Lynch School of Education

Philip G. Altbach

monan professor of higher education

Philip G. Altbach

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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

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Current publications

Philip G. Altbach, International Higher Education: Reflections of Policy and Practice. (Chestnut Hill, MA: Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, 2006). 

Philip G. Altbach and David Engberg, Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs (Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Publishers, 2001).

Philip G. Altbach, Comparative Higher Education (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1998). (Asian edition published by the Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong; Chinese language translation published by the Peoples Education Press, Beijing, China; Japanese language edition published by Tamagawa University Press, Tokyo, Spanish translation published by the Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Philip G. Altbach, Student Politics in America (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1997), revised and updated edition in the "Classics in Higher Education" series
Ernest L. Boyer, Philip G. Altbach and Mary Jean Whitelaw, The Academic Profession: An International Perspective (Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1994)

Philip G. Altbach and Damtew Teferra, eds., African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002).

Philip G. Altbach,ed., The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Middle-Income and Developing Countries (New York: Palgrave, 2002).

Smith, William A., Philip G. Altbach, and Kofi Lomotey, eds., The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education (Revised Edition). Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002).

Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, and D. Bruce Johnstone, eds., In Defense of American Higher Education (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Philip G. Altbach, ed., Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishers, 2000). Spanish translation published by Center for University Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Japanese translation published by Tamagawa University Press, Tokyo, and Chinese translation by Peoples Education Press, Beijing, China.

Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl, and Patricia J. Gumport, eds., American Higher Education in the 21st Century (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

Honors
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