In this podcast, managing director Edwin Eisendrath and Philip Altbach, Director of
The Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), discuss where the activity is in international higher education. They explore how institutions around the world will education more than 200 million students by the end of the decade, offering insights into what lies ahead, including:
- The Middle East, China and India, and the unique challenges and opportunities in the development of each region’s higher education system
- The “massification” of higher education and its impact on education and economies in the U.S. and abroad
- The important work the CIHE has accomplished in its 18-year history
Philip G. Altbach is the director of the Center for International Higher Education and the J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education in the Lynch School of Education. Dr. Altbach has extensive experience in the field of comparative and international higher education. He has been elected to the International Academy of Education at the Royal Academy of Science, Literature and Arts in Brussels