Ratna Ghosh

Service to the Community

International Conferences:

• Member, Organizing Committee, Co-convenor of Thematic Group #7 for 12th WORLD CONGRESS OF COMPARATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETIES ,  Havana, Cuba,  25 – 29 October,  2004

National and International Committees

• 2007-2008: Member, Research Advisory Committee, Canadian Education Association,

• Royal Society of Canada:
• Council Member, RSC, 2002-8
  
• Chair, Committee on the Advancement of Women in Scholarship, 2002-2004; 2004-8
  
• Chair, Committee for the Alice Wilson Award, 2002-8
• Member of the Innis-Gerin Medal Committee, 2001-
• Chair, Science Education Committee (FOCAL point for Inter-american Network of Academies of Science- IANAS), 2004+
  
• Member: Policy Action Group on Learning, Commission on Globalization - State of the World Forum, 2002-
• Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.): Member, Board of Directors, 1995-1998
• International Advisory Committee, Pennsylvania State University, 1997-2002
• Commission on Multicultural Education, 1995-1996
• Appointed member of the National Advisory Committee on Development Education by Minister of External Relations, 1989-1991
• External Reviewer for Tenure, Grants, Full Professorship (various universities) 
• Canadian Human Rights Foundation 
• National Council Member, 1982-1998 
• Member, Board of Directors, 1986-1998 
• Member of the Executive Committee, 1991-1993
• Education Committee, 1995-1998 
• International Committee, 1997-1998
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
• President, 1988-1990
• Member, Board of Directors, 1983-1988
• Treasurer and Member, Executive Committee, 1986-1988
• Secretary and Member, Executive Committee, 1984-1986
• Strategic Review Committee, 1994-1995
• Chair, Fellowship Selection Committee, 1994

McGill University Committees

• Chair, McGill Task Force on Internationalization, 2002
• McGill News, Member Advisory Board, 1996-1998
• Senate: Member 1992-1995, 1998-2003
• Senate Nominating Committee, 1992-1995
• Honorary Degrees Committee, 1993-1996
• Member of Joint Senate-Board Committee on Equity, 1994-1998
• Equity Sub-Committee on Race Relations, 1994-1998
• Member of Committee on Beatty Lectures, 1996-1998
• McGill Centre for Teaching and Research on Women (MCTRW) Selection Committee, 1994-1995
• Centre for Developing Area Studies:
  • Advisory Council, 1979-1984
  • Publications Committee, 1984
• University Tenure Committees:
  • Tenure Committee, Faculty of Arts, 1991-1993
  • Tenure Committee, Faculty of Education, 1998-
• Statutory Selection Committees for Full Professor:
  • Faculties of Arts, Law, Management, Religion, Sociology
• Cyclical Review Committee, Department of Sociology, 1991
• Convenor, Foreign Student Committee, 1984-1985
• McGill-Shastri Advisory Committee Chairperson, 1983-1985
• Counselling Service, Member Advisory Board, 1986-1991
• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research:
  • Promotions Committee, 1993
  • Executive Committee, 1983-1985
  • Course Sub-Committee, 1984-1985
  • Member, Graduate Faculty Council, 1981-1982, 1983-1986
  • Ad hoc Ph.D. Admissions Committee, 1981-1985
  • Pro-Dean for doctoral examinations, 1983-
  • Member, Graduate Faculty Tenure Committee, 1986-1989
  • Member, Dean's Task Force on Graduate Degrees, 1985-1986
  • Convenor, Committee on Foreign Student Fees, 1981-1982
• McGill International
  • Acting Director, 1995
  • Executive Committee, 1983-1988
  • Coordinator, South and South-Asia Division, 1984-1990
  • Advisory Board, 1980-1990

McGill Faculty of Education Committees

• Member, Committee on Student Standing, 1978-1981
• Chairperson, Graduate Studies Committee, 1981-1982, 1983-1986
• Member, Cyclical Review Committee, Department of Religion and Philosophy in Education, 1987
• Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Department of Administration & Policy Studies in Education, 1984-1995
• Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Department of Culture & Values in Education, 1995-1998
• Chair, Administrative Group, 1998-
• Chair, Faculty Council, 1998-

Organization of National and International Symposia

• Organizing Committee: Tri-national Conference on Emerging Issues in Education (NAFTA), Tampico, Mexico, October 30 to November 1, 1997
• Organizing Committee: Colloque international de l'Association francophone d'éducation comparée: Pluralisme et éducation: politiques et pratiques au Canada, en Europe et dans les pays du Sud, l'apport de l'éducation comparée
• Responsable, Commission III, Montreal, May 10-13, 1994
• Coordinator:
  • Conference on South Asians in Canada, Ottawa, 1990
  • International Conference on Education and Social Change in India, McGill University, 1985
  • Bilateral Workshop on Educational Technology, New Delhi, India, 1983
  • Symposium on the Education of Minority Groups, McGill University, 1980
  • Symposium on the Integration of South Asians in Canada, McGill University, 1979
  • Conference on Minority Groups and Education, McGill University, 1978 (Report published in Ethnic Studies, X(2), 1978, pp.136-138.)

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