Associate Professor Karen Arnold, coordinator of the Program in Higher Education, was selected as the best teacher in the School of Education by the Graduate Students Association. The citation mentioned Dr. Arnold's high standards and her concern for students. Damtew Teferra, graduate assistant in the Center for International Higher Education, was awarded a grant for research in Ethiopia during summer 1997. The award is from the Fondation Charles Leopold Mayer, a French foundation, and is for a study of the regionalization of publishing and higher education in Ethiopia. James JF Forest, a doctoral candidate in the higher education program, has completed work on an edited volume on teaching in higher education worldwide. The book will be published by Garland Publishing. Associate Professors Karen Arnold and Ted I. K. Youn have begun work on a study of Rhodes scholars as part of an ongoing concern with gifted youth. Liz A. Reisberg, graduate assistant in the Center for International Higher Education and managing editor of the Review of Higher Education, will lead a group of management educators on a tour of Latin American countries in the fall.

Fr. Rudi Heredia, S.J. has joined the Center as a visiting scholar for the summer of 1997. Fr. Heredia is director of the Social Science Center at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, India. In the fall, Prof. Y. T. Kim of Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, will join the Center as a visiting scholar. Sogang University is the Jesuit university in Korea. Monan Professor Philip G. Altbach recently returned from a conference on academic publishing in Central and Eastern Europe, held under the auspices of the Soros Foundation in Budapest, Hungary. In June, he will participate in a meeting on "higher education in the 21st century" in London, as a representative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. At present, the doctoral program in higher education has students from four continents.