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The 50th Issue of International Higher Education |
NUMBER 50, WINTER 2008 |
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50 Issues—A Dozen Years of Service to Higher Education This is the 50th issue of International Higher Education. Our first issue appeared in the spring of 1995, almost 13 years ago. Our commitment then, as now, is to provide thoughtful analysis of contemporary events in higher education worldwide and information on current developments, especially in countries that do not receive much attention. We have a special concern with the broad issues of globalization and internationalization. Because of our sponsorship by a Jesuit university, we have been interested in issues relating to Catholic and Jesuit education worldwide. Ours has been an effort at network building and information provision. We have focused attention on themes and countries sometimes neglected in discussions of higher education. IHE has from the beginning had a special interest in developing countries—especially on how the developing world can cope with international trends largely determined by the major academic powers. Among the topics we have emphasized over the years have been private higher education (our collaboration with the Program of Research on Private Higher Education-PROPHE at the University at Albany has been especially important), corruption issues, internationalization and globalization, and others. A combination of independent and often critical analysis, focus on central issues for higher education worldwide, and short but incisive articles has proved to be a successful strategy. IHE is aggressively noncommercial. We do not charge for a subscription. We are always happy to provide permission, without any fee, to publications interested in reprinting our articles. Our website is available without charge and is linked with many other websites focusing on higher education. We accept no advertising in any of our publications or on our Web site. We have been able to do this work because of support from the Ford Foundation and from Boston College. International Higher Education is by now recognized as a source of information and analysis worldwide. We mail to readers in 154 countries. IHE is available on our Web site, and is widely used. We have been careful to archive all of the back issues and have indexed them so that researchers and others can have easy access. IHE articles are widely cited in the literature and are often reprinted by journals in many parts of the world. We currently work with publications in Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China that regularly reprint our articles. IHE is translated into Arabic, thanks to Google, and we are working on starting a Chinese language edition in collaboration with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education. We have asked colleagues who have been associated with International Higher Education to reflect on some key trends in higher education in an international perspective over the past decade of our publication. Several of these articles follow. Additional contributions will be published in the coming issues. We look forward to our 100th issue! Philip G. Altbach, Editor [Online] Available: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number50/p2_Editorial.htm
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