Register and join the free webinar on "COVID-19 and the Economic Impact of Education" organized by the Star Scholars Network on June 30th at 10 a.m (Eastern Standard Time). IISE research fellows, Najeeb Shafiq and Stewart Sutin (now faculty of the University of Connecticut), along with the other two speakers, will discuss what policymakers can do now to mitigate the negative effects of crises.
Here are the speaker bios:
Harry A. Patrinos is the Practice Manager for Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank’s education global practice. He specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships.
Dr. M. Najeeb Shafiq is a Professor of Education, Economics, and International Affairs. He holds appointments in the School of Education (primary appointment), Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (joint appointment), and Department of Economics (secondary appointment). From August 2019, he began serving as the Executive Director of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).
Dr. Stewart E. Sutin retired in 2017 after serving for 10 years as a clinical professor of administrative and policy studies in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an adjunct faculty in the Management Department of the MBA program at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Shuning Liu is an Assistant Professor in Curriculum Studies at Teachers College, Ball State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Liu has been highly engaged with the study of international student mobility, globalization and education, comparative and international education, global education policy studies, and curriculum reform since she was a Ph.D. student at UW-Madison.
Register HERE for free.
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