Dante J. Salto is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Higher Education Policy and Leadership from the State University of New York at Albany, where his dissertation received the Presidential Distinguished Dissertation Award, and a Licenciatura in Education from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. His academic trajectory has been supported by several competitive fello=ships and grants, including Fulbright, the Organization of American States, CONICET, and Spencer Foundation.
Dante is a long-standing member of PROPHE and serves as Chair of the National Data and Laws Committee, leading collaborative efforts to develop national private higher education datasets and legal mappings across multiple world regions. He is co-editor of PROPHE/Routledge’s “Global Realities in Private Higher Education” book series and co-editor of Public Policy and Private Higher Education in Comparative Perspective.
His research examines how governments and institutions shape each other through regulation, organizational behavior, and policy implementation, with particular attention to private and for-profit higher education, accreditation and authorization processes, and the dynamics of access, equity, and quality in global higher education systems.
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Publications on private higher education
Levy, D. C., & Salto, D. J. (Eds.). (2026). Public policy and private higher education in comparative perspective. Routledge.
Salto, D. J., & Rabossi, M. (2026). Between pluralist-market and state steering: Public policy approaches toward private higher education in Argentina. In D. C. Levy & D. J. Salto (Eds.), Public policy and private higher education in comparative perspective. Routledge.
Salto, D. J. (2023b). The pandemic and private higher education in Latin America. In G. Gonzalez (Ed.), The resilient university: Innovation, experiences, and horizons (pp. 103–129). EDULP.
Salto, D. J. (2022a). Argentina’s private universities: Stringent regulation of a small but consolidated sector. International Higher Education, 109, Article 109. https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2022.109.17
Salto, D. J. (2022b). Do academic disciplines matter? An analysis of organizational responses to the accreditation of graduate programs by field of study and sector. Higher Education, 84(3), 569–587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00789-2
Salto, D. J. (2021a). Beyond national regulation in higher education? Revisiting regulation and understanding organisational responses to foreign accreditation of management education programmes. Quality in Higher Education, 27(2), 206–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2020.1833420
Salto, D. J. (2021b). La universidad privada argentina en la era del COVID-19 desde una perspectiva latinoamericana. Integración y Conocimiento, 10(2), 185–202.
Salto, D. J., & Levy, D. C. (2021). For-profit higher education in Latin America: Exception or precursor? International Higher Education, 106, 32–34. https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2021.106.16
Levy, D. C., Bernasconi, A., Buckner, E., Casta, A., Chau, Q., Gupta, A., Kinser, K., Mizikaci, F., Navarro Meza, E., Salto, D. J., Silas Casillas, J. C., Tamrat, W., Texeira, P., Wang, Y., Yonezawa, A., & Zilka, G. (2020). How COVID-19 puts private higher education at especially high risk—And not: Early observations plus propositions for ongoing global exploration (PROPHE Working Paper No. 20; p. 28). Program for Research on Private Higher Education.
Salto, D. J. (2020). COVID-19 and Higher Education in Latin America: Challenges and possibilities in the transition to online education. eLearn, 2020(9), 2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3424971.3421751
Adrogué, C., Fanelli, A. G., Carranza, M. P., & Salto, D. J. (2019). Las universidades frente al aseguramiento de la calidad y las políticas de financiamiento de la investigación: Estudios de caso en el sector privado argentino. Revista de la Educación Superior, 48(190), 45–70. https://doi.org/10.36857/resu.2019.190.711
Escudero, M. C., & Salto, D. J. (2019). Más mercado, menos Estado: El financiamiento de los posgrados en Argentina. Espacios en Blanco. Revista de educación, 1(29), 65–84.
Salto, D. J. (2019a). Brazil: Expanding access through private institutions. In J. Delisle & A. Usher (Eds.), International perspectives in higher education: Balancing access, equity, and cost (pp. 149–168). Harvard Education Press.
Salto, D. J. (2019b, June 18). Latin America University Rankings 2019: Market momentum. Times Higher Education (THE). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latin-america-university-rankings-2019-market-momentum
Corengia, A., García de Fanelli, A. M., Rabossi, M., & Salto, D. J. (2018). International partnerships for collaborative research in Argentinian universities. In G. Gregorutti & N. Svenson (Eds.), Innovative North-South university research partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean (pp. 203–231). Palgrave Macmillan.
Rabossi, M., & Salto, D. J. (2018). The weight of tradition: Conditions that foster and deter the growth of world-class universities in Argentina. In M. Rabossi, K. M. Joshi, & S. Paivandi (Eds.), In Pursuit of World-Class Universities: A Global Experience (pp. 91–113). Studera Press.
Salto, D. J. (2018c). To profit or not to profit: The private higher education sector in Brazil. Higher Education, 75(5), 809–825. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0171-8
Kinser, K., & Salto, D. J. (2017). For-profit higher education. In J. C. Shin & P. Teixeira (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions (pp. 1–7). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_105-1
Salto, D. J. (2017). Controversy over the role of private higher education in Latin America. In G. Mihut, L. Unangst, L. Reisberg, & H. De Witt (Eds.), The World View: Selected blogs published by Inside Higher Education, 2010-2016 (pp. 35–36). CIHE Boston College.
Salto, D. J. (2016b). The crucial presence of private higher education in Latin America. International Higher Education, 0(87), 24–25.
Miranda, E. M., & Salto, D. J. (2015). Dinámicas público-privadas en el posgrado en Argentina: Redefiniciones de las tradicionales fronteras en la educación superior [Public-private dynamics in Argentine graduate education: Redefinition of the traditional boundaries in higher education]. In V. Vidal Peroni (Ed.), Diálogos sobre as Redefinições no Papel do Estado e nas Fronteiras entre o Público e o Privado na Educação [Dialogues about Redefinitions in the Role of State and the Borders between the Public and the Private in Education] (pp. 276–294). Oikos.
Salto, D. J. (2014a). Brazil: A for-profit giant. International Higher Education, 74, 21–22.
Salto, D. J. (2014b). Governance through the market and the state: Postgraduate education in Argentina. Bordón. Revista de Pedagogía, 66(1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.13042/Bordon.2014.66104
Salto, D. J. (2014c, January 17). The for-profit higher education giant. University World News. http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140115175750863
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