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A Message from the Project Director, D. Bruce Johnstone


All scholarly projects have life spans, and the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project, housed in the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education at the University at Buffalo, is no exception. The core grant from the Ford Foundation, which has supported the Project since 1999 concludes in May 2007, although the extensive Project library and Website as well as many of the activities associated with the Project will continue under different sponsorship.
While I have officially retired from the University, I continues as ICHEFA Project Director, as advisor to some 12 doctoral students (many of whom are writing dissertations on aspects of cost-sharing), and in my writings and consultancies. Further continuity of the work on cost-sharing, student financial assistance, and the other dimensions of higher education finance in international perspective will be provided by Pamela Marcucci, Project Manager of ICHEFA, who will see the Ford Foundation funded project through to its end, continue to maintain the Project website at <http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance> and the extensive Project library within the University at Buffalo Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education. In addition, we will continue to advise and consult on cost-sharing and student financial assistance as we have on a recent two-volume report on cost-sharing and student financial assistance reform in Morocco and on upcoming work on student finance and loans in East Africa, and a reexamination of Japanese cost-sharing and student financial assistance and loans.
As the Ford Foundation financed ICHEFA Project winds down in the current academic year, it leaves:

  • a substantial body of descriptive and theoretical literature on higher educational finance and "cost-sharing,” much of this is available on the Website (including the key papers in Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) and also distributed through hard copies and a newly published book, D. Bruce Johnstone, Financing Higher Education: Cost-Sharing in International Perspective (published by the Boston College Center for International Higher Education and by Sense Publishers).
  • Ph.D. students from some 15 countries trained in higher education policy analysis, including doctoral dissertations and other student publications dealing with aspects of higher education finance and cost-sharing in Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Latvia, China, India and the United States.
  • Further capacity building through fellowships for visiting scholars and advanced graduate students from Argentina, the Czech Republic, Chile, China, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Mongolia, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, the Ukraine and Vietnam.
  • Successful conferences in Buffalo, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Prague, Moscow, and Wuhan on the technically complex and politically contested concept of "cost sharing" in East Africa, Central Europe, Russia, and China.
  • The most complete, compilation of country descriptions (some 45) of the higher education costs borne by parents and students world wide on the Project website.
  • An annotated library of resources (presently over 500 pieces) on the topics of higher education finance, tuition policies, student financial assistance, student loans, and related topics, mainly in international comparative perspective.

So, we will continue our interest and our work in higher education finance, and especially in tuition and financial assistance policies world wide.

                        D. Bruce Johnstone
                        Project Director

 

 

 

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