Time: 9:30am (HKT)
Date: Mar 7, 2025
Mode: by ZOOM
Speaker: Professor Daniel C. Levy (State University of New York)
Chair: Professor HORTA, Hugo (The University of Hong Kong); Professor Yonezawa (Tohoku University)
Registration link: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/fUrqdy8YSB6YPvLGPfqlFg
ABSTRACT: Asia account for some 60% of the world’s now over 80 million private higher education students. Both within Asia and beyond, this numerical explosion has involved notable differentiation simultaneously within the private sector and between it and the public sector (though with notable blurring of private-public as well). The private higher education explosion has also been intertwined with private interests beyond higher education, deeply into the economy, society, and politics.
Through comparative analysis, we can identify the most significant private higher education patterns that are broadly parallel between Asia and the world beyond, while also identifying the most salient divergences.
BIO: Daniel C. Levy is Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York (SUNY, Albany) and founder and director of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education, PROPHE. His 11 authored books include the university presses of California, Chicago, Indiana, Johns Hopkins, Pittsburgh, and 2024 Oxford for A World of Private Higher Education. Levy has also published well over one-hundred articles on higher education policy, non-profit sectors, and Latin American politics. He has received long-term and lifetime awards from the leading scholarly association of higher education studies and comparative education studies, respectively.
Levy’s talk will draw from his most recent global work (OUP, 2024) and his co-edited volume on Asian Private Higher Education (with Quang Chau and Akiyoshi Yonezawa, forthcoming 2025, in the Routledge-PROPHE book series, Global Realities of Private Higher Education).