My main new project and through at least 2008 concerns private higher education around the world, with grants from the Ford Foundation. While the concern is global, we have collaborating scholars in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay.   My prior research project concerned the history of U.S. assistance to Latin America in the "golden age of development," mainly the postwar period.  Published in 2005 by the Indiana University Press, To Export Progress focuses on efforts and impacts made by foundations, bilateral agencies, and multilateral banks, all working with partners in Latin America, to reform universities. 

     Meanwhile, in smaller projects, I continue to explore various issues internationally about politics and policy in higher education.  Meanwhile, Mexican politics and development remains an ongoing interest, reflected in the second edition of Mexico:  The Struggle for Democratic Development, University of California Press (with Kate Bruhn).  A recent book on higher education policy is Myth, Reality, and Reform:  Higher Education Policy in Latin America, Inter American Development Bank/Johns Hopkins Press, 2000 (with Claudio de Moura Castro).  Prior to that was Building the Third Sector:  Latin America's Private Research Centers and Nonprofit Development, University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Presently, my department has Latin American doctoral students (Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico) and I enjoy working closely with each of them.