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Marek Kwiek

Born:               17/09/1966, Poznan (Poland)
Title:                 Professor and Director
Work:               Center for Public Policy (Director), Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University,
                         Poznan, Poland
Website:          http://www.cpp.amu.edu.pl
E-mail:             kwiekm@amu.edu.pl

1) Professional/research experience

(a) Employment history 

2009 - Full  Professor
2002-Present – Director, Center for Public Policy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
2001-2009 – 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 competitive international fellowships, including Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow (National Endowment for Democracy), Fulbright 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, Poznan/Stanford University).

2008-2007 - a Fulbright "New Century Scholar" (Inhibitors to Equity of Access to Higher Education in the
         European Transition Countries), under Professor D. Bruce Johnstone, NCS Distinguished  Leader    
         (SUNY/Buffalo)
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 15 international (global and European) collaborative  projects in higher education research and policy, funded by the European Commission, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, UNESCO-CEPES, Soros Foundation, several 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, university-enterprises partnerships, European research and education policies, globalization and education, private higher education, public-private partnerships, higher education and the labor market, academic profession, and university governance.

2013-2009 - partner and Board member, a European Union project, Marie Curie Initial Training Nework
            EDUWEL - Education and Welfare (coodinated by professor Hans-Uwe Otto (Bielefeld, Germany)
2009-2007 - partner, a European Union project GOODUEP - Good Practices in University - Enterprises
           Partnerships, LLL Multilateral Project, coordinated by Prof. Jose Gines Mora, CEGES, Technical
           University of  Valencia, Spain
2009-2008 - senior adviser (the other one being Professor Frans van Vught), a European Union project,
            Progress in Higher Education Reform Across Europe - Gvernance Reform (coordinated by Juergen
            Enders, Twente University, CHEPS - Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, Enschede, the
            Netherlands
2008-2007 - team member, a Flemish government project, European Higher Education Area: 2010 to 2020,
            (Brussels, coordinated by Prof. Barbara M. Kehm, Kassel, Germany)
2007-2004 – partner and Board Member, European Union European Universities for Entrepreneurship –                       Their Role in the Europe of Knowledge (EUEREK), EU STREP Project, 6th Framework Program,
            headed by  Prof. Michael  Shattock, Prof. Gareth Williams and Dr. Paul Temple, 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)
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

        (f) Recent expert positions in higher education policy projects – expert for higher education policy and educational reforms in numerous transition countries for the European Commission, USAID, the World Bank, Organisation of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), OECD, Council of Europe, several governments, ministries of education  and individual educational institutions. The countries included Poland, Ukraine, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Slovakia, and the Kyrgiz Republic. Area of special interest: widening access to ethnic minorities and under-represented segments of society, national legislation in higher education, Bologna process and Europeanization of higher education and research and development policies, university management and governance, academic entrepreneurship, higher education and social policies.

        (g) Recent policy papers, analytic reports, and institutional reviews ­– about recruitment policies, governance structures and access to higher education, research and development policies, funding in higher education, academic entrepreneurialism, new educational legislation, credit transfer systems, Bologna process in Europe, academic profession, social functions of the university, access of ethnic minorities to higher education, and opening education to the labor market. The countries covered included Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Kyrgiz Republic.

        (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)

90 published articles  (about 50 in English)

Books:

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 Two Decades of Privatization in Polish Higher Education. Cost-Sharing, Equity and Access”. In: Jane Knight (ed.). Financing Higher Education: Equity and Access. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 2009.  pp. 35-56. Also in: R. D. Reisz /M. Stock (Hrsg.), Die hochschule. Journal fuer Wissenschaft und Bildung. 2/2008.  94-113.

2.         Marek Kwiek,“Academic Entrepreneurship vs. Changing Governance and Institutional Management Structures at European Universities”. Policy Futures in Education. Vol. 6. No. 6. 2008. 757-770.

3.         Marek Kwiek,“Entrepreneurialism and Private Higher Education in Europe” W: Michael Shattock (ed.). Entrepreneurialism  in Universities and the Knowledge Economy. Diversification and Organisational Change in European Higher Education. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press. McGraw-Hill. 2008. pp. 100-120.

4.         Marek Kwiek, „Higher Education and the Nation-State: Global Pressures on Educational Institutions”. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 45, no. 1, April 2008. 109-130.

5.        Marek Kwiek, "Accessibility and Equity, Market Forces and Entrepreneurship: Developments in Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe". Higher Education Management and Policy.  Vol. 20. No. 1.  2008. pp. 89-110.

            Also as Marek Kwiek,  "Accessibilite et equite, lois du marche et entrepreneuriat: developpements dans l'enseignement superieur en Europe centrale et de l'Est". Politiques et gestion de l'enseignement superieur. Vol. 20. No. 1. 2008. pp. 1-25.

6.        Marek Kwiek, "The University and the Welfare State in Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context". In: Debbie Epstein et al. World Yearbook of Education 2008. Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education.  New York: Routledge. 2007. pp. 32-50.

7.         Marek Kwiek, "The European Integration of Higher Education and the Role of Private Higher Education". In: Daniel C. Levy and Snejana Slantcheva (eds.). Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe. In Search of Legitimacy. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. 2007. pp. 119-132. 

8.         Marek Kwiek, "The Welfare State and Higher Education on Their Way Towards Privatisation. Global and Transition Economies' Perspectives". Der Offentliche Sektor. 3/2007. Wien: Technischen Universitaet Wien. 2007.  pp. 9-24.

9.         Marek Kwiek, "The Future of the Welfare State and Democracy: the Effects of Globalization from a European Perspective". In: E. Czerwinska-Schupp (ed.). Values and Norms in the Age of Globalization. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang. 2007. pp. 147-172.

10.       Marek Kwiek (with Piotr W. Juchacz). "Doctoral Education in Pland". In: S.Powell and H. Green (eds.). The Doctorate Worldwide. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.McGraw Hill. 2007. pp. 77-97.

11       Marek Kwiek, "The Classical German Idea of the University Revisited, or on the Nationalization of the Modern Institution". Center for Public Policy Research Papers Series vol. 1 (2006). Poznan: CPP AMU. 2006. pp. 1-44.

12.       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.

13        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.

14.      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.

15.      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.

16.      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.

17       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.

18.       Marek Kwiek, Academe in Transition: Transformations in the Polish Academic Profession. Higher 
            Education. 45 (4), June 2003, 455-476.

19.       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.

20.      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.

21.      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.

22.       Marek Kwiek, Transformationen und Anpassungen in polnischen Hochschulwesen. In: Grenzüberschreitungen. Internationalisierung im Hochschulbereich, B. M. Kehm (Hrsg.). Wittenberg: HoF. 2003. 187-200.

23.       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.

24.       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.

25.       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).

26      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.

27.       Marek Kwiek, Freedom and Globalization. In: P. Juchacz, R. Kozlowski (eds.). Freiheit und Verantwortung. Frankfurt a/Main: Peter Lang. 2002. 47-62.

28.       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.

29.      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).

27.      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).

28.      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.

29.      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.

Updated January 2009
 

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