News of the Center and the Program in Higher Education

The Center's new initiative on women's higher education, led by Francesca Purcell and Robin Helms, is currently engaged in a circulating a questionnaire worldwide to collect detailed information on the number, scope, and nature of women's colleges and unviersities worldwide. The Journal of Higher Education in Africa, cosponsored by the Center and CODESRIA in Senegal, is moving toward publishing its first issue. The editors-in-chief are Dr. Damtew Tefferra, research assistant professor at the Center and Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, the director of CODESRIA. We move toward completion of our book on the future of Asian universities. The book will be coedited by Philip G. Altbach and Toru Umakoshi, and will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries, edited by Philip G. Altbach, will be published in a Spanish translation by the Universidad Autonomy Metropolitana in Mexico City. Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Hong Zhu are completing work on a reference/bibliography volume on private higher education in international perspective. This project, carried out in collaboration with the Program on Research in Higher Education (PROPHE) at the State University at Albany, will be published at the end of the summer. PROPHE continues its research on private higher education.

Center Publications Available
Several CIHE books remain available without cost to those interested in them in developing countries. These publications include:

International Higher Education remains available on the Center's website. We have updated our index so it is possible to find all of the articles printed in IHE in the past--the index is organized by topic and country for easy access. In addition, it is possible to receive IHE regularly by e-mail. Please sign up for this service from our homepage.