Internationalization in the Context of Globalization

Philip G. Altbach is Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education Boston College, USA.

He was the 2004-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader for the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program, was given the Houlihan award for distinguished contributions to international education by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Bowen distinguished career award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In 2010, he was Erudite Scholar of the Government of Kerala. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Professor Altbach is author of:

Global Perspectives on Higher Education,

Turmoil and Transition,

Student Politics in America, and many other.

He also co-edited:

The Road to Academic Excellence,

the International Handbook of Higher Education,

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America and other books.

Dr. Altbach is a member of the Council of the Russian Government Program for Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities among Global Research and Education Centers, Project 5-100.