Scholarly work in the international comparative study of education, master’s and doctoral concentrations in comparative education, and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE) have a long history at the University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE). The Center began in the 1980s in GSE’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy under the […]
Scholarly work in the international comparative study of education, master’s and doctoral concentrations in comparative education, and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE) have a long history at the University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE). The Center began in the 1980s in GSE’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy under the direction of Dr. Philip Altbach, one of the world’s most influential scholars and publishers in the field of international comparative higher education. Dr. Altbach left in 1994 to found the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, and leadership of the CCGSE and the master’s and doctoral concentrations passed in to Dr. William Cummings, who later went on to Georgetown University. Leadership then passed to Dr. D. Bruce Johnstone, former Chancellor of the State University of New York and a comparative scholar of the economics, governance and policy formation of higher education, and Dr. Yoshiko Nozaki, with scholarly interests in ethnic, class, and gender issues in comparative educational perspective.
After the retirements of Dr. Johnstone and Dr. Nozaki, the acceptance of new students into the master’s and doctoral concentrations in comparative education were placed on a temporary hold, although Johnstone has maintained his affiliation with the programs and with the International Comparative Higher Educational Finance and Accessibility (ICHEFA) Project and its influential website that he began in 1999 to study the worldwide shift of higher educational costs from predominant reliance on governments to being shared by parents and students. The Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education has been revived in 2013 under the leadership of Dr. Janina Brutt-Griffler, an internationally known scholar in the fields of sociolinguistics, language policy, and language education, who has taught at a wide range of institutions, including York University and the University of Vienna.
Under Dr. Brutt-Griffler, the Center will expand its purview to all of the departments of the Graduate School of Education to sponsor lectures, seminars, conferences, and research initiatives that advance this intellectual mission.
