Director, Center for Education & Social Systems Change
Jason E. Lane is the director of the Center for Education & Social Systems Change at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and SUNY Provost Fellow of the State University of New York. He is also an associate professor of educational policy, senior researcher at the Institute for Global Education Policy Studies, and co-director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) at the University at Albany (SUNY).
Lane’s research focuses on the organization and leadership of higher education institutions as well as their relationship to governments and quality assurance agencies. Most recently he has been studying the globalization of higher education, with a specific interest in the emergence of the multi-national university and the role of internationalization in quality assurance, public diplomacy, and economic and community development.
Lane has been a speaker and consultant in more than 30 countries across Asia, Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East. He is a frequent commentator on global trends in higher education. He has served on the boards of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Council for International Higher Education (CIHE), and the Gulf Comparative Education Society (GCES).
State Governments Leverage Higher Education in International Engagement
December 16, 2017
An analysis of the emerging role that states play in promoting the internationalization of higher education institutions suggests that colleges and universities engaged in international activity strengthen economic development and public diplomacy. Continue Reading...