Presented with the School of Education Foundation, Discipline-Based Scholarship for Education, the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, and the Center for Postsecondary Research

Philip G. Altbach is Monan University Professor at Boston College and director of the Center for International Higher Education. He is coeditor of World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). He served as the Distinguished Scholar Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars program in 2005-06.

Asian universities are faced with the daunting task of competing in the global arena to build research universities. This discussion will focus on the structural, intellectual, and cultural problems of creating research universities in Asia and the broader challenges faced by these institutions everywhere.

(Light refreshments will be served. You are also welcome to bring your own lunch.)