Mr. Pawan Agarwal, an Indian Fulbright New Century Scholar on Higher Education Year 2005-2006 and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, visited PROPHE Headquarters and gave a presentation on "Indian Higher Education and Its Many Contradictions," October 4, 2006.
PROPHE guests joining Mr. Agarwal's presentation included Vice Provost for Administration and Planning Melinda Spencer; Interim Vice Provost for International Education Ray Bromley; Assistant Vice President for Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness Bruce Szelest; EAPS Department Chair Alan Wagner; PROPHE Director Daniel Levy; EERC Director and CIEPP Professor Gilbert Valverde, PROPHE Collaborating Scholar Kevin Kinser; and PROPHE&CIEPP doctoral students.
PROPHE Collaborating Scholar Molly Lee and PROPHE Doctoral Research Associate Prachayani Praphamontripong at the World University Presidents Summit, Bangkok, Thailand, July 19-22, 2006.
Farewell party for PROPHE Affiliate Pedro Teixeira (second-right) and Visiting Scholar Fangfeng Liu (right), Albany, NY, June 28, 2006.
Dr. Isaac N. Obasi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana, Southern African Region and Visiting Scholar at SUNY Buffalo's Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education, visited PROPHE Headquarters, June 20, 2006.
(left) Dr. Obasi met with CIEPP doctoral students: Makoto Nagasawa, Bogil Kang, Prachayani Praphamontripong, and Jargalmaa Tsendjav. (right) PROPHE group meeting with Dr. Obasi included PROPHE Collaborating Scholar Kevin Kinser and PROPHE Affiliate Pedro Teixeira.
Dr. Obasi gave a presentation on "The Sustainability Question of Private Universities in Nigeria: Ownership, Fees and the Market."
(left to right) Pedro Teixeira, Isaac Obasi, PROPHE Director Daniel Levy, and Kevin Kinser
Prof. Pedro Teixeira, PROPHE Affiliate and a recipient of Fulbright New Century Scholarships on Higher Education in the 21st Century, and UAlbany students in a seminar course on economics and policy in higher education, Summer 2006.
PROPHE meeting with Dr. Harry Patrinos, World Bank Economist, April 26, 2006.
Farewell party for PROPHE Affiliate Pablo Landoni, Albany, NY, March 2006.
Dr. Joseph Duffey, Senior Vice President of Laureate Education, Inc., and Dr. Suzanne Roddis, Manager of EdInvest, a service of the World Bank, visited PROPHE, March 1, 2006.
Two PROPHEts, recipients of Fulbright New Century Scholarships on Higher Education in the 21st Century, had been spending months at PROPHE headquarters. They were Pablo Landoni (right) and Pedro Teixeira (left). Both were participating in the Privatization course and Teixeira was teaching a course on economics in higher education last summer 2006.
PROPHE Collaborating Scholar, Snejana Slantcheva taught a seminar course on public policy in higher education, Summer 2005.
PROPHE Director Levy (middle), welcomed the Head of Higher Education Programs at the Ford Foundation, Jorge Balán (left), and PROPHE Affiliate, Pablo Landoni (right) from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay, at PROPHE, Albany, March 22, 2005.
Head of Higher Education Programs at the Ford Foundation, Jorge Balán presented "Some remarks about the Ford Higher Education Portfolio."
PROPHE Affiliate, Pablo Landoni, presented his research on "The Private-Public Mix: Uruguayan Higher Education."
Faculty and doctoral students participated in the meeting.
PROPHE members and partners participated in Conference on Legitimacy and Private Higher Education in Eastern & Central Europe, June 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sitting (left to right): Daniel Levy, Dmitry Suspitsin, Militsa Danova Standing (left to right): Snejana Slantcheva, Pepka Boyadjieva, Ginka Gicheva-Gocheva, Hans Giesecke, Wojciech Duczmal, Balazs Varadi, Ana-Maria Dima, Oleksiy Panych, Joeseph Stetar, Robert Reisz, Mariann Joe, Marine Pachuashvili, Voldemar Tomusk, James Cemmell, Boicho Kokinov, Nina Shcheglova
(left to right): Snejana Slantcheva, Balazs Varadi, Wojciech Duczmal, Marine Pachuashvili, Ana-Maria Dima,Robert Reisz, Bermet Tursunkulova, Joseph Stetar, Hans Giesecke, Ionut Sterpan, Voldemar Tomusk, Mariann Joe
Five PROPHEts attend a CHER Privatization Conference held at CHEPS, University Twente, the Netherlands, September 2004. From left to right the PROPHEts are Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Mahlubi Mabizela, Snejana Slantcheva, Carlo Salerno, and Fengqiao Yan.

 

	Xiamen University full professor Dr. Qiuheng Shi (the left) visited PROPHE and presented on Chinese private and public higher education partnerships, June 8 2004 (the right is PROPHE director, Daniel Levy).
Voldemar Tomusk presenting a talk on East European private higher education at the Institutionalism and Education conference at the University at Albany, September 2002.

	Prof. Asha Gupta (India) and Prof. Pablo Landoni (Uruguay) were featured in a PROPHE conference about Higher Education Privatization, Jan. 2003.

Prof. Asha Gupta (the right) and Prof. Pablo Landoni (the left) with Dr. Kevin Kinser (second to the right) and Dr. Alan Wagner (second to the left)