Professor John Aubrey Douglass University of California at Berkeley > Keynote Speakers > Finance and Business > Invited Distinguished Scholars Participating at the Conference > Dr. D. Bruce Johnstone (Keynote Speaker)

D. Bruce Johnstone is Distinguished Service Professor of Higher and Comparative Education Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His principal scholarship is in international comparative higher education higher education finance, governance, and policy formation. He directs the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project, an eight-year examination into the worldwide shift of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students. The project has been the principal single source of descriptive and theoretical work as well as on-going research on tuition, financial assistance, and student loan policies worldwide. The Project has sponsored or co-sponsored international conferences on higher education financing in Dar es salaam, Prague, Moscow, Wuhan, Nairobi, and Arusha (the latter conferences reflecting a special project on higher education financing, tuition policies, and student loan schemes in East Africa.

During a 25-year administrative career prior to assuming his professorship at the University at Buffalo, Johnstone held posts of vice president for administration at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the State University College of Buffalo, and chancellor of the State University of New York system, the latter from 1988 through 1994.

Johnstone was the Distinguished Scholar Leader in 20007-08 of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (a group of 12 American and 32 international scholars examining higher educational access through international perspectives). In the 2006-07 academic year, he was a part-time Erasmus Mundus lecturer in higher education administration at the Universities of Oslo and Tampere. He has written or edited more than 115 books, monographs, articles, book chapters, and book reviews and is best known for his works on the financial condition ofhigher education, the concept of learning productivity, student financial assistance policy, system governance, and international comparative higher education finance. His newest book, published in 2006 by Sense Publishers, is Financing Higher Education: Cost-Sharing in International Perspective. Other books include New Patterns for College Lending: Income Contingent Loans (1972); Sharing the Costs of Higher Education: Student Financial Assistance in the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Sweden and the United States (1986); In Defense of American Higher Education (co-edited with Philip Altbach and Patti Gumport, 2001); and Financing Higher Education: Problems and Solutions (2004: translated into Chinese by Professor Shen Hong).

Johnstone holds Bachelors (in economics) and Masters (in teaching) degrees from Harvard, a 1969 Ph.D. in Education from the University of Minnesota, and Honorary Doctorates from D'Youville College, Towson State College, and California State University at San Diego.

His personal Website is at <http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/faculty/viewfaculty.asp?id=30>. The Website for the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project can be found at <http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance>.