Director: Daniel C. Levy

PROPHE Activities & Events:

Conference Participation

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PROPHE

PROPHE had a major presence at the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Philadelphia during November 16-19, 2005. Generously supported by the Ford Foundation, PROPHE, led by PROPHE Director Daniel Levy, brought the total of 19 international scholars for participation and presentations. See PROPHEts in ASHE Conference 2005 for reports and photos.

Seven PROPHEts, including three doctoral students, gave papers at a Xi'an International University/PROPHE conference in Xi'an China, Dec 14-16, 2004. Financial support from Xi'an and from the Ford Foundation/China, as well as PROPHE.

Five PROPHEts attended a CHER privatization conference held at CHEPS, University Twente, the Netherlands, September 2004 (See photo above.)

PROPHEcee, the Regional Center of PROPHE for Eastern & Central Europe, held a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 20-21, focused on legitimacy in regional private higher education, along with a special half-day session with Bulgarian government and institutional officials. Some papers from the conference are now being joined with solicited papers for book volume that will be published by Palgrave/Macmillan, ed. Slantcheva & Levy.

PROPHE and other doctoral colleagues interested in private higher education in the Ford Foundation's conference, "International Higher Education: New Scholars, Emerging Issues," on April 2 2004.

PROPHE participated actively in and helped finance the conference "Advancing the Institutional Research Agenda in Education." The international conference covered all educational levels. Four papers were specifically on private higher education. PROPHE also ran its own meetings with its core members who were present, foreign visitors, and doctoral students in the Department of Educational Administration & Policy Studies. September 18-23, 2002 at the University at Albany, SUNY.

PROPHE conference on the "Worldwide Growth of Private Higher Education." Public presentations were given by PROPHE's Director and three Collaborating Scholars on March 21 2002, University at Albany, SUNY. PROPHE also held a few days of separate discussions focused on its agenda and methodologies.

Director (Levy)

"Global Tendencies in Private Higher Education: Perspectives on the Far East." Conference for network of scholars on Far East private higher education,Tokyo, December 2006.

"China's Place in the Development of Private Higher Education." Talks in Shanghai and in Hangzhou, December 2006.

"Understanding What Private Higher Education's Surge Means for Global Development." Presentation at the World Bank conference on development, Beijing, January 2006.

Several PROPHE UA presentations, 2005-2006.

"Cross-regional Patterns," at a Presidential panel of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Philadelphia, November 2005.

"México en contexto global de la educación superior." Seminar in Higher Education Policy in Process of Internationalization. Ciudad Juárez, México, October 2005.

"Challenges & Opportunities for Research on Private Higher Education." Lecture at Peking University, School of Education, Institute of Economics. Beijing, December 17, 2004. (Also, extensive consultation with Peking University students.)

"Opening Remarks: Private Higher Education and PROPHE." Lecture for the Xi'an International Conference on Private Higher Education." Xi'an International University, Xi'an, China, December 14-15, 2004.

"The Private Fit to Salient Higher Education Tendencies." Keynote lecture for the Xi'an International Conference on Private Higher Education." Xi'an International University, Xi'an, China, December 14-15, 2004.

"Misconceptions and Where China Fits." Closing lecture for the Xi'an International Conference on Private Higher Education." Xi'an International University, Xi'an, China, December 14-15, 2004.

"Analyzing Private Higher Education." Lecture at the Research Institute for Higher Education. Hiroshima, December 8, 2004.

"Studying Private Higher Education in East Asia." Presentation given at the National Institute for Education Policy Research, workshop on the Future of Private Higher Education in East Asia, Tokyo, December 7, 2004.

"Fit or Leadership: Private Higher Education and Global Higher Education." Lecture invited by the Association of Private Universities, Tokyo, December 6, 2004.

"PROPHE, Partners, and Private Universities." Opening remarks for meeting with the Association of Private Universities, Tokyo, December 6, 2004.

Revising the Inter-American Development Bank Higher Education Strategy. Meeting of experts at the IDB, Washington, DC., April 23, 2004.

Co-organizer of Ford Foundation conference "International Higher Education: New Scholars, Emerging Issue," for doctoral students and faculty at Ford-funded international higher education programs, including CIEPP and PROPHE students, April 2, 2004, NYC (with Alan Wagner, took seven UA students to the conference).

"Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Economy: New Private-Public Mixes." A keynote address for the World Bank conference "Knowledge Economy Forum III: Improving Competitiveness Through a Knowledge-Based Economy," Budapest, March 23-26, 2004.

"Latin American Education: A Balanced Assessment," address for the World Bank conference for Eastern & Central Europe and Central Asia. March 2004.

Several PROPHE presentations, 2003-2004.

Joint preparation of the Module on the State and Reform in Tertiary Education. With Jamil Salmi. World Bank conference on Strategic Choices in Tertiary Education Reform." Paris, June 2003.

"How Key Justifications for State Action in Tertiary Education Relate to Changing Realities." World Bank conference on Strategic Choices in Tertiary Education Reform." Paris, June 2003.

The Role of the State in a Pluralist Model." World Bank conference on Strategic Choices in Tertiary Education Reform." Paris, June 2003.

"Tertiary Education in Futurstan." Co-presentation with Jamil Salmi, World Bank conference on Strategic Choices in Tertiary Education Reform." Paris, June 2003.

"Where Reality Defies the New Institutionalism: Implications from Private Higher Education's Global Growth. " Paper presented at U. Albany conference on institutionalism and education, September 19-21, 2002.

"The Role of the State in a Pluralist Model." One of Levy's two presentations at the World Bank conference on Strategic Choices for Tertiary Education Reform, Paris, June 2002.

"Profits and Profitability," Human Science Research Council, Keynote address for the conference Understanding Private Higher Education, Benoni South Africa, April 2002.

"The Public-Private Interface in the Predominant Global Agenda for Higher Education Reform," Keynote Address for the Inter-American Development Bank seminar on higher education, Fortaleza Brazil, March 2002.

"Challenges of Doing Research on Private Higher Education," Keynote address for the Human Science Research Council conference on Private Higher Education in South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August 2001.

"Pluralist Perspectives in Higher Education." Keynote address for the conference on Global Challenges and National Responses, Bogota, June 2001.

"The New Accountability in Higher Education." Keynote address at the Peking University conference on the Economics of Education, May 2001, Beijing.

"Comparative Perspectives on China's Private Higher Education Growth." Presentation at Peking University's Higher Education Center, May 2001, Beijing. Similar presentation at Xiamen University's Center on Higher Education, Xiamen, May 2001.

Collaborating Scholars

Andres Bernasconi

"Defining 'privateness' and 'publicness' in Latin American higher education: the role of legislation," ASHE Conference 2005, Philadelphia. November 2005.

"Organizational Diversity across Private and Public Universities in Chile." Paper presentation at the Mini-Conference on Private Higher Education, PROPHE, Albany, NY, March 2002.

"Organizational Diversity in Chilean Higher Education: Faculty Regimes in Private and Public Universities." Paper presented at conference "Advancing the Institutional Research Agenda in Education," University at Albany, SUNY, NY, Sept 2002.

Kevin Kinser

"Regional variation among accredited for-profit institutions of higher education". Invited Presidential Session. Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting. November 11, 2004. Kansas City, MO

"Sources of legitimacy in the private sector: For-profit higher education in the United States". Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting. November 4, 2004. Kansas City, MO

" A Profile of Regionally-Accredited For-Profit Institutions of Higher Education". Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting. November 14, 2003. Portland, OR.

"What the Research Says about the Virtual University. Presentation at Technology, Learning, and Intellectual Development: Challenges at the Crossroads of the Education Revolution. Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Baltimore, MD, November 3, 2001.

"Faculty at the University of Phoenix: A Study of Non-Traditional Roles. Paper presented at The Association for the Study of Higher Education annual meeting, Richmond, VA, November 17, 2001,

"Faculty at Private For-Profit Universities: The University of Phoenix as a New Model?" Paper presentation at the Mini-Conference on Private Higher Education, PROPHE, Albany NY, March 2002.

Mahlubi Mabizela

" Whose Higher Education is it Anyway? Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships in the Provision of Higher Education". CHER 17th annual conference, Public-Private Dynamics in Higher Education. University of Twente, Enschede, 17-19 September 2004.

" Recounting the State of Private Higher Education in South Africa". Policy Forum on Private Higher Education in Africa organised by International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU) and Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). Accra, Ghana, 2-3 November 2004.

"Historical Overview of the Development of Private Higher Education in South Africa" Human Sciences Research Council Colloquium on Understanding Private Higher Education in South Africa, Benoni, South Africa, April 9-10, 2002.

Snejana Ivanova Slantcheva

Organized (and presented at) the Sofia Conference, "In Search of Legitimacy: Issues of Quality and Recognition in Central and Eastern European Private Higher Education", June 20-21, 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria

Presented at the 26 EAIR (European Association for Institutional Research) Forum in Barcelona, Spain, September 4-8, 2004

Presented at the CHER's (Center for Higher Education Research) 16 Annual Conference at CHEPS, University of Twente, The Netherlands, September 16-20, 2004 Snejana: titles of your conference papers.

Dmitry Suspitsin

Between a Rock of the State and a Hard Place of the Market: Sources of Sponsorship and Legitimacy in Russian Non-State Higher Education. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting. November, 2004. Kansas City, MO

Organizational Legitimacy of Russian Non-State Higher Education: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications. Paper presented at the international conference "In Search of Legitimacy: Issues of Quality and Recognition in Central and Eastern European Private Higher Education," Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2004

Participanted in the panel discussion at the workshop "International Higher Education: New Scholars, Emerging Issues," The Ford Foundation, New York City, April, 2004

Clinging to the Hand of the Parent: Russian Private Higher Education Alliances to State-Run Organizations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Division J, Postsecondary Education in San Diego, CA, April 2004

The Founding of Russian Private Universities. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Salt Lake City, UH, March 2004

"Russia's Private Higher Education: The Quest for Legitimacy" Paper presentation at the Mini-Conference on Private Higher Education, PROPHE, Albany, NY, March 2002.

"Private Universities in Russia: Exploring Public Opinion Regarding These Institutions' Organizational Legitimacy," CIES (Comparative & International Education Society), Orlando, FL, March 2002.

"Exploring the Complexity of Organizational Legitimacy in the Context of Russian Private Higher Education". Paper presented at conference "Advancing the Institutional Research Agenda in Education," University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, September 2002.

"Russian Private Higher Education: On the Edge of its Organizational Legitimacy" ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education), Sacramento, CA, November 2002.

Fengqiao Yan

"Blurring Boundaries between Public and Private Higher Education Institutions," International Conference on Higher Education Reform and Development, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, October 25-27, 2001.

"School Choice and Social Contexts in the United States," Sino-US Seminar on Non-governmental Education, Shanghai, China, May 27-29, 2002.

Affiliates

Pablo Landoni

Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) spring 2006 public policy roundtables series "International Trends in Higher Education Policies: the Increasing Relevance of Markets." February 2006 Ithaca, NY.

"Accreditation and Private Higher Education Development: A comparison between Argentina, Chile and Uruguay" Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education. November 2005 Philadelphia, PA

"The Changing Public - Private Mix in Uruguay`s Higher Education System" Program for Research on Private Higher Education - Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany. March 2005 Albany, NY

"Higher Education in Uruguay" in "Privatization and Privatization: Private Higher Education in India and Uruguay" Program for Research on Private Higher Education - Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany. January 2003 Albany, NY.

Molly Lee

"The Changing Academic Workplace in Malaysia and Singapore", Symposium on The Academic Profession in a Changing Environment in Bellagio, Italy, May 21-25, 2001.

"Private Higher Education in Malaysia: Expansion, Diversification, and Consolidation", 2nd Regional Seminar on Private Higher Education, Thailand, June 20-22, 2001.

"Global Trends, National Policies and Institutional Responses: Restructuring Higher Education", XXth Comparative Education Society Conference in London, U.K., July 15-19, 2002.

Wycliffe Otieno

Consultative workshop on East African Dual Track Tuition Programmes, including the role of private higher education. Hosted by D. Bruce Johnstone of ICHEFA, U at Buffalo. Would be hosting a full workshop later in the fall.WO: Please get this to be more specific. Fall 2005.

Jointly (Kenya University, through Otieno and other professorsplanning a conference on Revitalising HE in Kenya also for fall 05. Private higher education will be on the agenda.

Juan Carlos Silas

Silas, J.C. Low-profile / Demand-Absorbing Private Higher Education Institutions and Equity in Mexico. Roundtable presentation at the 2006 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (Council for International Higher Education). November 1, 2006. Anaheim, California, United States.

Silas, J.C. Complementing or watering-down? The role of demand-absorbing private higher education in Mexico. To be presented as part of the Symposium: "Comparing Public and Private Higher Education: Cohesion, Distinctiveness and Diversity Across Sectors" at the 2005 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (Council for International Higher Education). November 16, 2005. Philadelphia, PA.

Silas, J.C. Development and perspectives of the private higher education system: Challenges and opportunities. (Desarrollo y perspectivas del Sistema de Educación Superior Particular: Retos y oportunidades) Presented as Keynote speech at the National forum on private higher education (Foro Nacional sobre educación superior particular ANUIES). November 10, 2005. Mexico City, México.

Silas, J.C. Educación superior privada en México: Heterogeneidad, crisis y perspectivas. Presented at the Fall 2005 "Ciclo de divulgación académica UDEM". August 25, 2005. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

Silas, J.C. Private Higher Education in Mexico at the beginning of the 21st Century. Presented at the Quifang International Conference on Private Higher Education. XI´an University. December 2004 Xi´an, Shaanxi, China.

Silas, J.C. Current Private Higher Education In Mexico: Are we on the right track? Presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference. October 2003. Mexico City.

Pedro Nuno Teixeira

"Markets in Higher Education: Can we still learn from Economics’ Founding Fathers?", workshop at CHSE – UC Berkeley.

" Expansion, Access and Cost-Sharing in Portuguese Higher Education", with Alberto Amaral and Maria João Rosa, 4th Douro Seminar, CIPES/HEDDA, October 2004 (Pinhão, Portugal)

"Old Lessons and New Development - Markets in Higher Education", Fulbright Brainstorms 2004 - "New Trends in Higher Education", September 2004, Lisbon, Portugal

"Expansion, Access and Cost-Sharing in Portuguese Higher Education", with Alberto Amaral and Maria João Rosa, Annual Conference of CHER - Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, September 2004 (Enschede, The Netherlands)

"Is there a Market in Portuguese Higher Education?" (with Alberto Amaral and Maria João Rosa), 3rd Douro Seminar, CIPES/HEDDA, October 2003 (Pinhão, Portugal)

" Is there a Market in Portuguese Higher Education" (with Alberto Amaral and Maria João Rosa), Annual Conference of CHER - Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, September 2003 (Porto, Portugal)

Doctoral Research Affiliates

Makoto Nagasawa

Presenter at the Symposium "The Frontier of Private Higher Education Research in East Asia" sponsored by the Research Institute for Independent Higher Education, the Association of Private Universities of Japan, and PROPHE. "PROPHE and East Asian Higher Education Research." (December 2006)

Presented at the Association of Study for Higher Education (ASHE) in Anaheim, CA. “The Role of Private Higher Education in Japan and Female Participation” (November 2006)

Presented research on "Japanese and Thai internal diversification inside the private sector", comparative education workshop, University at Albany, 3/31/05.

Presented at National Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) (March 2005). "Beyond the Public-Private Dichotomy in the Experience of Three Short Cycle Tertiary Institutions: The Cases of Japan, Mexico and the United States."

Presented at Graduate School of Education, Peking University (China). "Inter-sectoral Analysis on the Japanese Private Non-university Sector." (December 2004)

Presented at the Qifang International Conference on Private Higher Education at Xian International University (China) The theme: "Gender Stratification in Japanese Higher Education: The Private Role" (December 2004)

Participation / Assistant
Workshop participant: "Private Higher Education: Globally Shifting Tendencies." At the Research Institute for Independent Higher Education-RIIHE (Tokyo, Japan) (December 2004)

Workshop participant: "Future of Private Higher Education Research in East Asia," the National Institute for Educational Policy Research -NIER (Tokyo, Japan) (December 2004)

Conference: "Higher Education: New Scholars, Emerging Issues" at the Ford Foundation Headquarters, New York City. (April 2004)

Prachayani Praphamontripong

Presented research on "Private-Public Distinctiveness: Institutional Classification of Thai Higher Education," in a Student-led Workshop for Advanced graduate students affiliated with Ford Foundation-supported projects and centers at Boston College, University at Buffalo, and University at Albany, March 23-24, 2006.

Chaired the PROPHE special symposia on "Public-Private Cooperation and Conflict in International Contexts," ASHE Presidential Session, ASHE Conference 2005, Philadelphia. November 17, 2005.

Presented research on "Japanese and Thai internal diversification inside the private sector", comparative education workshop, University at Albany, 3/31/05.

Presented "Thai Private Higher Education: Diversification or Homogenization," at Qifang International Conference on Private Higher Education, Xi'an International University, Xi'an, China. December 14-15, 2004.

Presented "Diversification within the Thai Private Sector," at Peking University, Beijing, China. December 17, 2004.

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