News of the Center and the Higher Education Program at Boston College In the fall of 1996, the Center will coordinate a two-week seminar for senior administrators at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Twelve deans, directors and other top officials from Amsterdam will participate in a series of seminars and will work with counterparts at Boston area universities. It is hoped that this program will be followed by a similar seminar visit by Boston administrators to Holland in the future. The program is coordinated by Philip G. Altbach and Hans deWit of the University of Amsterdam.

Higher Education in International Perspective: Critical Issues, edited by Zaghloul Morsy and Philip G. Altbach has been published by Garland Publishing and UNESCO, with the cooperation of the Center for International Higher Education. This book features analyses of current developments in higher education worldwide, including such topics as the privatization of higher education, financial issues in higher education, universities and national development in Third World countries, and reports on developments in major countries and regions such as Russia, the Arab world, central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Francophone Africa. Contributors include many of the world's top specialists on higher education. For further information or to order this volume, write to Garland Publishing, Inc., 1000A Sherman Ave., Hamden, CT. 06514. FAX: (203) 230-1186.

The Center, in cooperation with Garland Publishing, Inc., publishes a book series in the field of higher education. The "Garland Series in Higher Education" is edited by Philip G. Altbach and publishes research based volumes on all aspects of higher education. Recent books in the series include:

The Center is currently hosting Professor Evgenyi Kodin, the vice rector of the Smolensk Pedagogical University in Russia. Professor Kodin is a historian and is interested in developments in American higher education. His visit is sponsored by the Junior Faculty Development Program of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Program). Mr. Saleem Badat, a lecturer at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, currently a H. H. Humphrey Fellow at Boston University, will be in residence at the Center for a month in the spring working on higher education leadership and politics in developing countries.

Mr. James JF Forest, a doctoral student in the Higher Education Program and a research associate for the Center, is editing a book on teaching and learning issues in higher education worldwide. This volume, which will feature contributors from many countries, will be published by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Dr. Karen Arnold, coordinator of the Higher Education Program at Boston College, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure. Dr. Arnold is a specialist on student development and is author, most recently, of Lives of Promise: What Becomes of High School Valedictorians (Jossey-Bass, 1995).

Copies of the Boston College Higher Education Program Handbook are available free of charge from the Center. This publication, recently revised, provides complete information about the courses of study, requirements, and resources of the higher education program.

The Handbook is also available in electronic form through the progam's World Wide Web site, at:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/svp/st_org/gea/hea/HEA.html
In addition to the handbook, this WWW site - developed by the graduate student-run Higher Education Association - provides other program-related information, profiles of the faculty in the Higher Education Program, and links to a number of online information resources of interest to students and scholars of higher education.