Philip G. Altbach

Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor and director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He was the 2004-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader for the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program. He has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and served as editor of the Review of Higher Education, Comparative Education Review, and as an editor of Educational Policy.

He is author of Turmoil and Transition: The International Imperative in Higher Education, Comparative Higher Education, Student Politics in America, and other books. He co-edited the International Handbook of Higher Education. His most recent book is World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Altbach holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New York at Buffalo,, and was a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer on education at Harvard University. He is chairperson of the International Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Education at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is a Guest Professor at the Institute of Higher Education at Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China, both in China.

He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Institut de Sciences Politique in Paris, and at the University of Bombay in India. Dr. Altbach has been a Fulbright scholar in India, and in Malaysia and Singapore. He has had awards from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has been Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and a senior scholar of the Taiwan Government.

By section, most recent first.

Books

 Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, and Laura Rumbley, Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution. (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 2009). Also published by UNESCO, Paris.

 Laura Rumbley, Iván Pacheco, and Philip G. Altbach. International Comparison of Academic Salaries: An Exporatory Study. (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 2008.

 Philip G. Altbach, Tradition and Transition: The International Imperative in Higher Education. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007). (Also published by the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. Chinese translation by the Peking University Press.)

 Philip G. Altbach, Comparative Higher Education (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1998). Also published in Japanese by Tamagawa University Press, Tokyo and in Chinese by the Peoples Education Press, Beijing, and in Spanish the Universidad Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 Philip G. Altbach, Student Politics in America (New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction, 1997)

 (With Ernest L. Boyer and M. J. Whitelaw), The Academic Profession: An International Perspective(Princeton, N. J.: Carnegie Foundtion for the Advancement of Teaching, 1994)

Philip G. Altbach, Essays on Higher Education in International Perspective (Tamagawa, Japan: Tamagawa University Press, 1994). Japanese edition of selected articles.

 Philip G. Altbach et al. Higher Education and Scientific Development in Newly Industrializing Nations (New York: Praeger, 1989) (Asian edition by De La Salle University Press, Manila, Philippines, 1989; Japanese translation by Tamagawa University Press, 1993).

Philip G. Altbach, The Knowledge Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Distribution of Knowledge(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987).

 Philip G. Altbach, Higher Education in the Third World: Themes and Variations, (New York: Advent Books, 1987; also published by Maruzen Publishers in Singapore)

 Philip G. Altbach, University Reform: An International Perspective (Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1980).

 Philip G. Altbach, Comparative Higher Education: Research Trend and Bibliography (London and New York: Mansell Publishing Co., 1979). (Translated into Chinese and published in the People's Republic of China by Educational Sciences Press, Beijing, 1987).

 Philip G. Altbach, Publishing in India: An Analysis (New York and New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1975).

Philip G. Altbach. The Student Revolution: A Global Analysis (Bombay, Lalvani Publishing House, 1970).

Philip G. Altbach, Higher Education in Developing Countries: A Selected Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1970).

Philip G. Altbach, A Select Bibliography on Students, Politics, and Higher Education (Revised Edition) (Cambridge: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1970).

Philip G. Altbach.  Turmoil and Transition: Higher Education and Student Politics in India (New York: Basic Books, 1968).

Philip G. Altbach.  Turmoil and Transition: Higher Education and Student Politics in India (Bombay: Lalvani Publishing House, 1968).

 Philip G. Altbach, Student Politics in Bombay (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1968).

Philip G. Altbach, A Select Bibliography on Students, Politics, and Higher Education (Cambridge: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1967).

Philip G. Altbach, The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism (Chicago: Student Peace Union, 1959).

 

Articles

"Higher Education Crosses Borders," Change 36 (March/April, 2004), pp. 18-25.

(with Damtew Teferra) "African Higher Education: Challenges for the 21st Century," Higher Education 47 (January, 2004), pp. 21-50.

"Globalization and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World," Tertiary Education and Management 10 (no. 1, 2004), pp. 3-25.

"Knowledge and Education as International Commodities: The Collapse of the Common Good," Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education 22 (Summer, 2002), pp. 55-60.

"Research and Training in Higher Education: The State of the Art," Higher Education in Europe 27 (No.1-2), pp. 153-168.

"Academic Freedom: International Realities and Challenges," Higher Education 41 (No. 1-2, 2001), pp. 205-219.

(with Ulrich Teichler), "Internationalization and Exchanges in a Globalized University," Journal of Studies in International Education 5 (No. 1, 2001), pp. 5-25.

"Measuring Academic Progress: The Course-Credit System in American Higher Education" Higher Education Policy 14 (No. 1, 2001), pp. 37-44.

"Private Higher Education: Themes and Variations in Comparative Perspective," Prospects 29 (September, 1999), pp. 311-326. (Also published in Arabic, Russian, French and Spanish editions of Prospects)

"The Logic of Mass Higher Education," Tertiary Education and Management 10 (Spring, 1999), pp. 107-124. (Also published in Chinese and Japanese).

(with L. Lewis) "Professorial Attitudes -- An International Survey," Change (November-December, 1995): 51-57.

"The Dilemma of Change in Indian Higher Education," Higher Education 26 (July 1993): 3-20.

"Perspectives on Publishing in Africa," Publishing Research Quarterly 8 (Fall, 1992): 94-112.

"Higher Education, Democracy and Development: Implications for the Newly Industrialized Countries,"Interchange 23 no. 1 and 2 (1992): 143-64.

"Trends in Comparative Education," Comparative Education Review 35 (August 1991): 491-507.

"Third World Publishers and the International Knowledge System," Logos 2, no. 3 (1991): 122-26.

"Patterns in Higher Education Development: Towards the Year 2000," Review of Higher Education 14 (Spring 1991): 293-316.

"Impact and Adjustment: Foreign Students in Comparative Perspective," Higher Education 21 (May 1991): 305-24.

(With Robert Cohen), "American Student Activism: The Post Sixties Transformation," Journal of Higher Education (January/February 1990): 82-49.

"Twisted Roots: The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education," Higher Education 18, no. 1 (1989): 9-29. (also translated into Chinese and Japanese)

"The New Internationalism: Foreign Students and Scholars," Studies in Higher Education 14, no. 2 (1989): 125-36.

"Perspectives on Student Political Activism," Comparative Education 25, no. 1 (1989): 97-110.

"The Oldest Technology: Textbooks in Comparative Context," Compare, 17, no. 2 (1987): 93-106.

(With Gail Kelly), "Comparative Education: Challenge and Response," Comparative Education Review 30 (February 1986): 89-107.

"The Foreign Student Dilemma," Teachers College Record 87 (Summer 1986): 589-610.

"Center and Periphery in Knowledge Distribution: The Case of India," International Social Science Journalno. 1 (1985): 109-18. (also published in Chinese)

"Student Politics in the Third World," Higher Education 13 (November 1984): 635-55.

"Key Issues of Textbook Provision in the Third World," Prospects 13, no. 3 (1982): 315-27.

"The Dilemma of Success: Universities in Advanced Developing Countries," Prospects 12,no. 3 (1982): 293-312.

"The University as Center and Periphery," Teachers College Record 82 (Summer 1981): 601-21.

"The Crisis of the Professoriate," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 448 (March 1980): 1-14.

"From Revolution to Apathy: American Students in the 1970s," Higher Education 8 (November 1979): 609-26.

 Publishing in a Developing Regional Culture: The Case of Maharashtra, India," International Social Science Journal 31, no. 2 (1979): 328-40.

"Servitude of the Mind? Education, Dependency and Neocolonialism," Teachers College Record 79 (December 1977): 197-204.

Edited Books

Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson, eds., Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2007)

Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balán, eds., Worldclass Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). (Chinese translation by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. Japanese translation by Toshindo Publishers, Tokyo)

James J.F. Forest and Philip G. Altbach, eds., International Handbook of Higher Education. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2006. 2 volumes.

Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson, eds, Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response (Institute of International Education and Boston College Center for International Higher Education, April 1999).

Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl, and Patricia J. Gumport, eds., American Higher Education in the 21st Century (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press,2005, revised edition. First edition published in 1998).

Philip G. Altbach and Daniel C. Levy, eds., Private Higher Education: A Global Revolution (Chestnut Hill, MA: Center for International Higher Education and Rotterdam, the Netherlands: SensePublishers).

Philip G. Altbach and Damtew Teferra, eds., African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002).

Philip G. Altbach,ed., The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Middle-Income and Developing Countries (New York: Palgrave, 2002).

William A. Smith, Philip G. Altbach, and Kofi Lomotey, eds., The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education(Revised Edition). Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002).

Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, and D. Bruce Johnstone, eds., In Defense of American Higher Education (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Philip G. Altbach, ed., The Changing Academic Workplace: Comparative Perspectives (Chestnut Hill, MA.: Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, 2000).

Philip G. Altbach, ed., Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century(Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishers, 2000). Spanish translation published by Center for University Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Japanese translation published by Tamagawa University Press, Tokyo, and Chinese translation by Peoples Education Press, Beijing, China.

Philip G. Altbach, ed., The International Academic Profession: Portraits from Twelve Countries (Princeton, N. J.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997)

Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, eds., International Encyclopedia of Book Publishing (New York: Garland, 1996).

Philip G. Altbach, ed., Publishing and Development in the Third World (Oxford, England: Hans Zell Publishers, 1992).

Robert Arnove, Philip G. Altbach, and Gail P. Kelly, eds. Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).

Philip G. Altbach, ed., International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1991), 2 vols.

Philip G. Altbach and Kofi Lomotey, eds., The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).

Philip G. Altbach and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Students in Revolt (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969).