PROPHE: PRIVATIZATION: HIGHER EDUCATION AND BEYOND

For this Spring 2006 semester, PROPHE Director Daniel Levy teaches a special course seminar on Privatization in Higher Education, featuring key literature and invited speakers from the World Bank, IFC, Laureate Inc, PROPHE Prof. Kinser, and others. This special course explores "twin privatizations," including private higher education and partial privatization of public institutions as well as the inter-relationship between the two.

The course scope is global, focusing on various countries represented by fifteen CIEPP doctoral students from Argentina, Cambodia, Chile, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mongolia, Thailand, and the United States. Cross-Countries Grid Analysis is discussed through the course's thematic questions such as 1) the causes, extent, claims, obstacles, and evaluations of privatization; 2) distinctiveness and overlap of private and public higher education in terms of finance, governance, and mission; and 3) inter-sectoral partnership, US influence, and international dynamics.

For the last session on May 10, 2006, Dr. Kemal Gürüz, the former President of the Turkish Council of Higher Education, and the founder of collaborative degree programs between SUNY campuses and Turkish universities, talked about the development of private higher education in Turkey.

Dr. Harry Patrinos, World Bank Economist, presented his study on, "Education Contracting: Scope of Future Research," April 26, 2006.

Also participating in the class seminar,

Dr. Gilbert Valverde, SUNY and CIEPP professor, made an observation on pedagogical movement regarding quantitative evaluation.

Mary Beth Collier, Executive Assistant to the Provost at SUNY New Paltz, introduced Dr. Steven Poskanzer,

President of SUNY New Paltz, to the class, April 19, 2006.

Dr. Steven Poskanzer gave a speech on "Higher Education Law: Faculty in Public and Private Institutions."

Dr. Alan Wagner, Chair of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies University at Albany - SUNY, talked about "Privatization of Finance in Public Higher Education: Experience in the OECD region," April 5, 2006.

PROPHE Affiliate and Head of PROPHE Regional Center for Latin America, Dr. Pablo Landoni gave a presentation on, "New Private / Public Dynamics in Uruguay's Higher Education System:

Does Isomorphism Explain Something?," March 29, 2006.

PROPHE Collaborating Scholar & SUNY Professor Kevin Kinser presented his research on

the transformation of for-profit higher education, March 15, 2006.

(Middle) Dr. Joseph Duffey, Senior Vice President of Laureate Education, Inc., and Dr. Suzanne Roddis, Manager of EdInvest, a service of the World Bank, visited the class on March 1, 2006.

Dr. Suzanne Roddis gave a presentation on, "Private Sector Opportunities in Promoting Education: The Indian and Global Pictures."

Dr. Pedro Teixeira, Assistant Professor at University of Porto, Portugal, and PROPHE Affiliate, presented his research on "Public and Private Higher Education: Competition or Complementarity?" February 22, 2006.

(left) PROPHE Affiliate Dr. Pablo Landoni from Uruguay participated in the seminar.

(right) Also a guest speaker of the course, Landoni discussed about the New Institutionalism and Isomophism between public and private sectors and within the subsectors, February 15, 2006.

Dr. Masaaki Ida from Japanese National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation talked to the class, February 8, 2006.

PROPHE Director Daniel Levy introduced concepts and themes of the course.

Program for Research on Private Higher Education
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PRIVATIZATION: HIGHER EDUCATION AND BEYOND For this Spring 2006 semester, PROPHE Director Daniel Levy teaches a special course seminar on Privatization in Higher Education, featuring key literature and invited speakers from the World Bank, IFC, Laureate Inc, PROPHE Prof. Kinser, and others. This special course explores "twin privatizations," including private higher education and partial privatization of public institutions as well as the inter-relationship between the two. The course scope is global, focusing on various countries represented by fifteen CIEPP doctoral students from Argentina, Cambodia, Chile, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mongolia, Thailand, and the United States. Cross-Countries Grid Analysis is discussed through the course's thematic questions such as 1) the causes, extent, claims, obstacles, and evaluations of privatization; 2) distinctiveness and overlap of private and public higher education in terms of finance, governance, and mission; and 3) inter-sectoral partnership, US influence, and international dynamics.

For the last session on May 10, 2006, Dr. Kemal Gürüz, the former President of the Turkish Council of Higher Education, and the founder of collaborative degree programs between SUNY campuses and Turkish universities, talked about the development of private higher education in Turkey.


	Director: Daniel C. Levy