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PROPHE in CIES Conference 2007 (Reported by Prachayani Praphamontripong) PROPHE ran two tandem panels at the 51st Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in Baltimore, Maryland, during March 25-April 1, 2007. The panels' theme addressed "New Faces of Private Higher Education" in two regions with salient private growth in higher education: Asia and Latin America. The Asian panel
was chaired by Jargalmaa Tsendjav, with Layheng Ting
as discussant, both PROPHE doctoral research associates. Daniel C.
Levy, PROPHE director, discussed commonalities and distinctiveness
of the new faces of Indian private higher education in international perspectives.
Jing Lin of the University of Maryland illustrated private expansion
and conflicts and competition between private and public higher education
in China. Prachayani Praphamontripong, PROPHE doctoral research
associate, explored institutional differentiation and diversity within
Thai private higher education with a particular focus on the recent emerging
subsector.
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(Left
to right) Layheng Ting, Prachayani Praphamontripong, Jargalmaa Tsendjav,
Jing Lin, and Daniel Levy |
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Audiences
in the Asian panel
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| Chaired by Gonzalo Zapata, a doctoral student of the Comparative and International Education Policy Program (CIEPP), University at Albany-SUNY, with Daniel C. Levy as discussant, the Latin American panel presented three cases. Jose Miguel Salazar Zegers, visiting Humphrey Fellow, Penn State University, talked about consequences of privatization in higher education for disciplinary diversity and enrollment in Chile. Ancell Scheker, also a CIEPP doctoral student, applied literature on different types of private growth in higher education to primary-secondary levels, using the case of the Dominican Republic. Lastly, Larry Wolff presented the work he and Juan Carlos Navarro, Inter-American Development Bank, have done on new financial aid mechanisms for Latin America, specifying impacts on the private sector of higher education. | |
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Daniel Levy, Ancell Scheker, Larry Wolff, Jose Miguel Salazar Zegers,
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The panel's atmosphere
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