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          PROPHE - Program for Research On Private Higher Education seeks to build knowledge about private higher education around the world. PROPHE focuses on discovery, dissemination and analysis. PROPHE neither represents nor promotes private higher education. Its main mission is scholarship, which, in turn, should inform public discussion and policymaking. Since 2008, as its Ford Foundation grants have terminated, PROPHE has decreased some activities.

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PROPHE posts its global table and separate regional tables on Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The global table covers 117countries.

 

 

Updated national country data files are posted for Russia and the U.S.

 

 

The World Bank’s “Flagship Report” on East Asia includes Levy’s “Private Higher Education in
East Asia: Reality & Policy”
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEASTASIAPACIFIC/Resources/EastAsianPrivateHigherEducation.pdf World Bank. 2010.

 

 

Two visiting professors will be in residence for fall 2010- fall 2011. Dr. Jianru Guo, Associate Prof. at Peking University, will be working on regional private higher education in China. Dr. Baoli Zhou from Hebei Normal University will be working on for-profits in China.

 

 

DOCTORATES: In 2009, Akiyoshi Yonezawa earned his Ph.D. from Tohoku University, Marie Pachuashvili from the Central European University, and Prachayani Praphamontripong from the University at Albany. Marie’s won honors and Prachayani's won a School of Education at Albany Dissertation of the Year award.   Mary Beth Collier defended her proposal on student choice of (U.S.) non-elite private colleges.

 

 

Doctoral Associate Joanna Demurat has won one another scholarship: she is a Fellow for the 2010 National Summer Data Policy Institute. The Institute will deal with research methodologies for NSF and other large national databases.

 

 

UNESCO published its first ever report on private higher education. Levy wrote the lead chapter. http://www.unesco.org/tools/fileretrieve/1eb502a6.pdf. PROPHETs Bernasconi, Mabizela, and Slantcheva were consultants.

 

 

ASHE has accepted a PROPHE volume on the Global Growth of Private Higher Education: National Case Studies. The (PROPHE) authors are Kinser, Levy, Otieno, Praphamontripong, Slantcheva, and Zumeta.

 

 

The special private higher education policy issue of The Journal of Comparative Public Policy is mostly completed and accepted . The issue editors are Levy & Zumeta; PROPHE authors are Bernasconi, Levy, Mabizela, Praphamontripong, and Zumeta, along with Jason Lane.

 

 

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,2010

 

 

International Higher Education will publish a special section on the Decline of Private Higher Education, Fall 2010. PROPHE participants are Demurat, Levy, Praphamontripong, and Slantcheva, along with Lina Uribe. (PROPHE continues to contribute a column to each IHE issue.)

   
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