Maldonado-Maldonado, Alma - Assistant Professor


Ph.D., Boston College

Research: Comparative higher education

Alma Maldonado-Maldonado is an assistant professor in the University of Arizona's Center for the Study of Higher Education. A graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where she worked at the Center for the Study of the University (CESU), the largest center for higher education research in the Americas. She earned her doctorate from Boston College: Her dissertation was about epistemic communities in the field of Higher Education in Mexico, their interconnections among international organizations such as the World Bank, and the role of experts in the policy making processes of Mexican higher education. Her research focuses on comparative higher education, international organizations, higher education policy and research and Latin American higher education policies. Maldonado-Maldonado is co-editor of two books, Private higher education: An international bibliography and Educación superior latinoamericana y organismos internacionales.Un análisis crítico [Latin American higher education and international organizations. A critical analysis]; she has published articles in journals such as Perfiles educativos and Revista de la educación superior—the journal of the Mexican National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES). She was recently invited to participate as an author is the Higher Education in the World Report 2006 organized by the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI) with the topic of international cooperation.

Curriculum Vitae:

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Higher Education

Thesis topic: The influence of international organizations in the field of higher education in Latin America: The analysis of one epistemic community in Mexico

Advisor: Dr. Philip G. Altbach

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. (1999-Present).

Master of Education

Philosophy School-Center for Studies in Higher Education (CESU),

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México City (1998-1999).

Bachelor of Education

Advisor Dr. Ãngel Díaz Barriga,

Philosophy School-Center for Studies in Higher Education (CESU),

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México City (July 1997).

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona

(August, 2004-present)

Adjunct Instructor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona (January 2004-present)

Research Assistant, Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Boston College with Dr. Philip G. Altbach (September 2000-December 2003). Main projects:

Spring 2002 to present: Collaboration in the private higher education initiative. This is a project in collaboration with Professor Daniel Levy (State University of New York, Albany). Its main goal is to provide major data bases with information and documentation related to private higher education worldwide.

September 2000 to May 2002: Collaboration in the African higher education project, working in the elaboration of two major databases: a general bibliography on African higher education and a doctoral dissertation database on the same topic. These materials are going to be part of the African higher education handbook that will be published early next year.

Research assistant at the Center for Studies on Higher Education (CESU), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Research work on three major research projects on Latin American and Mexican higher education, with the director of the Center, Dr. Ãngel Díaz Barriga ( 1997-1999). Main projects:

January to February, 1999: Collaboration in the research project: "Marginalization and exclusion of indigenous communities in Mexico: Present and future roles of higher education", coordinated by Dr. Martin Carnoy (Stanford University). The research work consisted in the processing of information and the elaboration of interviews in two Mexican states (Oaxaca and Chiapas) .

August to November, 1996: Collaboration in the research project entitled "Higher education financing and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, as a part of the Regional conference on policies and strategies for the transformation of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by UNESCO in Havana, Cuba.

June, 1995 to 1998: Collaboration in the research project: "Academics. Auto-perception and opinions on merit pay programs in Mexico. A case study in basic and higher Education", directed by Dr. Ãngel Díaz Barriga.

PUBLICATIONS

Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Cao, Y., Altbach, P., Levy, D., Zhu, H. (2004) Private higher education: An international bibliography. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.


Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2003) Investigación sobre organismos internacionales a

partir de 1990 en México. In P. Ducoing (coord.) La investigación educativa en

México. "Sujetos actores y procesos de formación", I. Formación para la

investigación. Los académicos en México, actores y organizaciones . Mexico: COMIE-SEP-CESU


Teferra, D. and Maldonado-Maldonado A. (2003). Bibliography on higher education in Africa. In Teferra, Damtew and Altbach, G. Philip (eds. ) African higher education. An international reference handbook . Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Teferra D. and Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2003). Doctoral dissertations on higher education in Africa. In T. Damtew and Altbach, G. Philip (eds. ) African higher education. An international reference handbook , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

López Segrera, F. and Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (eds.). (2002). Educación superior latinoamericana y organismos internacionales. Un análisis crítico . Cali: Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali Colección Sapientia, no. 2), 267 pp.

Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2002). El Banco Mundial y la educación superior en los países en desarrollo: Cuáles son los peligros y las promesas. Un Análisis del documento “Peligros y Promesas. López Segrera, Francisco and Maldonado-Maldonado, Alma (eds.). Educación superior latinoamericana y organismos internacionales. Un análisis crítico (pp. 167-184) . Cali: Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali (Colección Sapientia, no. 2).

Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2002) Higher education research in Latin America. International Higher Education , 28, Summer. pp. 23-25.

Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2002). The student struggle and its aftermath at UNAM. International Higher Education , 26, Winter. pp. 18-19.

Carnoy, M., Santibañez, L. Maldonado, A. Ordorika, I. (2002). Barreras de entrada a la educación superior y a oportunidades profesionales para la población indígena mexicana. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos, Vol. XXXII, no. 3. pp. 9-44.

Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2000). Los organismos internacionales y la educación en México. El caso de la educación superior y el Banco Mundial. Perfiles Educativos , v. XXII, n. 87. pp. 51-75.

Casanova, H., Díaz Barriga, Ã., Domínguez, R., López Zárate, R., Maldonado-Maldonado A., Mendoza Rojas, J. Muñoz García, H., Rodríguez, R. and De Vries, W. (2000). Diversidad y convergencia. Estrategias de financiamiento, gestión y reforma de la educación superior. México: CESU-UNAM (“Pensamiento Universitario, Tercera época), 212 pp.


Díaz Barriga, Ã. (coord.), Casanova, H., Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Mendoza, J. and López, R. (1997). Documento central. Financiamiento y gestión de la educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe. UNESCO. La educación superior en el siglo XXI. Visión de América Latina y el Caribe (pp. 643-705). Caracas: CRESALC/UNESCO, T. II (“Colecciones respuestasâ€) (English and Spanish versions).

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Rhoades, G., Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Ordorika I., and Velásques, M. Imagining alternatives to global, corporate, new economy, academic capitalism. Policy Futures in Education. (forthcoming).

Lee J., Cheslock, J., Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Rhoades, G. Professors as Knowledge Workers in the New, Global Economy.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Attendance to the IMHE General Conference 2002. Incentives and accountability: Instruments of change in Higher Education, OECD, Paris, France (September 16-18, 2002).

Papers presented in some conferences such as the Annual Conferences of the Association for the study of higher education (ASHE) or the conferences of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

Coordinator of the seminary “Public higher education and its financing in Mexicoâ€.  Some of the most important Mexican specialists such as Pablo Latapí, Rollin Kent, Manuel Pérez Rocha, Hugo Aboites, Sylvie Didou, Hugo Casanova, Teresa Bracho, Roberto Rodríguez, Vietse De Vries, among others, participated in the seminary. Philosophy and Literature School, UNAM (October, 1998).

Teaching Assistant during one semester in the course “National Educational System†at the Philosophy and Literature School, UNAM. Assisting Dr. Hugo Casanova Cardiel (September to January, 1997).

AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

Scholarship sponsored by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) to get the Ph.D. in Higher Education at Boston College (1999-present)

Complementary scholarship sponsored by the Mexican Ministry of Education:

Ph.D. Degree (2002-2003)

Student Representative at the International Seminar of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) (1997-1998)

Honorable Mention in the professional exam to obtain bachelor's degree (July, 1997).

Member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) (since 1997)

Scholarship awarded by National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to sponsor thesis research. The thesis was elaborated at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CESU). Advisor: Dr. Ãngel Díaz Barriga (1995-1996).

Scholarship given by UNAM Foundation, under the program “Scholarships to the academic excellenceâ€.  Center for Studies in Higher Education (CESU) (1994).

Personal

Citizen of Mexico

Languages: Spanish (Native), English (Proficient) and French (Reading knowledge)