Goals of the Project:

The Project, which involves the research conducted prior to the Workshop, the Workshop itself and the resultant volume, outlines three major goals. The first goal aims to enhance our understanding of the struggle of the private higher education in this region for legitimacy. We will address this goal mostly through scholarly research and analysis reflected in our presentations at the Workshop. Brief presentations by key researchers in the field of private higher education will also be invited to further inform our discussions.
The second goal focuses on analysis of existing policies (or the lack of any) for the guidance and regulation of private institutions of higher education in the region. With this goal, further strides towards addressing the more general objective of our Regional Center aiming at “data collection on private higher education in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics as a contribution to PROPHE's efforts to collate, analyze and disseminate information on private higher education world-wide” will be made. A special round-table session during our Workshop, involving all participants and invited guest-presenters, will be conducted to discuss policy guidance and regulation (central or not) of private higher education institutions in CEE countries and FSRs (comparative perspectives will be attempted) and to summarize specific recommendations for policy makers.
The third goal involves the publication of select group of papers from amongst the Workshop presentations in the first book on private higher education in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. The time between the Workshop and December of 2004 will be devoted to the revision and final preparation of the papers.