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Center for International Higher Education

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Chicago
A.M., University of Chicago
A.B., University of Chicago

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Comparative education, history, and philosophy of higher education; international education; student political activism; the academic profession; knowledge networks

RECENT PUBLICATIONS/HONORS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Recent Publications

Philip G. Altbach, ed., Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries. New York and London: Routledge, 2010.

Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, and Laura Rumbley, Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution. (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 2009). Also published by UNESCO, Paris.

Philip G. Altbach, Tradition and Transition: The International Imperative in Higher Education. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007). (Also published by the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. Chinese translation by the Peking University Press.)

Laura Rumbley, Ivan Pacheco, and Philip G. Altbach. International Comparison of Academic Salaries: An Exporatory Study. (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 2008.)

Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson, eds., Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007.)

Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balan, eds., Worldclass Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). (Chinese translation by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. Japanese translation by Toshindo Publishers, Tokyo.)

James J.F. Forest and Philip G. Altbach, eds., International Handbook of Higher Education. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2006. 2 volumes.

Honors

Erudite Scholar award from the Government of Kerala, India

Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2009

Distinguished Career Award from the Higher Education Group of the Comparative and International Education Society, 2010

Distinguished Scholar Leader, Fulbright New Century Scholar Program, 2007-2008

Guest Professor at the Graduate School of Education of Peking University, China and the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Listed in
• Who's Who in America (1988 through current edition)
• Who's Who in the East (1986 through current edition)
• Who's Who in Finance and Management (1991 and 1992 editions)
• Who’s Who in Amerian Education (1994 through current edition)

Fellowships from
• Fulbright Foundation (senior research professor in India, and lecturer in Singapore and Malaysia)
• Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Science
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Onwell Foundation of the University of Hong Kong

Professional Activities

Member of the International Advisory Council of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China