Foreword
Ivano Dionigi, Rector
University of Bologna
Opening Address
Üstün Ergüder, President of the Council
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Highlights of the Observatory Activities
Öktem Vardar, Secretary General
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Keynote Address of the Conference
Hans van Ginkel, Honorary Professor
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Report from the US: Impacts on Academic Freedom
and Autonomy of Accreditation, State Quality
Assurance Processes, and the Rating Game
Robert Berdahl, Professor Emeritus
University of Maryland, USA
Quality Assurance: Friend or Foe?
Peter Williams, ENQA and Former Chief Executive
QAA, UK
Do Rankings Do What They Claim to Do?
Is it Time to Move Beyond Rankings?
Ellen Hazelkorn, Vice-President
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Rankings and Institutional Autonomy
Gero Federkeil, Vice-President IREG – Observatory
On Academic Rankings and Excellence – Centre for
Higher Education Development, Germany
Quality Assessment in Italian Higher Education
Fiorella Kostoris, Governing Council
Italian Quality Assurance Agency – ANVUR, Rome
Can quality assurance harm Academic Freedom?
A Short Case Study from Germany
Jens Jungblut, Member of the Council
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Does Quality Assurance Threaten Institutional
Autonomy and Academic Freedom?
Colin Tück, Director European Quality Assurance
Register for Higher Education – EQAR, Brussels
Does Quality Assurance Threaten Institutional
Autonomy and Academic Freedom?
Judith Eaton, President
Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA
Defining Quality
Lee Harvey, Professor Emeritus
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom in Light
of the new Conditions under which Higher Education Operates
Martina Vukasovic, Member of the Council
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Keynote Address of the Ceremony
Romano Prodi, Economist, formerly President of the
European Commission and Italian President of the Council of Ministers
Concluding Remarks
Üstün Ergüder, President of the Council
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
Final Greetings
Fabio Roversi-Monaco, Honorary President
Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna
The speakers
Magna Charta Observatory Publications
