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PROPHE will shortly be updating its international data table and providing regional tables on Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
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Joanna Demurat and Prachayani Praphamontripong, PROPHE Doctoral Research Associates, each received an Arvid J. Burke Scholarship Award from the School of Education, University at Albany, SUNY. This scholarship is awarded to a student in an advanced graduate degree program who has demonstrated outstanding academic potential and talent.
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Dr. Julio Sanchez, Vice-Chancellor for Research and Institutional Relations at INTEC (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo) - a leading private university in Dominican Republic - visited PROPHE headquarters on May 13, 2009.
PROPHE group photo with Dr. Sanchez at EAPS luncheon. (Left to right) Lina Uribe, Prachayani Praphamontripong,Daniel Levy, Julio Sanchez, Joanna Demurat, Chunyue Zhang, and Paulina Berrios.
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PROPHE Director Levy gave a presentation on global context for the European accreditation conference in Vienna, May 7-8, 2009
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Pawal Agarwal, Indian official and scholar who has visited and advised PROPHE, has published Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future, with Sage, 2009; chapter 3 is Private Higher Education.
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At the 2009 CIES conference in Charleston, SC PROPHE Doctoral Research Associate Joanna Demurat gave a presentation on The first-second choices: What methods do Polish private higher education institutions use to attract students? Daniel Levy presented Yingxia Cao's paper on China and was the panel discussant. The panel was entitled Higher Education Expansion in a Marketization Economy. Demurat chaired the panel. |
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PROPHE Director Daniel C. Levy gave a presentation on Global Private Higher Education: Tracking and Explaining Phenomenal Expansion to the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California-Berkeley, Feb 19, 2009.
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Levy is a co-author on a UNESCO team producing a paper on private higher education for the July UNESCO World Conference on higher education. PROPHETs Bernasconi, Mabizela, and Slantcheva are among the project’s consultants.
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Akiyoshi Yonezawa has just earned his PhD from Tohoku Univesity. |
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A special issue of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa(JHEA), volume 5, numbers 2&3, is now published on the growth of private provision in Africa. Special issue editors are PROPHEts Mahlubi Mabizela,Daniel Levy,and Wycliffe Otieno.
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Private Higher Education: Global Trends and Indian Perspectives is now published by Shipra. The book’s editors are PROPHEts Asha Gupta, Daniel Levy, and K.P. Powar.
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The newest working paper is "Access in U.S. Higher Education: What does the For-profit Sector Contribute?"by Kevin Kinser. The 2008 working papers included Praphamontripong, Prachayani. 2008 "Inside Thai Private Higher Education: Exploring Private Growth in International Context” and Levy, Daniel C. 2008 "Indian Private Higher Education in Comparative Perspective." and Levy "Access through Private Higher Education: Global Patterns and Indian Illustrations.'' |
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PROPHE presented a panel at the Associate for the Study of Higher Education, Jacksonville FL, Nov 2008 on “Between Elite and Non-Elite: Exploring Private ‘Semi-Elite’ Universities", with national case studies on Mexico, Poland, and Thailand, as well as a global overview.Click here to see the details. |
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Levy’s 2008 international lectures included a Nov. presentation in Malaysia and a Jan. presentation in Israel. He also participated in conferences at International Finance Corporation Conference in May and an American Enterprise Institute Conference in June. |
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PROPHE
ran two panels at the annual Comparative International
& Comparative Education Society, Teacher's College, NYC, March
2008. One focuses on Asia, the other on Latin America, both on the
access and equity roles of "demand-absorbing" private
higher education. For the details,
please click "here." |
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Activities & Events page has been updated. |
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Special private higher education policy issue of Journal of Comparative Public Policy is mostly completed. |
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Private
Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe, eds. Slantcheva &
Levy, published by Palgrave, 2007. |
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Special private higher education policy issue of Journal of Comparative Public Policy is advancing well. |
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See enhanced International Data table, now with 92 countries, soon to be > 100. Click here.
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The
Legal Framework for Portuguese Private Higher Education is now
on-line. See "National Laws"
for more details. |
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