News of the Center and the Program in Higher Education

Higher Education Journals Directory
A new directory of journals in the field of higher education can be found on the Center’s website. It includes 169 publications from 31 countries on all continents. The journals all specifically focus on higher education. The predominant language of publication is English, but more than a dozen languages are represented. Information concerning place of publication is provided, and there is a link to the websites of many of the journals. The directory dramatically shows the expansion of the field of research and analysis concerning higher education worldwide. We plan to update it, and welcome comments from our readers and especially would like to know about additional journals. Please e-mail Roberta Malee Bassett (bassetro@bc.edu), the directory’s compiler, with your comments and additions.

New Directory of Higher Education Centers and Programs
We are now preparing an updated edition of our 2000 directory of higher education centers and programs. Deirdre McMyler (e-mail: mcmyler@bc.edu) is coordinating the project. The new edition will update information in the 2000 version and will provide data on centers and programs not included earlier. Much has happened in the field of higher education, and the new edition will reflect these changes. We hope that colleagues worldwide will assist us by providing information and responding to our request for information and updates. The 2000 edition is still available on request from the CIHE for those in developing countries and for sale to others by Oryx Press, a division of Greenwood Publishing, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881, USA.

Academic Corruption Initiative
Academic corruption is an increasingly important problem facing many academic systems. The Center will highlight this problem in a new initiative, the Higher Education Corruption Monitor, that will provide information on this topic from sources around the world. Coordinated by Natia Janashia, a graduate assistant in the Center for Higher Education (e-mail: janashia@bc.edu), this project will feature a website focusing on corruption issues, as well as articles in IHE from time to time. Additional information can be found in an article in this issue, “The Higher Education Corruption Monitor.”

Resource Center on International Higher Education
The CIHE is beginning an initiative that will provide summaries of research and information about key issues in international higher education to practitioners in the field. This new program will meet a need articulated by the international education community in the United States for timely and well-organized information about resources and research in selected fields of international education. The specific areas for research will be identified in collaboration with key professionals in the field of international higher education. Partners for this new initiative include the American Council on Education, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and the Institute of International Education. Liz Reisberg will direct this new program (reisberg@rcn.com). Work will begin soon and we expect to have a new website available in a few months. We welcome ideas for topics that should be explored and reported.

Book Series
The CIHE is associated with two book series in higher education. The Routledge Dissertation Series in Higher Education publishes some of the best doctoral dissertations concerning higher education. This series is unique in that it provides an outlet for top-quality dissertations to be published. Among the recently published titles are the following: Michael Nugent, The Transformation of the Student Career: University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden; Peiying Chen, Acting “Otherwise”: The Institutionalizing of Women’s/Gender Studies in Taiwan’s Universities; Sachi Hatakenaka, University-Industry Partnerships in MIT, Cambridge, and Tokyo; and Gregory Cascione, Philanthropists in Higher Education: Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving. Further information about the series can be obtained from Ben Holztman, Editor, Routledge Publishers, 270 Madison Ave., New York NY 10016, USA. E-mail: Benjamin.Holtzman@taylorandfrancis.com; or from series editor Philip G. Altbach.

Higher Education: The Global Context is a new book series published by a new publisher, SensePublishers. Higher education worldwide is in a period of transition, affected by globalization, the advent of mass access, changing relationships between the university and the state, and the new technologies, among others. Higher Education: The Global Context provides cogent analysis and comparative perspectives on these and other central issues affecting postsecondary education worldwide. The series is sponsored by the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College and is edited by Philip G. Altbach. The publisher is SensePublishers, headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. SensePublishers will make all of its books available electronically without cost on the Internet. To obtain paper copies, however, it will be necessary to purchase the print edition. Books will be published in paperback editions and will be priced competitively. For further information about SensePublishers, contact Peter deLiefde, SensePublishers B.V., P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, Netherlands (e-mail: peter.deliefde@sensepublishers.com) or go to the website (http://www.sensepublishers.com).