Philip G. Altbach
Director of the Center for International Higher Education, the J. Donald Monan SJ Professor of Higher Education
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Philip G. Altbach is the director of the Center for International Higher Education and the J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education in the Lynch School of Education. Dr. Altbach has extensive experience in the field of comparative and international higher education. He is editor of The International Academic Profession (1997: Carnegie), co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century (1997: Johns Hopkins, revised edition in press), former editor of the ASHE journal, The Review of Higher Education, and the editor of International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia (2 volumes). He is author of Comparative Higher Education,Higher Education in the Third World, and other books. His most recent book is Asian Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He co-edited In Defense of American Higher Education with Patricia Gumport and Bruce Johnstone, published in 2001. Professor Altbach holds a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. His research interests include comparative education, history and philosophy of higher education, international education, student political activism, the academic profession, and knowledge networks.
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Liz Reisberg
Research Associate
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Liz Reisberg is a Research Associate at the Center for International Higher Education and part-time faculty in the Higher Education Administration program. In addition to her contributions to research and projects at CIHE she provides consulting services to universities, governments and international agencies. Her professional experience and research have focused on internationalization; issues affecting access and equity; teaching and learning; quality assurance; and higher education reform in Latin America. She earned her PhD at Boston College focusing her dissertation research on new strategies for quality assurance for higher education in Argentina.

Damtew Teferra
Coordinator of the INHEA
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Damtew Teferra is the former director for Africa and the Middle East of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, based at the Institute of International Education in New York. He was founding (former) Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. He is author of Scientific Communication in African Universities: External Assistance and National Needs (2003, RoutledgeFarmer) and lead editor of both the award-winning book African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook(2003, Indiana University Press) and African Higher Education: The International Dimension (2008, BC and AAU). He established the International Network for Higher Education in Africa. Damtew holds a Ph.D. from Boston College, USA, an M.Phil. from University of Stiriling, Scotland, and a B.Sc. from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

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Ivan Pacheco
Graduate Research Assistant
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Iván Pacheco has a law degree from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, a masters degree in sociology of law from the International Institute for Sociology of Law in Spain and a masters in higher education from Boston College where he is currently pursuing his PhD. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford and an intern at LASPAU-Harvard. Iván has over ten years of higher education experience including his roles as Director of Quality Assurance for the Colombian Ministry of Education, acting Vice Minister of Higher Education, and board member for more than ten Colombian public universities. He represented his country at the UNESCO-OECD Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross Border Higher Education meetings and at RIACES, the Ibero-American Network of Quality Assurance Agencies. His publications include: International Comparison of Academic Salaries: An exploratory Study (with L. E. Rumbley and P.G. Altbach, 2008); Educación culpable, educación redentora: Evolución legislativa de la educación superior en Colombia (2004), and Nuevo Compendio de Normas sobre la Educación Superior (2001).

Yukiko Shimmi
Graduate Research Assistant
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Yukiko Shimmi is a doctoral student and a research assistant at the CIHE where she contributes to the design and content of the center's website and online database. Yukiko earned her masters' degree in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota with a Fulbright scholarship. She also holds a Bachelors' of Arts in Human Relations from Keio University in Japan. At the University of Minnesota, she worked for International Student and Scholar Services and contributed to programing and support for international and domestic students. Previously she worked for two Japanese universities in student services and academic affairs with both domestic and international students. Ms. Shimmi's article, "The Decline of Japanese International Students," was published in IHE (issue #64, Summer 2011).

Dave Stanfield
Graduate Research Assistant
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Dave Stanfield is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Higher Education and doctoral student in the Boston College Higher Education Administration program. Dave’s international experience includes five years as the Director of Student Activities and First-Year Programs at Carnegie Mellon University’s international branch campus in Doha, Qatar. His primary research interests include international higher education (specifically in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Asia), student affairs, and leadership education. Dave earned a master’s degree in College Student Personnel from Miami University in Ohio with a concentration in college student cultures and higher education administration. 

Salina Kopellas
Administrative Secretary of the CIHE
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In her 12th year of service to Boston College, Salina Kopellas is the administrative secretary to the director of the Center for International Higher Education. She manages the Center’s grants and database, and facilitates the editing and dissemination of the Journal of International Higher Education. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as the administrative secretary to the dean of the Lynch School of Education.

Edith Hoshino
Publications Editor

Edith Hoshino is author of Women in America and coeditor of German Feminism: Politics and Literature. She was managing editor ofEducational Policy for two decades.