International Higher Education, Summer 2001

News of the Center for International Higher Education

The Center is beginning a new initiative on private higher education. In collaboration with Professor Dan Levy at the State University of New York at Albany and with the support of the Ford Foundation, current information and analysis on private higher education worldwide will be collected, categorized, and made available to a wide audience through publications and a website. Alma Maldonado, a doctoral candidate in the Center for International Higher Education, will be responsible for this new project in collaboration with a colleague at SUNY-Albany.

The Ford Foundation, which has supported the work of the Center for the past several years, has renewed its support for an additional two years. This support will permit the Center to publish its newsletter and develop further initiatives in international higher education.

A successful working conference on the changing academic workplace was held in May at the Rockefeller Foundation’s conference center in Bellagio, Italy. The conference brought together scholars from 13 countries—including India, China, South Korea, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and others—who wrote essays on the academic profession. A book will be prepared based on these essays. The project is funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

A special theme issue of Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning concerning comparative perspectives on the academic workplace in Europe and North America has been published. It is coedited by Philip G. Altbach, Jürgen Enders of the University of Kassel in Germany, and Richard Chait of Harvard University. The issue features articles on eight countries. It is the January-March, 2001 issue.
Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center, continues to teach in the master’s program in higher education at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This program provides training to higher education professionals. Philip Altbach’s book on comparative higher education will be published in Spanish in Argentina as part of the Palermo program. The program is directed by Professor Miguel Escotet, UNESCO Chair in higher education at Palermo. Philip Altbach will keynote a conference on general education at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan in December.

In Defense of American Higher Education, edited by Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, and D. Bruce Johnstone, has been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It is available in both paperback and hardcover editions. The book features essays providing a critical yet positive analysis of contemporary American higher education.

The Routledge-Falmer Dissertation Series in Higher Education
The RoutledgeFalmer Dissertation Series in Higher Education, edited by Philip G. Altbach, publishes the best research-based dissertations. The intention is to provide a source for the best research in the field in a timely way. The series is multidisciplinary and publishes dissertations from all methodological and substantive perspectives. The series is open to research in all fields of higher education, including policy-related studies, historical research, student affairs and development, among others. The criteria for publication is relevance to scholars, administrators, and policymakers in higher education and the quality of the research and presentation of the dissertation.
The RoutledgeFalmer Dissertation Series in Higher Education is able to bring the best scholarship to relevant audiences and is able to publish relatively specialized studies. Books in the series are published in hardcover editions and made available to professionals in higher education as well as to university and other libraries in the United States and abroad. Our aim is to advance the field of higher education by highlighting the best research.

How the Series Works
Ideas for books in the series may be submitted directly to RoutledgeFalmer Publishers or to the series editor. An abstract of the dissertation should be provided initially. If a dissertation is selected for inclusion in the series, a contract will be issued by RoutledgeFalmer. The author will be able to revise the dissertation for publication. After revision, the manuscript will be submitted to Garland Publishing, Inc. along with an unformatted disk. RoutledgeFalmer will not provide copyediting but will design the book and publish it. The entire publication process from the submission of the final manuscript and disk to bound books typically takes 7 to 9 months, not including time for preparing the index. All books are published in hardcover to library standards. A standard royalty of 4 percent on net receipts is paid to the author. A half-dozen titles have already been published in this new series, and others are in production.

For more information or to submit a proposal, please contact:

Dr. Philip G. Altbach or
Dr. Farideh Koohi-Kalmali
RoutledgeFalmer Publishing, Inc.
29 W. 35th St.
New York NY 10001, USA
E-mail: <fkamali@routledge-ny.com>.
General editor: Philip G. Altbach
Published in cooperation with the Program in Higher Education, Boston College

Graduate Assistantships for Doctoral Study in Higher Education
The Program in Higher Education at Boston College offers graduate assistantships for doctoral study in higher education for the 2002–2003 academic year. With five full-time faculty, the Program is one of the most distinguished in the United States It is one of the few that offers a focus on comparative and international higher education issues. Other areas, including higher education administration, student affairs and development, religion in higher education, and others are also available. The doctoral program offers a diverse curriculum and an opportunity opportunity to study in the exciting academic environment of the Boston-area. Our Administrative Fellows Seminar is a unique opportunity for interaction with key scholars and administrators in Boston-area universities. For further information, please contact Professor Karen Arnold, coordinator of the higher education program. E-mail: <arnoldkc@mail1.bc.edu>.