Professor and Director

Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education

State University of New York-Buffalo
428 C Baldy Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260

TEL: (716) 645-6275
FAX: (716) 645-2481
E-MAIL: wkcum@acsu.buffalo.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  comparative educational systems; international educational exchange programs
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  education policy; political economy
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  modern science and technology
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  social structure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, Center of Asian Studies, SUNY-Buffalo, 1993-1994; Project Coordinator, Harvard Institute of International Development, 1990-92; Director, Office of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1987-90; Senior Resource Analyst, National Science Foundation, 1985-87; Senior Fellow, International Relations, East-West Center, 1983-85; Project Specialist, Human Resource Planning, Southeast Asia, Ford Foundation, 1977-81; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1972-82.

IN JAPAN: 1975 - Fulbright; 1972 - dissertation research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Education and Equality in Japan (Princeton University Press, 1980); Profiting From Education (Institute of International Education, 1990); The Japanese Academic Marketplace and University Reform (Garland Publishing Inc., 1990); The Changing Japanese University (Praeger, 1979).