Activities
& Events
PROPHE Partner Centers & Beyond!
PROPHE
Partner Centers
Center
for International Higher Education, Boston College, has worked
in vigorous partnership with PROPHE. One example is the regular PROPHE
column on private higher education in CIHE's International Higher Education.
In 2005, the two partners co-published a book based on private higher
education pieces that have appeared in IHE. The partners are contemplating
a follow-up volume, with more inclusive higher education privatization
scope. In 2004 they published (Sense) the first ever large bibliography
on private higher education. (PROPHE has since continued the project
on its own). PROPHE welcomes further citations on work dealing with
private higher education in any country as it is working toward a further
bibliography. The latest in a series of meetings between CIHE and PROPHE
students takes place at IIE in March 2008.
Higher
Education Research Program,Peking University, has collaborated
with PROPHE on several conferences in China (Xi'an,Beijing and Shanghai).
PROPHE Collaborating Scholar Fengqiao
Yan has served on the dissertation committee for Yingxia Cao, on
Chinese private higher education and the labor market. Peking U MED
student Chunyue Zhang
is now an Albany/PROPHE Ph.D. student. Several Peking University scholars
have been involved in a World Bank and Chinese government funded project on "Minban Education in China."The study
uses case studies, interviews, questionnaires, and statistics to explore
Chinese private education from kindergarten to the tertiary level.
RIIHE
(PROPHE's Japanese Partner Center)is presently conducting research
on a variety of topics in Japanese and other private higher education,
e.g., changes in scholarships and tuition, student satisfaction, and
governing boards and management of private universities. RIHE is also
building databases on private universities' educational activities and
finance, public aid to private universities, and external evaluation
systems for private universities. RIIHE continues to conduct a vigorous
program of seminars. Collaborating Scholar Aki
Yonezawa and PROPHE PhD student Hirosuke
Honda will present a paper at the March 2008 meetings of the Comparative
& International Education Society.
The Universidad
Andres Bello, Chile, continues as a valued collaborator. PROPHE
Collaborating Scholar Andres
Bernasconi, now Vice Rector, continues to give valued counsel to
PROPHE. Andres Bello played a central role in development of the PROPHE
data project.
South
Africa: Less active in collaboration have been South African
partners. However, PROPHE Collaborating Scholar Mahlubi
(Chief) Mabizela launched the forthcoming special private higher
education issue of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa while at
the Human Science Research Council, South Africa. He has since moved
to government as Higher Education Policy and Development Support Director.
Plans are underway to revive PROPHE activities in that region with Mabizela
and Otieno from Kenya currently working on a proposal.
In addition to Africa,
there are PROPHE Regional Centers in Eastern
& Central Europe (headed by Snejana
Slantcheva) and Latin America( headed by Pablo
Landoni ).
