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Activities
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What's
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2008 |
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PROPHE
ran two tandem panels at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Comparative
& International Education Society hosted by Teacher's College, Columbia University in NYC, March
17-21,2008. One focuses on Asia; the other focuses on Latin America, both on the
access and equity roles of "demand-absorbing" private
higher education. PROPHE Panelists include
PROPHE Director Daniel C. Levy, PROPHE Collaborating Scholars and Affiliates Kevin Kinser(University
at Albany), Akiyoshi Yonezawa(Tohoku University, Japan), Juan
Carlos Silas Casillas (Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico), PROPHE Doctoral
Research Associate Prachayani Praphamontripong, Hirosuke Honda,Ancell Scheker (University
at Albany) and Joanna Demurat (University
at Albany).For the details,
please click "here." |
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Chinese
scholar, Youxiang Ke, from School of Education in Huazhong University of Science & Technology , will be in residence
for December 2007- December 2008. |
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2007 |
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PROPHE participated actively in the Association For The Study of Higher Education's 2006 Conference in Anaheim and will do likewise in the association's 2007 Conference in Louisville, as it will in the Comparative & International Education Society Conference in NYC. |
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Dr. Michael J. Offerman, President of Capella University addressed a range of issues facing Capella and other for-profit institutions in School of Education at University of Albany on September 20, 2007. |
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PROPHE
ran two tandem panels on The New Faces of Private Higher Education
in Asia and Latin America at the 51st Annual Conference of the
Comparative and International Education Society held in Baltimore,
Maryland, during February 25 to March 1, 2007. PROPHE Panelists include
PROPHE Director Daniel C. Levy, Jing lin (University of Maryland-College
Park), Jose Miguel Salazar Zegers (Consejo Superior de Educación
in Chile), Carlos Olivares (Inter-American Development Bank), Juan
Carlos Silas Casillas(Inter-American Development Bank), PROPHE Doctoral
Research Associate Prachayani Praphamontripong, Ancell Scheker (University
at Albany), and Layheng Ting (University at Albany). For the details,
please click "here." |
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2006 |
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On
December 14-15, 2006, PROPHE members participated in the Symposium
in Tokyo: Frontier of Private Higher Education Research in East
Asia, sponsored by Research Institute for Independent Higher Education
(RIIHE) with PROPHE's collaboration. Director Daniel Levy presented
the keynote speech, and the PROPHE participants were Asha Gupta (India),
Fengqiao Yan (China), Akiyoshi Yonezawa (Japan), and Makoto Nagasawa
(Japan). For the details, please click "here." |
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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. See
PROPHE Event Photos for more
detail. |
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2005 |
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PROPHE had a major presence at the Association for the Study of Higher Education conference, November 15-20, 2005, Philadelphia. Nineteen prophets participated (thanks mostly to the support of the ford foundation). PROPHE ran two special panels on private higher education and co-hosted an open reception. Summary and photos are posted |
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PROPHE hosted or co-hosted several visits in Spring 2005, including PROPHE Affiliate Pablo Landoni's visit to discuss institutional diversification in Uruguay. Joining was Jorge Balan, the Ford Foundation's head of higher education and research projects (See photos in the PROPHEA&E subsite). |
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PROPHE established a Regional Center for Latin America, PROPHELA, headed by PROPHE Affiliate Pablo Landoni. Inquiries welcome at plandoni@ucu.edu.uy. Similarly, PROPHEt Mabizela is heading the effort to build a PROPHE Regional Center for Africa. Inquiries welcome at mabizela.c@doe.gov.za |
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PROPHE's first Regional Center is on Eastern & Central Europe (www.prophecee.net). |
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2004 |
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On
March 21-22 PROPHE hosted Affiliate Pablo Landoni from the Catholic
University of Uruguay. Landoni presented on the Private-Public Mix
in Uruguay. On the 21st PROPHE joined in the visit of Sarah González,
Vice Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of the Dominican
Republic, for a special private-public session. On the 22nd, we hosted
Jorge Balán, the Ford Foundation's head of higher education
and research projects. Balán spoke about his portfolio of international
and U.S. higher education programs. The visitors held extensive separate
sessions with the doctoral students of PROPHE and CIEPP. |
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On
March 31,2004 PROPHEt doctoral students presented at a special workshop on
"Inside Asian Private Sectors." Makoto
Nagasawa addressed gender differences in Japan; while Prachayani
Praphamontripong presented on religious, elite, demand-absorbing,
and hybrid subsectors in Thailand. |
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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 the Ford Foundation/China, Xi'an International
University, and PROPHE. (See photos in the PROPHEA&E subsite of PROPHEts visit China and Japan 2004). Each of the PROPHEts also gave presentations
at the PROPHE Partner Center at Peking University. |
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In Dec 2004,Director
Levy gave several papers in Japan, including at PROPHE's RIIHE
Partner Center. He and PROPHE doctoral student Makoto
Nagasawa engaged with colleagues in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto. |
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Five PROPHEts
attended a CHER
privatization conference held at CHEPS, University Twente, the
Netherlands, September 2004. |
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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 and beyond are being assembled for a book
volume (Palgrave/MacMillan), ed Snejana
Slantcehva and Daniel C. Levy. |
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PROPHE hosted
visits and conferences in 2004, including: The President and the
Research Director of CICU, the association of New York State nonprofit
higher education institutions, October; Xiamen University professor
Qiuheng Shi, June on Chinese partnerships, Harvard visiting scholar Simon
Schwartzman, May, on Brazil's new growth forms, PROPHE Affiliate
Asha Gupta and also
Professor Sanford Levine, ex Chief Counsel of the State University
of New York system, on the courts, March, and PROPHE Collaborating
Scholars Akiyoshi Yonezawa
and Dmitry Suspitsin
February, on Japan and Russia. |
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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. |
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2003 |
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Parth
Sarwate, from the Ford Foundation in Delhi, India, gave a presentation
at PROPHE (September 24, 2003) on "Current Issues in Indian Private
Higher Education Growth." Sarwate is preparing a background paper
for a major conference Ford will host in India with key actors involved
in policy decisions about privatization in higher education. |
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PROPHE
co-hosted a conference "Privatization & Privatization,"
Jan. 29-30 on the dual phenomena of private higher education and the
privatization within public higher education, in both India and Uruguay.
Presenters were Asha Gupta,
Political Science, Bharati College, University of Delhi, and Pablo
Landoni, Provost's Office, Catholic University of Uruguay, with
Daniel Levy, PROPHE director,
as discussant. A week later, PROPHE hosted Professor Daguang Wu, vice-director
of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, Xiamen University and
now Fulbright Scholar, Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley.
Wu's presentation was on "Key Areas of Research in Chinese
Private Higher Education," with Yingxia
Cao, PROPHE doctoral research associate, as discussant. |
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The
Centre for the Study of Higher Education (formerly Education Policy
Unit), University of the Western Cape, South Africa, is PROPHE's newest
Partner Center. CSHE professors
George Subotzky (Director) and Bev Thaver will work with PROPHE and
its South African Collaborative Scholar, Mahlubi
Mabizela. |
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PROPHE
helped finance and participated actively in the conference "Advancing
the Institutional Research Agenda in Education", and ran
its own meetings with its core members, foreign visitors, and new
doctoral students in the Department of Educational Administration
& Policy Studies. September 18-23 at the University at Albany,
SUNY. |
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In
cooperation with its Boston College partner,
PROPHE continues publishing a regular column in International
Higher Education, the last pieces on China and Chile, and
the next one on Russia. |
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EdInvest
of IFC (International Financial Corporation) has devoted attention
to private higher education in its EdInvest Newsletters. |
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See
PROPHE's brochure.
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