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David J Hornsby is the Vice-Provost (Academic and Global Learning) and a professor in Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Hornsby was previously a faculty member and head of department at University College London’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy. He also spent eight years as a faculty member at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in the Department of International Relations, where he served as Assistant Dean of Humanities (Teaching and Learning).
Hornsby currently sits on the Boards of Digital Policy Studies, The Centre for Engaged Learning Open Book Series at Elon University and is the co-editor of the Political Pedagogies Series for Palgrave. He is the co-chair for the South Africa-Canada Universities Network and maintains a passion for international education, having served on the Governing Council of the International Studies Association, World University Service of Canada, and the Canadian Bureau for International Education. David is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Takeaways
Education systems (and I dare say a lot of other systems) are more alike than our accrediting bodies assume. David has worked at University College London (UCL) in London, England, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, and found both remarkably similar to Canada in culture, governance, degree structure, and what's expected of students. He says our accrediting bodies are held back by nervousness, uncertainty, and a lack of awareness about how other systems work. Solving this would need cultural humility and accepting that other higher education sectors "can be as good as ours."
Links
Where to find David:
David Hornsby; LinkedIn
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