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INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

News of the Center

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America, coedited by Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Bal?n, has been published in a Korean translation. It has been published in Chinese by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, and arrangements have been made for translated editions in Spanish and Japanese. We have focused on expanding CIHE publications in other languages. IHE continues to appear in Arabic as well as some of our other publications, thanks to the Google Corporation. Philip Altbach's coedited book on American higher education (Giao Duc Dai Hoc Hoa Ky) has been published in Vietnamese by Nha Xuat Ban Giao Duc in Hanoi, Vienam. We are working on starting a Chinese edition of IHE in collaboration with the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Philip G. Altbach gave a keynote paper at the conference on world-class universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He also participated in the Beijing Forum and gave a talk at the Institute of Higher Education at Nanjing University, all in China. He spoke at Seoul National University's annual research conference and at Yonsei University in Korea. In Saudi Arabia he will keynote at a conference on higher education research in the Arab region in February and in Berlin will participate in a symposium on international higher education research for the European Association for International Education.

Liz Reisberg, CIHE research associate, has received her doctorate. Her dissertation on quality assurance in Argentina was successfully defended in December. Gilton Eun-Jun Lee, the CIHE's Web expert, also defended his doctoral dissertation in October. Congratulations to Dr. Reisberg and Dr. Lee.

Our Africa Web site, the International Network on Higher Education in Africa (INHEA), is currently being updated. We plan on commissioning "editorial essays" from experts to add to the site soon.

The Center has hosted two visiting scholars during the fall term—Jane Knight from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Anthony Welch from the University of Sydney, Australia. Both are 2007—2008 Fulbright New Century Scholars. A day-long symposium on access and equity in higher education was cosponsored by the Center, the Monan Chair in Higher Education, and Fulbright New Century Scholars on November 30, 2007. The event featured talks by Knight and Welch along with Prof. Claire Callender of the University of London, and keynotes from Bruce Johnstone, distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the NCS Distinguished Scholar Leader, and by Prof. Bridget Long, Harvard education economist.