Book review: Gregorutti, G., & Delgado, J. E. (Eds.). (2015). Private universities in Latin America: Research and innovation in the knowledge economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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  • Dante J Salto National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ehe.2016.141

Abstract

Established on a Napoleonic, professional training mission, universities in Latin America have not centered their activities in conducting research. This statement applies to traditional public universities, though Latin America’s leading universities boast some research tradition. Contemporary worldwide trends such as the increased economic value of knowledge, the demand of private firms to develop research and innovation, the multiplication of accountability stages, and the rise of new modes of academic activity have led public and private universities in Latin America to increase their research footprint. In most cases, public universities have driven this push. Private universities, rather than developing comprehensive research portfolios, tend to cover niches of research that are usually funded by international agencies or other non-governmental organizations. Thus, Private universities in Latin America: Research and innovation in the knowledge economy is mainly about outliers, what we might call the research underdogs of higher education (HE), and how they have grown due to or despite public policy.

Author Biography

Dante J Salto, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

Dante J. Salto, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de Cordoba and an Affiliate at the Program for Research On Private Higher Education (PROPHE), State University of New York at Albany.

He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY), and a Licenciatura in Education from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. He pursued his Doctoral degree with a Fulbright scholarship and an Organization of American States (OAS) fellowship. He is an active member of academic societies such as the Comparative and International Education Society (US-based), where he has chaired the New Scholars Committee for two years and has edited the Latin American section of the Higher Education SIG’s newsletter.

His research interest focuses on Latin American and Argentine higher education policy in a comparative perspective, mainly on issues related to graduate education, state regulation, public and private distinctions, privatization, internationalization, and quality assurance processes. Besides his teaching and research experience, he has also held academic and administrative positions to manage international cooperation programs at the graduate level with prestigious universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

He has published journal articles on internationalization of higher education in Latin America, accreditation, and regulation of graduate education. He has recently published an entry on “Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Systems and Research” in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition) edited by Elsevier.

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2016-10-18

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Vol. 7 No. 1&2 (2016)

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Book Reviews

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