News of the Center and the Program in Higher Education

The Center’s latest publication, Women’s Universities and Colleges: An International Handbook, by Francesca Purcell, Robin Matross Helms, and Laura Rumbley has been published. It is available from the Center free of charge to readers in developing countries. A commercial edition will be available from Information Age Publishers. Asian Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Toru Umakoshi, will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in October. This book is also available without cost from the Center to readers in developing countries.

The Center welcomes several new graduate assistants—Natia Janashia, Leslie Bozeman, and Deirdre McMyler. Natia Janashia recently completed a master’s degree at Vanderbilt University as a Humphrey Fellow and is from Georgia (in the former Soviet Union). Leslie Bozeman joins the Center from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in Washington, D.C. Deirdre McMyler most recently worked at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she was international programs coordinator. All three will be working on their doctoral degrees. Alma Maldanado-Maldanado, formerly a CIHE graduate assistant, has completed her doctorate and is now assistant professor of higher education at the University of Arizona. Roberta Malee Bassett has assumed the role of managing editor of Educational Policy. She is completing her doctoral dissertation on American perceptions of GATS and international higher education issues.

Center director Philip Altbach gave a talk on globalization and higher education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Center for University Studies (CESU) at UNAM and CIHE. He will give a series of lectures in India in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune in the fall and will also participate in a conference in Bergen, Norway. He has been appointed to a fellowship by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan in December, 2004. Dr. Damtew Teferra, coeditor in chief of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa, will participate in a conference in Toronto in October and in the conference of the Association of African Universities in South Africa.

We are, finally, pleased to announce several additions to the CIHE family: Roberta Bassett’s daughter, Chaloratana Hall, and Damtew Teferra’s son, Nathan Teferra.