News of the Center and the Program in Higher Education

Work is concluding on the bibliography on private higher education cosponsored by the Center and the University at Albany’s Program on Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE). This project, which has been coordinated by Alma Maldonado and Hong Zhu at the Center and colleagues at the University at Albany, will result in a bibliographical volume. The work will be part of PROPHE’s website on private higher education as well. Laura Rumbley and Philippa Thiuri have also been helping with the bibliography.

The Journal of Higher Education in Africa, edited by Dr. Damtew Teferra and colleagues at CODESRIA in Senegal, will publish its inaugural issue in late 2003. This issue will be followed by a theme issue focusing on the economics of higher education in Africa. Copies of the journal will be available free of charge to readers in Africa. Please contact the journal (jhea@bc.edu) with any requests.

In November, the Center cosponsored a one-day seminar on accreditation and quality assurance, with a special focus on Taiwan, in cooperation with the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The Center, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, will be organizing a working conference on comparative higher education in spring 2004. Center director Philip G. Altbach recently spoke at a conference on doctoral education at the UNESCO European Center for Higher Education in Bucharest, Romania. He will be a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong in December and will also be a keynote speaker at a conference on higher education at Xiamen University in China.

Dr. Altbach, along with Professor Robert O. Berdahl of the University of Maryland and Professor Patricia Gumport of Stanford University, has completed work on a revised edition of their coedited book, American Higher Education in the 2lst Century. This book will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2004. Arrangements are currently under way for the translation and publication of several Center-sponsored books by the China Ocean University Press in Quingdao, China.

Center graduate assistant Alma Maldonado, currently completing her doctoral dissertation, will join the faculty in higher education at the University of Arizona. Dr. Damtew Teferra recently attended a World Bank-Association of African Universities conference on higher education in Accra, Ghana.