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INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

News of the Center

The Center for International Higher Education continues to be a highly visible source of information on higher education. Google, Yahoo, and other database managers place the CIHE at the top of their selections for themes like ¡°international higher education.¡± For example, Google currently places the CIHE first among 262,000,000 listings. Articles from International Higher Education are also prominently featured.

Work has been completed on the 2006 revision of our inventory of higher education programs and institutes worldwide. Leslie Bozeman, Laura Rumbley, and Natia Janashia of the Center staff have provided leadership on this project. We hope to publish the book version in the coming months. Final editing has been completed for our book on research universities in developing and middle-income countries. The book's title is The Struggle to Compete: Building World-Class Universities in Asia and Latin America; it is edited by Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balan. The book is under consideration by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It will be published in Chinese by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press. The China Ocean University Press is publishing six of Philip Altbach's books in Chinese. Three of the titles were released at a ceremony in Qingdao attended by Philip Altbach during his recent visit to China. He also spoke at universities in Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Dr. Roberta Bassett, who received her PhD in higher education from Boston College and was a CIHE graduate assistant, has been appointed lecturer in the School of Management at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. She will specialize on international higher education. Dr. Damtew Teferra has been promoted to associate research professor at BC—he directs the CIHE's Africa initiative and recently attended a conference on international education at the University of Bergen in Norway. He will travel to Tanzania for a meeting on higher education research in Africa in August. The CIHE welcomes David Fields as a doctoral student and graduate assistant.

CIHE Web Sites

The CIHE family of Web sites offers current analysis of key issues in higher education worldwide. All can be easily accessed through the main CIHE site (www.bc/edu/cihe). The International Network on Higher Education in Africa (INHEA) provides comprehensive information on research on African higher education, the names of researchers working in the field, news of current developments, and related information. The Higher Education Corruption Monitor focuses on all aspects of corrupt practices in higher education worldwide. It provides a compilation of information from many sources as well as background research on this theme. The International Higher Education Clearinghouse (IHEC) focuses on international issues in higher education—in particular on internationalization, world student flows, transnational higher education, and related fields. The CIHE also compiled a comprehensive list of journals in the field of higher education worldwide—this listing, which includes contact information, is also on our Web site.

New Listserv Will Provide Current CIHE Information and Access to IHE

We are launching a new listserv that will provide the higher education community with information concerning the CIHE, International Higher Education, and related publications. We will provide you with current information concerning new IHE issues and new publications. Please visit the following URL to sign up for the listserv: http://www.bc.edu/bc.org/avp/soe/cihe/listserv.html.