The Program for Research on Private Higher Education
Dedicated to Building Knowledge about Private Higher Education around the World
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    Dedicated to Building Knowledge about Private Higher Education around the World
    PROPHE - Program for Research on Private Higher Education seeks to build knowledge about private higher education around the world. PROPHE neither represents nor promotes private higher education. Its main mission is scholarship, which, in turn, should inform public discussion and policymaking. Founded in 2000, PROPHE received multiple Ford Foundation grants through 2008. It presently functions on the voluntary efforts of its members, along with indirect funding from the University at Albany. We welcome inquiries.

PROPHE RELEASES ITS GLOBAL DATASET

For Details, see the website’s new Global Data.

For Notice in the Times Higher Education, see here.

For the First Published Journal Article analyzing the Data, see here.

Progress of Ongoing Projects

Global data: PROPHE is almost ready to extend its 2000-2010 database to 2015.

Country data & law analysis.Turkey added to the country data cases and Brazil, Peru, and Ethiopia added to the law analysis cases. The Philippines will soon be added to both compendia. See Country Data and Laws on Private Higher Education.

Regular contributions to International Higher Education. The most recent entry is a Special Focus on For-profits and Nonprofits in Southeast Asia. Forthcoming pieces deal with family universities in Ethiopia, COVID-19, and for-profits in Latin America. 

PHE in the NEWS: A Compilation of over 3,000 News Reports on Private Higher Education Globally.

Director Levy  continues writing his book A World of Private Higher Education.

News & Activities

WORKING PAPER ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON PHE. See here. 

Keynote on PHE. Director Levy presented the First Senator Edgardo J. Angara Keynote Lecture at a national education conference in Pasay City, Philippines, addressing "Philippine Private Higher Education in Regional and Global Perspective" (December 3, 2019).

Conference Panels. PROPHE held a panel "(Re)imagining policy models and their influence on intersectoral (public-private) distinctiveness" at ASHE (November 2019). PROPHE also presented a special panel on the for-profit/nonprofit distinction at CIES (April 2019).

Membership Expansion. PROPHE has expanded and reconfigured its membership.

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