Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Worldwide Rise of Private Higher Education

francisco Ramirez (PI)Elizabeth Bruckner （co-PI）斯坦福大学博士论文研究：世界范围内私立高等教育的兴起摘要私立高等教育是目前高等教育中发展最快的部分。私立高等教育机构（PHEI）的大规模扩张是高等教育史上一个相对较新的、有些出乎意料的现象。本文考察了世界范围内私立高等教育的发展，并提出了一个问题：如何解释私立高等教育在世界范围内的扩张？具体来说，在什么条件下，民族国家将构建教育机会的责任从国家转移到市场？为此目的，该项目侧重于国际政府组织在传播全球高等教育政策模式方面的作用。我的项目依赖于各种资源的组合：它利用各种利益相关者制定的政策文件来检查高等教育系统的主导模式。它还研究了国家预算以及国际压力对各国促进私立高等教育部门扩张的影响。最后，本文还对公立高等教育系统占主导地位的国家与主要依靠私人非营利机构和私人营利性机构的国家进行了明确的比较案例研究。这个项目将是同类项目中第一个采用定性和定量、纵向分析相结合的方法来调查促进世界各地高等教育私有化的因素。更广泛的影响本研究的发现可能会促进我们对复杂的全球化动态如何影响民族国家所追求的社会政策的理解。此外，该研究项目将产生原始数据集，不仅在学术界传播，而且在国家和国际决策者之间传播。通过收集从未汇编过的私有化年份的数据，该数据集将是对私有化对诸如获取和公平等结果的影响进行因果分析的第一步。因此，这项研究的结果将为国际和国家政策提供见解，最终可能有助于改善全球高等教育体系的准入和公平。

SES - 1130035Francisco Ramirez (PI)Elizabeth Bruckner (co-PI)Stanford UniversityDoctoral Dissertation Research: The Worldwide Rise of Private Higher EducationAbstractPrivate higher education is now the fastest growing segment of higher education. The massive expansion of private higher education institutions (PHEI) is a relatively new, and somewhat unexpected, phenomenon in the history of higher education. This dissertation examines the growth of private higher education worldwide, and asks: What explains the worldwide expansion of private higher education? Specifically, under which conditions do nation-states shift responsibilities for structuring educational opportunities away from the state towards the market? To that end, the project focuses on the role of international governmental organizations (IGOs) in the diffusion of global models for higher education policies. My project relies on a combination of sources: It draws on policy documents produced by various stakeholders to examine dominant models for higher education systems. It also examines the effect of national budgets as well as international pressures on the decisions of nations to promote the expansion of the private higher education sector. Finally, the dissertation includes an explicitly comparative case study of nations that have predominantly public higher education systems with nations relying primarily on private non-profit, and private for-profit institutions. This project will be the first of its kind to apply a combination of qualitative and quantitative, longitudinal analysis to investigate the factors that have furthered the privatization of higher education around the world. Broader ImpactsFindings from this research may advance our understanding of how complex globalization dynamics affect social policies pursued by nation states. In addition, this research project will produce original dataset to be disseminated not only in the academic community, but also among national and international policy makers. By collecting never-before-compiled data on the year of privatization, the dataset will be the first step towards conducting causal analysis of the effects of privatization on outcomes such as access and equity. As such, findings from this research will provide insights for international and national policies that may ultimately contribute to improve access and equity in systems of higher education worldwide.