In cooperation with Prof. Toru Umakoshi of Nagoya University in Japan, the Center has received a grant from the Toyota Foundation and additional support from the Japan Foundation and the Ford Foundation to organize an inquiry into the historical and contemporary development of higher education in selected Asian countries. This project will result in a book on the theme of the past and future of Asian universities.

A conference relating to it will be held in December, 2002 at Nagoya University in Japan. The Center continues its work in cooperation with the Program on Research on Private Higher Education at the State University of New York at Albany on developing an Internet-based resource center on private higher education. This work is being coordinated by Alma Maldonado-Maldonado at BC and Yisa Cao at SUNY-Albany. This project will involve key researchers in analyzing national concerns and preparing a book based on these analyses.

Damtew Teferra and Philip G. Altbach are beginning work on the establishing of a Journal on Higher Education in Africa with the assistance of the Ford Foundation. Yoshikazu Ogawa, a doctoral candidate in higher education and formerly a research associate of the Center, has become associate professor of education at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Hala Taweel, doctoral candidate, continues her work with the University of the Middle East Project. Alma Maldonado-Maldonado, doctoral candidate and fellow of the Mexican Science Council, has coedited a book of critiques and analysis of international higher education reports in Spanish.