Barbara Coloroso

Barbara Coloroso is an international bestselling author and for the past 38 years an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution and restorative justice.

She has appeared on Oprah, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and NPR and has been featured in the New York Times, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and other national and international publications.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

She is the author of four international bestsellers: kids are worth it! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline; Parenting Through Crisis—Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change; The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander—From Pre-School to High School, How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence; and Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right—From Toddlers to Teens, Teaching Kids to Think and Act Ethically. Barbara’s latest book is Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide…and Why it Matters. She also has two critically acclaimed video programs Winning at Parenting...without beating your kids and Winning at Teaching...without beating your kids.

Glen A. Jones

Glen A. Jones is the Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement and Professor of Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than seventy papers on Canadian higher education. His research and teaching focuses on higher education systems, governance, politics, and academic work. His recent edited books include Canada’s Universities Go Global (with Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Adrian Shubert, Lorimer, 2009), Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education (with Patricia McCarney and Michael Skolnik, University of Toronto Press, 2005) and Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance (with Alberto Amaral and Berit Karseth, Kluwer Publishing, 2002). His 1997 book entitled Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives was translated into Chinese and was published in China in 2007.

Glen is a past president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education and a former editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. He received the Distinguished Research Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education in 2001. He held a Senior Scholar visiting professorship at Fudan University (Shanghai) in 2007-2008 and was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar at the University of Oslo in 2008. He is a former Chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education (1998-2000), Associate Dean (2003-2011) and Acting Dean (2009) of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, and he has been a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba and the Governing Council of the University of Toronto.

Glen's research projects have been funded by a range of agencies and organizations, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, and the Ford Foundation. His contract research activities have included work for a number of governments, as well as the Law Society of Upper Canada, UNESCO, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations. He recently completed an external review (with B. Shapiro and A. Côté) of the governance structure at Concordia University (Montreal). His current projects include a national study of Canadian university governance and institutional autonomy ( with Julia Eastman and Claude Trottier supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), a study of Canadian university senates and academic governance (with Lea Pennock and Jeff Leclerc, the analysis of data from the Canadian component of the international Changing Academic Profession project, and an edited book on Universities and Regional Development (with Romulo Pinheiro and Paul Benneworth for Routledge, 2012).