The Center will sponsor an international conference focusing on private higher education in spring 1998. In preparation for this conference, essays on aspects of private higher education development will be commissioned; a book on this topic will be published following the event. A special focus will be on Latin America, and one of the goals of the meeting is to examine the experiences of different regions in the area of private higher education. This initiative is supported by the Ford Foundation.

Dr. Yoon Tai Kim, a professor of educational administration at Sogang University, the Jesuit institution in Seoul, Korea, has joined the Center as a visiting scholar for the fall semester. In January 1998, Fr. Xabier Gorostiaga, SJ, the rector of the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua, will be coming to the Center for a year of study and reflection. The Administrative Fellows Program, which provides funding, work experience in higher education, and a related seminar to students, mainly at the doctoral level, at Boston College, is now in its second year of operation. It has significantly expanded, and 22 students are Administrative Fellows for 1997-98. Ms. Kris Renn, a doctoral student in higher education and coordinator of the internship program, has been awarded a doctoral research fellowship from the Spencer Foundation. This is the highest Spencer award available for students.