America’s Higher Education: My Journey as a Taiwanese Immigrant Woman Faculty

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Huang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Woman ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Woman Faculty ◽  
The Us ◽  
Conducting Research

AbstractIn this article, I apply a critical autoethnographic approach to frame my experience as a Taiwanese immigrant woman faculty in the US higher educational institutions where I served and continue to serve. I describe how I developed research agendas to produce knowledge as a means to diversify our understanding of minorities. Conducting research in rapidly changing Chinese ethnic communities with an intent to include other immigrant groups and produce cross-ethnic understanding with other researchers in digital media proved to be incompatible with the current conditions of the tenure-granting process at CUNY, and my application for tenure was denied. However, I contested the decision; and after winning my case, I engaged in institutional research on the roles of Asian American faculty in leadership in the system. I conclude that hiring and retention of diverse faculty and engaging in activism are ways to maintain academic rigor for the system.

Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Joyce Lu
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
White Hegemony

Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College examines the production of an Asian American hip-hop musical, directed by the author, at a private liberal arts college in the US. This article demonstrates how the production process was determined by the complex history of racial formation and relations in America. Those who were extremely attached to standardized Eurocentric practices of control in education could only read this complexity as disorder and found the process to be out of control or anarchic. The author claims, however, that the process was necessarily anarchic insofar as the production was undertaken as a decolonizing project; an attempt to undermine structures of domination and employ an ethical and democratic way of working that directly conflicted with the violent constraints of White hegemony that are present in elite educational institutions.

scholarly journals Students’ learning can be enhanced via Centres of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A quick view all over the world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Asimakopoulos ◽  
Thanassis Karalis ◽  
Katerina Kedraka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
University Population ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This paper studies the Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL) of the 100 top Universities in the world and investigates their role and services. The vast majority of these Centers is located in educational institutions of the US, the UK, Australia and Canada. CTL services cover many areas and target several portions of the university population. They try to meet contemporary requirements and aim to enhance teaching, learning and research processes.

To MOOC or not to MOOC?

2014 ◽  
pp. 210-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Tømte ◽  
Arne Fevolden ◽  
Dorothy Sutherland Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
National Context ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

Inspired by examples in the US and Europe, many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Norway are exploring how they can use Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and other technologies to shape the classrooms of the future. This chapter briefly reviews expectations of MOOCs including both xMOOCs and cMOOCs and what they might do for higher education in a national context. Thereafter, it considers the development of MOOCs in relation to theories of disruptive technologies and national adoptions and/or adjustments to MOOCs. In this, the authors examine how Norwegian educational institutions are utilizing digital technology to support various solutions of online learning to address educational challenges. This approach is relevant as it serves as an example of how countries around the world explore the new possibilities that come with the MOOCs and other ubiquitous technologies and how they relate these to their existing organization of higher education.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Iranian TEFL Postgraduate Candidates’ Research Productivity: A Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Reihanne Yousefi ◽  
Abdorreza Tahriri ◽  
Maryam Danaye Tous
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Motivational Influences ◽  
Conducting Research

Developing research performance has become an important theme in Iranian higher educational institutions as other national and international academic institutions across the world. However, the research performance of Iranian Teaching English as a Foreign Language postgraduate candidates has been argued to be limited. In order to increase their research productivity and develop their capacity in this regard, the first critical step is to understand the influences which are associated with their academic research performance. This qualitative study focuses on a group of TEFL postgraduate candidates from five major Iranian universities with the purpose of investigating the motivational influences in conducting research, their perception of research value, and their understanding of research environment which is required for research productivity. Interviews were conducted with 20 candidates from the sample universities. It was revealed that the research related activities and efforts of the participants were driven by both external and internal needs and motivations. A multi-dimensional value was accorded to research; however, the academic research environment and requirements were the subject of various concerns. The results of this study offer several future implications for departmental and institutional research administrators to further support TEFL postgraduate candidates’ research development.

scholarly journals South Asian American Visual Culture and Representation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bakirathi Mani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Contributions ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
The Us

South Asian American visual culture is a diverse field of visual art, created by artists who are first-, second- and third-generation immigrants from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, among other diasporic locations (e.g., Kenya). South Asian American artists work in a range of media forms, including photography, sculpture, installation, video, painting, and drawing. Collectively, these artworks are frequently exhibited in museums and galleries as depictions of contemporary South Asian immigrant life. However, a close reading of individual works produces a more dynamic picture. Instead of viewing South Asian American visual culture solely in terms of artists’ own immigrant biographies, scholarship and museum practices have begun to focus on how its aesthetic and political contributions have been central to the representation of racialized, gendered, and sexualized immigrant bodies in the United States since the turn of the millennium. Drawing across archival collections, aesthetic histories, and digital media forms, artists create works that link the colonial documentation of “native” bodies on the subcontinent with the surveillance and documentation of immigrant bodies by the US state. Alongside artists, academics and activists also work to produce curatorial interventions through exhibitions that generate feminist and queer critiques of the relation between nation-state and diaspora. Emphasizing the transnational ties of capital and labor that bind together the subcontinent with the United States, South Asian American visual culture creates new frameworks for the relationship between race, visuality, and representation.

scholarly journals Analysis and Short Presentation of Study on Motivational Salience and Satisfaction with Training in the Field of Security and Defence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elitsa Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
National Level ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Motivational Salience ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Scientific Subject ◽  
The Military

<b>Purpose:</b> The purpose of the article is a presentation and an analysis of research on motivational salience and satisfaction with training in the field of security and defense that was carried out with the assistance of a number of universities and academies in Europe. <b>Method</b>: Survey research and statistical analysis including, and certain statistical methods were applied for processing of the grouped statistical data, their interpretation and offering of the relevant decisions. <b>Results:</b> The study attempts to outline the foundation of the methodology for conducting research on motivational salience and its relation with satisfaction in security and defense training, following the example of higher education institutions in Europe. The research findings are characterized by the scale of scientific and practical research and covering 19 educational institutions in the field of security and defense in Europe. The research is distinguished by the presence of a scientific subject not only at the national level but also at the international level. The results are in the area of interest to the academic staff of the military universities and academies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, and others. <b>Conlusion/findings:</b> The study was discussed at the extended scientific board of the Logistics of the Security Department at the Vasil Levski National Military University in Bulgaria. The thesis that has been elaborated as a result of carried out works was the subject of the defense in the Security and Defence area of higher education in Bulgaria.

scholarly journals New didactic solutions in conditions of higher education digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (118) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Larisa N. Danilova ◽  
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Veronika E. Gaibova ◽  
Aleksander M. Khodyrev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Future Of Education

The development of digital technologies leads to increasing of their distribution and spread in various areas of everyday life. One of those areas is education. It endures impact of digitalization, while trying to develop students' competencies needed for life in a digital society, and to adapt the capabilities of digital devices to their interests and needs. Their using in pedagogical practice depends directly not only on the educational institutions, but also on the teacher himself. Universities have been interested in E-learning elements since the early 2000s, but COVID-2019 has urged many of them to step up their work, which resulted to active creation of an E-learning environment. At the same time, many teachers feel insecure in the digital educational environment, have a view of possibilities of digital media and programs, their advantages in organizing lectures, seminars, practical classes and homework. It is obvious that digitalization of education is the future of education, and therefore teachers need to be informed and enlightened. The purpose of this article is to analyze a number of didactic aspects in digital education applied to universities. The paper shows the advantages and threats of such educational technologies, and shows the features of their application in higher education using specific universal examples. The authors note that despite the abundance of theoretical works on this topic in the world, there are very few empirical studies comparing separate models of digital learning with traditional ones, and their results are very contradictory. However, although the higher effectiveness of distance learning is not clearly proven, traditional didactic practices in higher education need to be modernized, and digital concepts will be improved to overcome their shortcomings.

Establishing Successful Partnerships

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don M. Blandin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
University Industry

Against the background of the cost crisis in US educational institutions and the changing nature of the global economy and international competition, both of which factors are acting as accelerating forces in the establishment and development of industry–higher education partnerships, Don Blandin sets out five key criteria that are fundamental to the evolution of successful partnerships. He then tests these criteria in the context of the efforts of the US Business–Higher Education Forum to establish relationships with and encourage university–industry cooperation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The article offers insights into the working of industry–education relationships in general as well as the challenge and opportunity inherent in exchanging experience across political, economic and social cultures.

scholarly journals Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Gurin ◽  
Eric Dey ◽  
Sylvia Hurtado ◽  
Gerald Gurin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Cooperative Institutional Research Program ◽  
The University

In the current context of legal challenges to affirmative action and race-based considerations in college admissions, educators have been challenged to articulate clearly the educational purposes and benefits of diversity. In this article, Patricia Gurin, Eric Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin explore the relationship between students' experiences with diverse peers in the college or university setting and their educational outcomes. Rooted in theories of cognitive development and social psychology, the authors present a framework for understanding how diversity introduces the relational discontinuities critical to identity construction and its subsequent role in fostering cognitive growth. Using both single- and multi-institutional data from the University of Michigan and the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, the authors go on to examine the effects of classroom diversity and informal interaction among African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and White students on learning and democracy outcomes. The results of their analyses underscore the educational and civic importance of informal interaction among different racial and ethnic groups during the college years. The authors offer their findings as evidence of the continuing importance of affirmative action and diversity efforts by colleges and universities, not only as a means of increasing access to higher education for greater numbers of students, but also as a means of fostering students' academic and social growth.

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