The Center is involved in several new publications related to our initiative on the changing academic workplace. A special theme issue of Higher Education appears early in 2001 featuring articles on the changing academic workplace in Europe and the United States. This issue, coedited by Philip G. Altbach and Richard Chait, stems from the conference cosponsored by the Harvard Project on Academic Appointments, the Center for International Higher Education, and the new higher education initiative at the University of Amsterdam. A book relating to this issue and including several additional chapters and a comprehensive bibliography on the academic profession has also been published by the Center. Entitled The Changing Academic Workplace: Comparative Perspectives, this volume is available in limited quantities. It is free to those in developing countries and available for U.S.$15 for postage and handling to others (orders must be prepaid and checks must be made out to Boston Colleges in U.S. dollars).

Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs, edited by Philip G. Altbach and David Engberg, remains available from the Center. A commercial edition is also available from Oryx Publishers, 4041 North Central, Phoenix, AZ 85012, USA. Price: $45 (cloth).

Center director Philip G. Altbach was recently in Cuba to give a series of lectures as part of an exchange sponsored by the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Social Science Research Council. His host in Cuba was CEPES, the Cuban Higher Education Center. He will be one of the keynote speakers in March at a conference on “Globalization and Higher Education: Views from the South,” sponsored by the British Society for Research into Higher Education and the Educational Policy Unit of the University of Western Cape, South Africa. The conference will take place in South Africa.

Erratum
We regret that the name of Jürgen Enders was left out, as coeditor, of our special theme issue of Higher Education on the changing academic workplace. This is most unfortunate as Dr. Enders was involved in the development of this special issue from the beginning and has been a valuable colleague in our work on the academic profession. We apologize to our colleague for this oversight.