Marek Kwiek and Marcin Byczyński organized the 37th Annual CHER Conference in Poznan, September 3-5, 2025, with 220 participants!

CHER – Consortium of Higher Education Researchers founded in 1988.

The conference website is here: https://cher2025.amu.edu.pl/

The theme for the CHER 2025 Annual Conference was “Adapting to Change: Higher Education Systems, Institutions and Academics in a Transforming World”. The political, social, and economic world has been changing ever more rapidly and higher education (HE) institutions, embedded in their countries and regions, are increasingly exposed to new risks, challenges, as well as opportunities.

While higher education has always been exposed to change pressures, the current political, economic, demographic, funding, and technological pressures seem to intensify, and new pressures emerge. Different world regions and countries experience these pressures differently. National and global HE communities should be prepared to study current trends, contextualize current pressures, and explore their implications. Change in HE has multi-level implications: from large-scale implications for national systems and individual organizations to micro-level implications for students and academics.

The overarching theme of change included change in education, change in research and innovation, change in third mission and impact, and change in governance and internationalization.