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Roberta Bassett |
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Roberta Malee Bassett is a Lecturer in Higher Education Management in the Center for Higher Education Management and Policy (CHEMPaS) at the University of Southampton (UK). She graduated from Boston College's Higher Education program with her Ph.D. in 2005, and her dissertation research concerned international trade policies and their implications for American higher education. While serving as a research assistant in the Center for International Higher Education at BC, she served as the Managing Editor two educational journals--Educational Policy (2004-2005) and The Review of Higher Education (2000-2004). Roberta received her AB in International Relations from Columbia University and her AM in Higher Education Administration from Stanford University. Her current research interests focus on intersections of governmental and non-governmental organizations and higher education issues and interests, in the US and abroad.
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Rev. John S. Chen |
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Rev. John S. Chen was elected as Vice Secretary General of National Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 2004 and was appointed as the Executive Vice Rector of Beijing
National Catholic Seminary soon after. A graduate of Shanghai Sheshan Seminary in China. Rev. John Chen received his master's degree in Theology from Saint John's Seminary,
Boston before earning a doctorate in higher education administration from Boston College.
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David Engberg |
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Dave Engberg directs of the Office of Overseas Programs and Partnerships in the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His interests lie in the field of international education, specifically as relate to campus-wide internationalization activities and the use of technology in enhancing international programming. Previous international education-related professional appointments include positions at the Center for International Higher Education, the American Council on Education, Montana State University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has also worked as an English language teacher in Japan. Dave holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Boston College, Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Nebraska, and a diploma in German language studies from the U.S. Defense Language Institute. He is the co-author, with Philip G. Altbach, of Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000).
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James JF Forest |
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James JF Forest is Director of Terrorism Studies and Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he conducts research
projects for the USMA Combating Terrorism Center and teaches courses in international relations, comparative foreign policy, information warfare,
and political development in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this position, he served for three years as the Assistant Dean for Academic Assessment
at West Point. His scholarly interests include issues of teaching and learning (both individually and organizationally) from a global perspective. His
publications include University Teaching: International Perspectives (Garland Press, 1998), I Prefer to Teach: An International Study of
Faculty who Prefer Teaching over Research (RoutledgeFalmer Press, 2001), Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2 Volumes),
co-edited with Kevin Kinser (ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2002), and The International Handbook of Higher Education (2 Volumes), co-edited with Phil Altbach
(Springer Publications, 2005).
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Alma Maldonado |
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Alma Maldonado-Maldonado is an Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona. She was a research assistant
in the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, where she completed her Ph.D. She has been on the staff of the Center for
the Study of the University (CESU) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research focuses on comparative higher education,
international organizations, higher education policy andresearch, and Latin American higher education. Maldonado is author and co-author of several
articles and co-editor of two books.
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Robin Matross Helms |
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Robin Matross Helms completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration at Boston College in May, 2005. Her dissertation research focused on the
experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities. Robin holds an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and an
M.B.A. from Boston College, and has worked for a number of organization in the field of international education, including EF Education and the Institute of
International Education. She is currently Coordinator for Faculty Awards in the Office of the Provost at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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Gilton Eun-Jun Lee |
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Gilton Lee earned his doctoral degree Boston College in 2007. His dissrtation topic was related to the use of technology in higher education from a comparative perspective.
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and received another master's degree in Educational Technology at the University of Connecticut.
His academic interests are comparative higher education, and curricular and technological issues in higher learning. Currently he is developing and managing the Website of CIHE.
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Patty Murphy |
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Patty Murphy is currently the Director of Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning at the University of Richmond. She is a member of AIR (Association of Institutional Research), NEAIR (Northeast Association of Institutional Research), and SAIR (Southern Association of Institutional Research). She also represents UR in a data sharing organization for private colleges and universities, HEDS (Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium). Prior to coming to UR, she has held positions in institutional research at Dickinson College and Tufts University. Patty completed her Ph.D. in 2000 on the Democratization of University Governance in Spanish Public Universities at Boston College. She also has a MA in Higher Education and Student Development from BC and a BA in French from Wellesley College.
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Elisa Park |
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Elisa Park is a part time professor and a researcher at the Yonsei
Educational Research Center at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Among her
current research interests are leadership of university presidents,
evaluation systems for presidents, administrative effectiveness, university
brand image, and governmental policy for private institutions.
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Francesca B. Purcell |
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Francesca Purcell is the Associate Director for Academic Policy at the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
She graduated from the Boston College higher education administration doctoral program in May 2004
where she was a graduate assistant for the Center for International Higher Education.
Her dissertation focused on the organizational development of women's colleges in the Philippines.
Francesca earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies at Amherst College and her master's degree in college student development at Northeastern University.
Her publications include Coming of Age: Women's Colleges in the Philippines during the Post-Marcos Era (2005) and
Women's Universities and Colleges: An International Handbook (2004) with Robin Matross Helms and Laura Rumbley.
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Liz Reisberg |
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Liz Reisberg is a research associate at the Center for International Higher Education with primary responsibility
for the ongoing development of the Center's website and online resources for scholars and practitioners.
She completed her doctorate at Boston College in 2007.
Liz's dissertation focused on the experience of three universities in Argentina with institutional self study.
Her research interests continue to focus on quality assurance and reform in Latin American higher education.
Prior to joining the staff at CIHE Liz had a long career in international admissions and
was the co-founder and executive director of The MBA Tour.
She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MEd from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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Laura E. Rumbley |
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Laura E. Rumbley completed her doctoral studies in higher education administration at Boston College in May 2007, with a dissertation focused on internationalization in the universities of Spain.
She received her bachelor's degree in international politics from Georgetown University and her master's degree in international education and training from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
A former Foreign Service Officer, Laura is now a research associate at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE).
Among her primary responsibilities there is the coordination of the CIHE Podcast Initiative; she is also managing director of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA).
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Kevin Sayers |
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Kevin Sayers is Vice President for Planning and Strategy at Capitol University in Columbus Ohio. His professional expertise and research
interests are in institutional research and planning, data-informed leadership, institutional change and innovation, and legal issues in higher education.
Recently, he has played important leadership roles in building integrated institutional research, planning, and assessment functions at several colleges
and universities. He enjoys designing and launching institution-wide planning efforts that are inclusive of both strategic management goals and student
learning outcomes. He is currently researching the use of key performance indicators (KPI) in a comparative context.
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Hala Taweel |
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Hala Taweel is the president and co-founder of the University of the Middle East Project, a non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born in Jerusalem, Dr. Taweel was raised in Nablus and Ramallah. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Boston College and a Master’s
in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her first Master’s, in Computer Science and Human Science,
was received from Paris VIII University in Paris, France. She also holds a Diploma in Diplomatic and Strategic Studies from the Center for Law and Defense at Paris V University.
Dr. Taweel's interest is in international higher education, with a special focus on the Middle East. She is also member of the Board of Trustees of Roger Williams University, in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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Damtew Teferra |
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Damtew Teferra, Ph. D. is currently Director for Africa and the Middle East at the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program based
at the Institute of International Education in New York. Until recently, he was Associate Research Professor of Higher Education
at the Center for International Higher Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Boston.
He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa and the Founder and Director of
the International Network for Higher Education in Africa (http://www.bc.edu/inhea).
Damtew is the Senior Editor of the Conover-Porter Award winning book African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook
(Indiana University Press, 2003) and an author of Scientific Communication in African Universities: National Needs and External Support (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003).
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Weiping Wang |
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Weiping Wang holds a doctorate from Boston College and master degrees from Harvard and Peking University. She is currently doing research on
Chinese higher education, particularly on the academic profession in Chinese private higher education, in an international and comparative context
and is working closely with CREC--Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China, the University of Hong Kong. She is also interested in international
education and is teaching in Hong Kong International School. Her main publications and presentations include: Isomorphism or Diversity?
(paper presented at the January 2005 Annual Conference of Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong);Theme: Approaches and Strategies in
Comparative Education (Hong Kong Institute of Education, November 2004);The Reviving Academic Profession in China: The Case of Zhejiang
Shu Ren University (paper presented at the International Conference of the Development of Private Higher Education, Zhejiang Shu Ren University,
November 2004); Faculty Development at a Private Educational Institution in China (paper presented at the conference of Comparative Education
in an Increasingly Globalized World, Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK) Annual conference 2004, Hong Kong University).
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