Table of Contents

INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

News of the Center

We are in the final stages of updating Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs, by David Engberg and Philip G. Altbach and published in 2000 by the Center and Oryx Publishers. The new edition, to be published in 2006, will thoroughly update the original book and provide complete information concerning the infrastructure of the field of higher education around the world. We invite anyone involved with a center or program in higher education who has not already returned our questionnaire to contact Leslie Bozeman (bozemanl@bc.edu), and we will provide an electronic questionnaire.

The Center’s copublishing arrangement with Sense Publishers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is successfully under way. So far, two books have been published-Altbach and Levy’s edited volume on private higher education and the inventory of women’s universities worldwide by Purcell, et al. Books are available at Sense Publishers (www.sensepublishers.com).

The Fulbright New Century Scholars program is fully operational. Center director Philip Altbach is the coordinator for NCS, and 30 senior scholars from around the world are now working on six different projects. Laura Rumbley, CIHE graduate assistant, is providing staff assistance to the NCS initiative. A midterm conference will be held in Cairo, Egypt, in March 2006, to discuss the projects and to meet with senior Egyptian higher education leaders. The first NCS conference was held at Boston College in September.

James J.F. Forest and Philip G. Altbach, eds. International Handbook of Higher Education (2 vols.) (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer) will be published early in 2006. This 1,200-page reference book set will feature research-based chapters on key higher education issues.

Center director Philip Altbach gave keynote addresses at two conferences recently. He spoke at the international section of the national Association for the Study of Higher Education meetings in Philadelphia and at an international conference of the Global University Network for Improvement (GUNI) in Barcelona, Spain. He also presented a paper at the Academic Cooperation Association’s conference in Vienna.

The Journal of Higher Education in Africa’s main editorial office will move to the Dakar, Senegal headquarters of the Council for Social Science Development in Africa (CODESRIA) early in 2006. Assistant Professor (research) Damtew Teferra will continue to provide editorial assistance to the journal. Teferra recently presented papers at a conference in Bergen, Norway and at the GUNI conference in Spain. He also is coauthor of a research report on African higher education for the African Higher Education Partnership.

The Center’s website on corruption in higher education continues under the leadership of Natia Janashia, and the website on international higher education issues (IHEC) is also expanding under the leadership of research associate Liz Reisberg. The Center is also updating our list of higher education journals. Laura Rumbley is coordinating this project.