The Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education

The Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE) is a GSE-wide umbrella for coordinating the courses, academic programs, visiting scholars, and scholarly activities of the GSE faculty and students interested in international comparative and global studies in education. The Center provides occasional "brown bag" seminars, as well as a forum for the international (and the "internationally - interested" US) students in the Graduate School of Education. It publishes occasional newsletters, and maintains a library with comparative education references. It also provides a home for visiting scholars.

The Center also houses GSE's principal funded research project in comparative education, the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project. This is a six-year Ford Foundation-financed project that is compiling a worldwide database on the shift of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students, as well as the array of government and non-governmental policies designed to maintain higher educational accessibility in the face of this shift. In the 2001, this program has hosted visiting scholars from Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, and Canada, as well as Semester-long visits from Graduate Fellows of the Project from the Project's partner centers in China and Russia.