International Higher Education, Spring 1999

News of the Center for International Higher Education

The Center has received the financial support of the Ford Foundation for its work. Ford support has made the expansion of International Higher Education possible. We have added 4 to 8 pages to each issue, and we have been able to expand our mailing list as well. The Newsletter will provide more in-depth regional coverage of higher education issues worldwide. Our first symposium, on higher education reform in Latin America, is published in this issue. IHE continues its collaboration with the Quality Support Centre of the Open University in the United Kingdom, and is also working with the Society for Research on Higher Education, in the United Kingdom.

Work on our directory of programs and centers in higher education continues. We hope to publish our directory by the end of 1999. It will be the first comprehensive international listing of centers and institutes devoted to research and policy in higher education.

The program in higher education at Boston College will be adding a focus on Catholic higher education to its specializations in the coming year. This focus will be led by Assistant Professor Kathleen Mahoney, a specialist in this field. Dr. Mahoney will be offering a course on religion and higher education in fall 1999. Associate Professor Karen Arnold, program coordinator, has been presented with the Teacher of the Year Award by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. NASPA has also recognized Dr. Kristin Renn, a recent graduate of the program, with its award for the best doctoral dissertation of the year. Dr. James JF Forest, formerly assistant editor of IHE, has recently joined Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire as director of planning and technology.

Higher Education in the 21st Century, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson, has recently been published. This 92-page volume provides a stimulating discussion of the central issues facing higher education worldwide. Its innovative format presents a theme paper (by Philip G. Altbach and Todd Davis) and eight responses from key higher education analysts from around the world. Among the respondents are Weifang Min, executive vice president of Peking University in China, Nasima Badsha, deputy director of higher education in the government of South Africa, George S. Eshiwani, vice chancellor of Kenyatta University in Kenya, and others. This volume is copublished with the Institute of International Education (IIE), and stems from a conference sponsored by the IIE in December 1998. Copies of the book may be purchased from IIE Books, POB 371, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701, USA.

Higher Education in the 21st Century can be downloaded in PDF format at: