan
Sadlak,
UNESCO-CEPES, European
Centre for Higher Education Studies
2003-2002 – team member, a European Commission
and the European Association for Education Law and
Policy (ELA) project, Legal
Framework of New Governance in Education Throughout Europe
(hosted by
College of Europe, Bruges,
chaired by Prof. Jan De Groof)
2002 – team member, National
Systems of Scientific Personnel Training, Mutual Acknowledgement of
Academic
Qualifications and Academic Degrees in the Countries of Central and
Eastern
Europe,
International Renaissance
Foundation (IRF – Soros Foundation),
Kiev, Ukraine (chaired by G. Kasianov
and
Taras Finikov)
2002-2001 – grantee, Polish “State
Committee for Scientific Research” (KBN),
research project about Beyond
Modern University? Philosophical
Dimensions of Global Challenges
2001-2000 – team member, The
Academic Profession in a Changing International Environment,
Center for
International Higher
Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA, funded by
the Ford and Rockefeller
Foundations (headed by
Professor Philip G. Altbach)
2000-2001 – grantee, International OSI
Policy Fellowship, Center for Policy Studies, Central European
University (CEU), Budapest,
research project about The
Identity Crisis. Polish Higher
Education in
Transition
(h)
Academic honors
and distinctions
2005 – Editorial Board Member, Higher Education Quarterly (Blackwell)
2004 – Editorial Board member, European
Educational Research Journal (Symposium)
2002 – Consulting Editor, Globalization,
Education, and Societies (Routledge)
2002 – Advisory Board Member, Educational
Policy: Theory and Practice (Marmara University)
2) Publications
8 books (6 monographs,
2 edited volumes)
80 published articles
1.
Marek Kwiek (2006): The University and the State. A
Study into Global
Transformations. 424 pp. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang
Scientific
Publishers
2.
Marek Kwiek (2004): Intellectuals, Power, and
Knowledge. Studies in the Philosophy of Culture and Education. 301
pp.
Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers.
3.
Marek Kwiek ed. (2003): The University,
Globalization, Central Europe. 260 pp.
Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang
Scientific Publishers
4. Marek Kwiek and Taras Finikov (2001): The Polish Law on Higher Education. Lessons and Experience. 204 pp. Kiev: Taxon Publishing House (in Ukrainian).
5. Marek
Kwiek (1998): Dylematy tozsamosci.
Wokol autowizerunku filozofa w powojennej mysli francuskiej
(The Dilemmas of Identity. On the Self-Image of the Philosopher in the
Post-War French Thought). 340 pp. Poznan: IF UAM Press (in Polish).
6. Marek Kwiek ed. (1998): Nie pytajcie mnie, kim jstem... Michel Foucault dzisiaj (Do Not Ask Me Who I Am... Michel Foucault Today). 306 pp. Poznan: IF UAM Press (in Polish).
7. Marek Kwiek (1996): Rorty's Elective Affinities. The New Pragmatism and Postmodern Thought. 304 pp. Poznan: IF UAM Press.
8. Marek
Kwiek (1994): Rorty i Lyotard.
W labiryntach postmoderny (Rorty and Lyotard. In the Labyrinths
of Postmodernity). 200 pp. Poznan: IF UAM Press (in Polish).
Most recent papers (English
only, selected):
1.
Marek Kwiek, The
Harmonisation of European Educational Policies vs. Private Institutions
in the
Transition Countries. Prospero. A Journal of New Thinking in
Philosophy for
Education. Vol. 12. No. 1. 2006. 47-54.
2.
Marek Kwiek, The
University and the State in a Global Age: Renegotiating the Traditional
Social
Contract? European Educational Research Journal. Vol. 4. No. 4.
December
2005. 324-341.
3.
Marek
Kwiek, The
Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny. The Bologna
Process From
a Central European Perspective”. European Educational Research
Journal.
Vol. 3. No. 4. December 2004. 759-780 (reprinted in: Voldemar Tomusk,
ed., Creating
the European Area of Higher Education. Voices from the Periphery.
Dordecht:
Springer. 2006. 87-116.
4.
Marek
Kwiek, Education
and Human Rights in Poland. In: No Person Shall Be Denied the Right
To
Education: The influence of the European convention on
human rights
on the right to education and rights in education,
J. De Groof, G. Lauwers (eds), Antwerpen: Wolf Legal
Publishers. 2004. 407-420.
5.
Marek
Kwiek, The
Academic Workplace. In: The International Attractiveness of the
Academic
Workplace in Europe. Juergen Enders and Egbert de Weert (editors).
Frankfurt a/Main: GEW. 2004. 332-349.
6.
Marek
Kwiek, Doctoral
Studies and Qualifications: Poland. In: Doctoral Studies and
Qualifications
in Europe and the United States, ed. by J. Sadlak. Bucharest:
UNESCO. 2004.
119-135.
7.
Marek
Kwiek, Academe
in Transition: Transformations in the Polish Academic Profession. Higher
Education.
45 (4), June 2003, 455-476.
8.
Marek
Kwiek, The State, the
Market, and Higher
Education. Challenges for the New Century. In: The University,
Globalization, Central Europe. Marek Kwiek (ed.). Frankfurt a/M: Peter Lang. 2003. 71-113.
9.
Marek
Kwiek, The
Social Functions of the University in the Context of the Changing
State/Market
Relations (the Global, European Union and Accession Countries’
Perspectives).
In: Jan De Groof and Gracienne Lauwers (eds.), Globalisation and
Competition
in Education. Antwerpen: Wolf Legal Publishers. 2003. 179-213.
10.
Marek
Kwiek, The
Missing Link: Public Policy for the Private Sector in Central and East
European
Higher Education. Society for Research into Higher Education
International
News. 2/2003, June 2003. 5-7.
11.
Marek
Kwiek, Transformationen und
Anpassungen in polnischen
Hochschulwesen. In: Grenzüberschreitungen.
Internationalisierung im
Hochschulbereich, B. M. Kehm (Hrsg.). Wittenberg: HoF. 2003. 187-200.
12.
Marek
Kwiek, Agents, Spectators
and Social Hope. Theoria.
A Journal of Social and Political Theory. New York and Oxford:
Berghahn
Books. No. 101 (June 2003). 25-49.
13.
Marek
Kwiek, Wolf Lepenies: Homo Europaeus Intellectualis Revisited. In: Philosophie an der
Schwelle des 21.
Jahrhunderts. E. Czerwinska-Schupp (Hrsg.). Frankfurt a/Main: Peter
Lang.
2003. 329-349.
14.
Marek
Kwiek, Globalization as a
New Paradigm for
Rethinking Higher Education? Implications for the Future. Educational
Sciences: Theory and Practice, May 2002, Marmara University,
133-155 (in
Turkish).
15.
Marek
Kwiek, Critical Thinking and
Democracy Today: A
Central European Perspective. In: Democracy and Education.
Montclair
State University, Washington DC: Literal Books. 2002. 27-34.
16.
Marek
Kwiek, Freedom
and Globalization. In: P. Juchacz, R. Kozlowski (eds.). Freiheit und Verantwortung. Frankfurt
a/Main: Peter Lang. 2002. 47-62.
17. Marek
Kwiek, Reforming
Polish Higher Education and the New Millennium. International
Higher
Education.
Boston College Center for International
Higher Education. Boston. Issue 26. Winter 2002. 3-5.
18. Marek Kwiek, Philosophical
and Cultural Dimensions of Current Transformations of the Institution
of the
University. Higher Education in Europe. Vol.
XXVIII. No. 3/2001. Carfax London. 39-51.
(French and Russian
translations available from a CEPES/UNESCO website).
19. Marek Kwiek, Globalization
and Higher Education. Higher Education in Europe. Vol. XXVIII,
No.
1/2001. Carfax Publishing London. 23-41 (French and Russian
translations
available from a CEPES/UNESCO website).
20.
Marek
Kwiek, Central
European Higher Education and Global Pressures: The Three Aspects of
Globalization. In: Transformations, Adaptations and Integrations.
Global and
Local Problems. Z.
Drozdowicz (ed.). Poznan:
Humaniora. 2001. 161-174.
21.
Marek
Kwiek, The Nation-State,
Globalization and the Modern Institution of the University. Theoria.
A
Journal of Social and Political Theory. Oxford and New York:
Berghahn
Books. vol. 96. Dec. 2000. 74-99.
Forthcoming:
1. Marek Kwiek, The
University and the Nation State. Global Transformations and the Future
of Our
Educational Institutions. Journal of the Interdiciplinary Crossroads
(Allahabad,
India, 2006).
2. Marek Kwiek, The European Integration of Higher Education and the Role of Private Higher Education in the Transition Countries. In: Daniel C. Levy and Snejana Slantcheva (eds.), In Search of Legitimacy: Private Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007.
3.
Marek
Kwiek, Doctoral
Education in Poland (with P. W. Juchacz). In: Stuart Powell and Howard Green, The Doctorate Worldwide,
Open University Press, 2007.