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Philip G. Altbach is an American author, researcher and former professor at Boston College, and the founding director of the Boston College Center for International Higher Education.
Altbach has held additional academic appointments, including visiting associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley (1981), visiting professor in the School of Education and visiting senior scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1988–1989), senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1992–1996), Fulbright research professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Bombay, India (1968), and senior Fulbright scholar in Singapore and Malaysia (1983). In 2006–2007, Altbach was the Distinguished Scholar Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars program. He holds guest professor appointments from two universities in China, Peking University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He created and directed the Bellagio Publishing Network, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a forum devoted to improving book publishing in Africa from 1992 to 2000.
Altbach has been the editor for International Higher Education (1994 to present) and associate editor of the American Education Research Journal since 2008. Further, he has been editor of the Comparative Education Review (1978–1988), editor of the Review of Higher Education (1996–2004) and North American editor of Higher Education (1976–1992), and was a founding editor of Educational Policy (1985–2004).
He has authored or edited more than 50 books on topics ranging from higher education to India’s publishing industry to student activism.http://www.bc.edu/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2011/topstories/altbach111711.html Connecting Societies and Cultures through Education BC’s Philip Altbach has made the study of higher ed his life’s work Some of his books include: Turmoil and Transition: The International Imperative in Higher Education, Comparative Higher Education, and Student Politics in America. He is co-editor the International Handbook of Higher Education, The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities, Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries, and World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America.
Altbach's contribution to the field of international education has been widely recognized, particularly in relation to topics such as the academic profession, internationalization of higher education, academic mobility, and linking academic research to policy practice. Moreover, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on student politics and activism in the 20th century.Luescher, Thierry M. (2018). Altbach's Theory of Student Activism in the Twentieth Century: Ten Propositions that Matter. In Jodi Burkett (Ed.) Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry M. (2015). Theorising Student Activism in and beyond the 20th century: The Contribution of Philip G Altbach. In: Klemenčič, M., Bergan, S., and Primožič, R. (Eds.), Student engagement in Europe: Society, Higher Education and Student Governance. Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 20. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
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