Work on our Africa higher education reference volume has been completed. This major volume will be published during 2002 by Indiana University Press. Copies will be made available to scholars and libraries in Africa without cost. The Ford Foundation has supported this project. We are also close to completing a volume on the changing academic workplace in developing and middle-income countries. This book, which will be published by Palgrave Publishers, stems from a research project funded by the Ford Foundation.

During October 2001, the Center hosted Dr. Francisco Lopez Segrera as a visiting fellow. Dr. Lopez Segrera has been the director of the UNESCO Center for Higher Education for Latin America and the Caribbean in Caracas, Venezuela. Center director Philip G. Altbach has been appointed a visiting scholar at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

There is still time to apply for master’s or doctoral study in higher education at Boston College. For further information, please contact Prof. Karen Arnold, coordinator of the Higher Education Program. Her e-mail is <Arnoldkc@bc.edu>.

The Center's work is supported by the Ford Foundation, which permits us to provide International Higher Education to readers worldwide without cost. Additional funding is provided by Boston College through the J. Donald Monan, S.J. Chair in Higher Education. The work of the Center could not be accomplished without the commitment of our staff. Jef Davis serves as assistant editor of IHE and works with our website as well as other activities. Damtew Teferra continues to coordinate the African higher education project. Recently, Teferra attended conferences in Kenya and South Africa relating to African higher education. Alma Maldonado is coordinating our new private higher education initiative and assists with Center activities. Roberta Bassett is the managing editor of the Review of Higher Education and assists with other CIHE-related activities. Hasan Ez-Zaim has provided translation assistance and other help with the Africa higher education project. Francesca Purcell provides editorial assistance. Salina Kopellas, our secretary, makes our office run.

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