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PROPHE will shortly be updating its international data table and providing regional tables on Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
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Joanna Demurat and Prachayani Praphamontripong , PROPHE Doctoral Research Associates, each received an Arvid J. Burke Scholarship (photo). Demurat has also won a $10,000 scholarship from the Association for Institutional Research. Lina Uribe has won a Ford Foundation summer award for a Teacher’s College seminar on higher education.
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Dr. Julio Sanchez, Vice-Chancellor for Research and Institutional Relations at INTEC (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo) - a leading private university in Dominican Republic - visited PROPHE headquarters on May 13, 2009.
PROPHE group photo with Dr. Sanchez at EAPS luncheon. (Left to right) Lina Uribe, Prachayani Praphamontripong,Daniel Levy, Julio Sanchez, Joanna Demurat, Chunyue Zhang, and Paulina Berrios.
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PROPHE Director Levy gave a presentation on global context for the European accreditation conference in Vienna, May 7-8, 2009
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Pawal Agarwal, Indian official and scholar who has visited and advised PROPHE, has published Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future, with Sage, 2009; chapter 3 is Private Higher Education.
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A PROPHE panel has been accepted for the 2009 ASHE conferfence. The topic is the Decline of Private Higher Education?? Particpants are PROPHEts Demurat, Levy, Praphamontripong, Slantcheva, and Uribe.
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At the 2009 CIES conference in Charleston, SC PROPHE Doctoral Research Associate Joanna Demurat gave a presentation on The first-second choices: What methods do Polish private higher education institutions use to attract students? Daniel Levy presented Yingxia Cao's paper on China and was the panel discussant. The panel was entitled Higher Education Expansion in a Marketization Economy. Demurat chaired the panel. |
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PROPHE Director Daniel C. Levy gave a presentation on Global Private Higher Education: Tracking and Explaining Phenomenal Expansion to the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California-Berkeley, Feb 19, 2009.
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Levy is a co-author on a UNESCO team producing a paper on private higher education for the July UNESCO World Conference on higher education. PROPHETs Bernasconi, Mabizela, and Slantcheva are among the project’s consultants.
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Akiyoshi Yonezawa has just earned his PhD in Education from Tohoku Univesity on Feb 18 2009.His dissertation is entitled "Research on Public Policies for Private Universities in the Process of Realizing Mass Higher Education in Japan". |
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A special issue of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa(JHEA), volume 5, numbers 2&3, is now published on the growth of private provision in Africa. Special issue editors are PROPHEts Mahlubi Mabizela,Daniel Levy,and Wycliffe Otieno.
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Private Higher Education: Global Trends and Indian Perspectives is now published by Shipra. The book’s editors are PROPHEts Asha Gupta, Daniel Levy, and K.P. Powar.
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The newest working paper is "Universities and Fields of Study in Argentina: A Public-Private Comparison from the Supply and Demand Side"by Marcelo Rabossi.. The 2008 working papers included Praphamontripong, Prachayani. 2008 "Inside Thai Private Higher Education: Exploring Private Growth in International Context”. |
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PROPHE presented a panel at the Associate for the Study of Higher Education, Jacksonville FL, Nov 2008 on “Between Elite and Non-Elite: Exploring Private ‘Semi-Elite’ Universities", with national case studies on Mexico, Poland, and Thailand, as well as a global overview.Click here to see the details. |
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Levy’s 2008 international lectures included a Nov. presentation in Malaysia and a Jan. presentation in Israel. He also participated in conferences at International Finance Corporation Conference in May and an American Enterprise Institute Conference in June. |
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PROPHE
ran two panels at the annual Comparative International
& Comparative Education Society, Teacher's College, NYC, March
2008. One focuses on Asia, the other on Latin America, both on the
access and equity roles of "demand-absorbing" private
higher education. For the details,
please click "here." |
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See enhanced International Data table, now with 92 countries, soon to be > 100. Click here.
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Both the extensive Japanese and New Zealand cases have been updated through 2007 and posted at http://www.albany.edu/dept/eaps/prophe/data/national.html. |
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Special private higher education policy issue of Journal of Comparative Public Policy is mostly completed. |
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