International Higher Education, Fall 1999

News of the Center for International Higher Education

Work has started on the Reference Handbook on African Higher Education. This major volume, coordinated by Philip G. Altbach and Damtew Teferra and funded by the Ford Foundation, will be the first full-scale analytic guide to higher education in Africa. Chapters dealing with each African country as well as several comparative essays will be included. The Center is also continuing its work on the Inventory of Programs and Centers in Higher Education. This project, which is scheduled to be finished early in 2000, will provide information on centers and programs in higher education worldwide. It will be published in book form and will also be posted on the WWW. Dave Engberg is coordinating work on this project with the help of Kevin Sayers.

The Center has been awarded a grant by the International Education Research Foundation, Inc. of Los Angeles. This award will assist work on the inventory of higher education programs and especially the compilation of journals in the field of higher education that is part of the inventory project.

Z. Zou, professor of education at Beijing Normal University in China, has joined the Center as a visiting scholar for the fall term, 1999. In the spring, two senior Fulbright scholars will be working at the center. Prof. Molly Lee of the Science University of Malaysia and Dr. Julio Durand of the Austral University in Buenos Aires, Argentina will be pursuing their research. In addition, Dr. Jairam Reddy, former chair of the higher education commission in South Africa, currently a Fulbright scholar at Michigan State University, will be at Boston College for the spring term.

The Higher Education Program has welcomed three Fulbright scholars to its academic programs this fall. Two are from Argentina and one from Morocco. In addition, students with awards from the Mexican and Argentine governments have joined the program.