Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs

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Higher education is often considered a local affair. Yet in reality it is a grand, worldwide enterprise. Here is the first effort to describe higher education on a global scale, mapping the rapidly growing field of higher education on both a national and international level by examining programs, training centers, and publications. Examined are the programs and centers focused on training for administrative and other professional university positions, as well as research centers studying higher education. A substantive essay assesses the state of higher education research worldwide. One hundred eighty-seven centers in thirty-three countries are inventoried with information concerning the foci, programs, staff, and resources listed for each. A comprehensive listing of higher education journals is included. This book is unquestionably the most comprehensive resource available concerning research and training in the field of higher education, making it valuable to scholars and practitioners alike.

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PHILIP G. ALTBACH is J. Donald Monan, SJ Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He is author of Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University and Development, Student Politics in America, editor of International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development, and other books. He is editor of the Review of Higher Education. DAVID ENGBERG is on the staff of the international division at the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C. He is a doctoral candidate in higher education at Boston College and has been on the staff of the Center for International Higher Education.