About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Excellence in Higher Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish scholarly articles on research projects that can significantly contribute to theory development, policy and practice. EHE covers all areas of education research, with a focus on higher education management, active learning, interdisciplinary research, and with a broad Indonesian and international context. EHE aims to reach a wide range of readers including scholars, practitioners, policy makers, development partners, and students of education.

The journal’s scope is broad in both methodology and content. Articles employ a range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods. EHE contributions include analyses of education discourse, policy and practice from interdisciplinary perspectives and their implications for higher education management, policy, research, teaching, and learning.

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those manuscripts that seem most likely to meet the scope and aims of Excellence in Higher Education and our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Those manuscripts judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest or otherwise inappropriate are rejected promptly without external review (although these decisions may be based on informal advice from specialists in the field).

Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to two or three reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique). The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice, from among several possibilities:

  • Accept, with or without editorial revisions
  • Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached
  • Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission
  • Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, abides by the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access:

 

“By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

 

Researchers engage in discovery for the public good, yet because of cost barriers or use restrictions imposed by other publishers, research results are not available to the full community of potential users. It is our mission to support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in this journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license.

 

Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their Web sites prior to and during the submission process, and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.



There are no article processing charges, submissions fees, or any other costs required of authors to submit articles to this journal.

Sponsors

Established in 2007 as part of a higher education management training program of USAID's Decentralized Basic Education 2 Project, the Consortium of Indonesian Universities–Pittsburgh (KPTIP: Konsorsium Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia–Pittsburgh) is the sponsoring organization of Excellence in Higher Education. The purpose of the Consortium is to improve the quality of higher education among KPTIP member universities, strengthen the system of decentralized education in Indonesia, and provide an avenue for member universities to better network and collaborate together. Comprised of 19 universities in Indonesia and the United States, KPTIP is making a difference in providing excellence in higher education. The Consortium sponsors a number of publications, projects, an Academy for Higher Education Management, and training meetings on a variety of topics.

  • Consortium of Indonesian Universities–Pittsburgh (KPTIP)

Sources of Support

Journal History

Excellence in Higher Education (EHE) is a sustainable research initiative established with the generous support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of its Decentralized Basic Education 2 Project in Indonesia. EHE is the first English language academic journal in the field of higher education in Indonesia. EHE is sponsored by the Consortium of Indonesian Universities–Pittsburgh (KPTIP: Konsorsium Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia–Pittsburgh) and is a product of the Consortium’s continued commitment to the quality and innovation of Indonesian education. To this end the Consortium works to create sustainable national, regional, and global partnerships to meet national education reform mandates.

EHE launched its first issue in December 2010. Professors W. James Jacob, University of Pittsburgh; John C. Weidman, University of Pittsburgh; and Irwan Nasution, IAIN North Sumatra serve as Editors-in-Chief; and Professors Jeffrey A. Milligan of Florida State University and Sunardi of Sebelas Maret University serve as Associate Editors. The Book Review Editor of EHE is Professor Furqon Hidayatullah of Sebelas Maret University.

EHE encourages diverse points of view with international perspectives, creating a forum for the sharing of research on issues pertaining to higher education. The goal of EHE is to enable readers around the world to explore Indonesian and global higher education traditions and contemporary patterns in a global context, thereby promoting mutual dialogue and enriching the theory, policy, and practice of higher education.

Frequency: 2 issues per year
ISSN: 2153-9669 (print version)
ISSN: 2153-9677 (electronic version)