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INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

New CIHE Publications

The International Handbook of Higher Education, coedited by James Forest and Philip G. Altbach, has been published in Springer Publishers in the Netherlands. This 1,100-page, 2-volume set includes 55 chapters, 19 of which focus on comparative themes such as the history of higher education, finance, globalization and internationalization, teaching and learning, the role of technology, and others. The rest of the chapters cover countries and regions. Further information can be obtained from Springer Publishers, POB 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, the Netherlands (www.springeronline.com). A limited number of paperback copies are available without cost to readers and institutions in developing countries from the Center. Please write to the Center to request a copy.

The Center has reissued Comparative Higher Education, by Philip G. Altbach, originally published in 1997 by Ablex. The book consists of 13 essays on such themes as the university as center and periphery, student political activism, higher education in China and India, foreign students and scholars, the role of higher education in newly industrializing countries, and others. A limited number of copies are available without cost to readers and institutions in developing countries. Please write to the Center to request a copy.

News of the Center

Work is concluding on the revisions of Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs. This volume provides a comprehensive listing of centers and institutes focusing on higher education as well as a listing of academic programs in higher education. More than 150 institutions in some 25 countries are included. Leslie Bozeman is coordinating this project. We hope to have the inventory published during the summer of 2006.

Empires of Knowledge and Development: The Roles of Research Universities in Developing Countries, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balan, is the result of the CIHE’s research project on research universities in developing countries. A Chinese-language edition will be published by Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Philip Altbach will be participating in several conferences in China in May. He is speaking at Zhezhang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and China Ocean University in Qingdao. He will also work with the senior administration of the Catholic University of Chile in August.

Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
The Fulbright NCS Program, which brings together scholars from 21 countries to do collaborative research on higher education, recently held its midterm conference in Cairo, Egypt, in cooperation with the American University of Cairo. In addition to discussions of the research projects, NCS and AUC organized a one-day meeting with Egyptian higher education leaders to discuss common higher education themes. Six research groups are continuing to work collaboratively. A final working conference is scheduled for October in Paris, France, in collaboration with UNESCO.

International Network for Higher Education in Africa—An Update

The International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA) was launched a year or so ago at the Center for International Higher Education. It is directed by Damtew Teferra. The Network is being used by scholars, experts, practitioners, policymakers, funding organizations, faculty, students, and others interested in research and development in African higher education around the world.

During the last half decade, interest in higher education in Africa has dramatically increased. The CIHE has helped sponsor the comprehensive book on African higher education, African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Indiana University Press, 2003). The Center also colaunched the Journal of Higher Education in Africa in collaboration with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Senegal. The launching of INHEA is the outgrowth of several years of experience, expertise, and networking.

This web-based Network (available at http://www.bc.edu/inhea) features institutions, centers, and programs around the world that are engaged in higher education activities with relevance to Africa. It also provides a list of experts and researchers (and their contact addresses) engaged in higher education in Africa, as well as current and upcoming higher education conferences and meetings that have relevance to Africa.

The Network provides the most comprehensive and regularly updated bibliographical information of published articles and doctoral dissertations on African higher education. The sources are conveniently organized by country, region, and theme. Brief profiles of higher education for all 54 countries on the continent are also featured.

Recently the website has been revamped. Also introduced is a new section that lists journals and bulletins of higher education on Africa and provides, among other material, mission statements, style guidelines, and correspondence addresses. The intention is to include more information, data, and news as the website becomes more popular. Currently, the site generates more than a thousand hits a month. The Network is now considering publishing, subject to flow of articles, an online occasional non-peer-reviewed bulletin on higher education in Africa.

INHEA continues to be supported by the Ford Foundation. For further information, please contact Damtew Teferra (teferra@bc.edu).